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U.S. Open

2019-06-13 · Pebble Beach Golf Links

Winner
Gary Woodland
Winning score
-13
Field
156
Field strength
+0.521 SG

The 2018-2019 U.S. Open was played at Pebble Beach Golf Links, starting 13 June 2019. Gary Woodland won at 13 under par (271), 3 strokes ahead of Brooks Koepka. The winning card was 68, 65, 69 and 69, and the win paid $2,250,000. Brooks Koepka finished second. 156 players started the event. The field averaged +0.521 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 55% of the players. The full leaderboard below lists every player's finish position, round scores and total to par. Every figure on this page comes from the PGA Tour's published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.

Final leaderboard

Top 20 of 156. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.

Model score

Backtest · reconstructed

Our course-fit model re-run as it would have seen this week — using only data that existed before the first tee shot — then compared with how the 79 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Bgrade
Rank correlation
+0.374
Top-20 hit rate
45%
Top-10 avg model rank
19.1

Grade is this event’s percentile (77th) against every other event we have scored — not an absolute pass mark. Rank correlation runs −1 to +1, where 0 is a coin flip and a full-field golf model landing near +0.35 is a genuine read.

Who the model liked

Its top 10, and where they finished.

PlayerModelFinish
Dustin Johnson1st35th
Justin Rose2nd3rd
Webb Simpson3rd16th
Tiger Woods4th21st
Brooks Koepka5th2nd
Rickie Fowler6th43rd
Tommy Fleetwood7th65th
Jordan Spieth8th65th
Rory McIlroy9th9th
Paul Casey10th21st

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Tommy Fleetwood7th65th(+58)
Jordan Spieth8th65th(+57)
Brandt Snedeker20th77th(+57)
Viktor Hovland69th12th(57)
Danny Willett67th12th(55)
Alex Prugh73rd21st(52)
Sepp Straka77th28th(49)
Matt Fitzpatrick56th12th(44)
Matt Wallace54th12th(42)
Emiliano Grillo18th58th(+40)

One known caveat. Player stats, form and course history are all restricted to what existed before this event. The course archetype is not — it is derived from the venue’s full history, including this edition. That flatters the model slightly and equally at every venue. How the model works.

The venue

This event was played at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the U.S. Open in 2018-2019?

Gary Woodland won the 2018-2019 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links, finishing 13 under par.

Where was the 2018-2019 U.S. Open played?

The 2018-2019 U.S. Open was played at Pebble Beach Golf Links, starting 13 June 2019.

What was the winning score at the 2018-2019 U.S. Open?

The winning score was 13 under par (271 strokes), posted by Gary Woodland.

How many players were in the U.S. Open field?

156 players started the 2018-2019 U.S. Open. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.

Where these numbers come from

Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the PGA Tour's own published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where the tour published no value, this page shows a gap rather than a guess. Full sourcing notes are on the methodology page, and every stat name is defined in the glossary.