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Tournaments / 2018-2019

Safeway Open

2018-10-04 · Silverado Resort (North Course)

Winner
Kevin Tway
Winning score
-14
Field
142
Field strength
-0.055 SG

The 2018-2019 Safeway Open was played at Silverado Resort (North Course), starting 4 October 2018. Kevin Tway won at 14 under par (274). The winning card was 68, 67, 68 and 71, and the win paid $1,152,000. Brandt Snedeker and Ryan Moore tied for second. 142 players started the event. The field averaged -0.055 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 83% 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 142. 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 86 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Dgrade
Rank correlation
+0.197
Top-20 hit rate
50%
Top-10 avg model rank
23.4

Grade is this event’s percentile (24th) 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
Phil Mickelson1st17th
Chez Reavie2nd33rd
Lucas Glover3rd17th
Patrick Cantlay4th17th
Brandt Snedeker5th2nd
Ryan Moore6th2nd
Martin Laird7th46th
Emiliano Grillo8th41st
Bill Haas9th10th
Bud Cauley10th46th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Adam Schenk82nd14th(68)
Chase Wright76th10th(66)
Vaughn Taylor16th78th(+62)
Brett Drewitt84th25th(59)
Cameron Champ83rd25th(58)
James Hahn22nd78th(+56)
David Hearn31st86th(+55)
Jim Knous65th10th(55)
Sam Ryder58th4th(54)
Cam Davis70th17th(53)

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 Silverado Resort (North Course) in Napa, California, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Safeway Open in 2018-2019?

Kevin Tway won the 2018-2019 Safeway Open at Silverado Resort (North Course), finishing 14 under par.

Where was the 2018-2019 Safeway Open played?

The 2018-2019 Safeway Open was played at Silverado Resort (North Course), starting 4 October 2018.

What was the winning score at the 2018-2019 Safeway Open?

The winning score was 14 under par (274 strokes), posted by Kevin Tway.

How many players were in the Safeway Open field?

142 players started the 2018-2019 Safeway 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.