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CIMB Classic

2018-10-11 · TPC Kuala Lumpur

Winner
Marc Leishman
Winning score
-26
Field
74
Field strength
+0.132 SG

The 2018-2019 CIMB Classic was played at TPC Kuala Lumpur, starting 11 October 2018. Marc Leishman won at 26 under par (262), 5 strokes ahead of Bronson Burgoon. The winning card was 68, 62, 67 and 65, and the win paid $1,260,000. Bronson Burgoon, Chesson Hadley and Emiliano Grillo tied for second. 74 players started the event. The field averaged +0.132 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 80% 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 74. 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 74 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Dgrade
Rank correlation
+0.246
Top-20 hit rate
60%
Top-10 avg model rank
22.9

Grade is this event’s percentile (38th) 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
Justin Thomas1st5th
Paul Casey2nd13th
Marc Leishman3rd1st
Louis Oosthuizen4th5th
Kevin Na5th19th
Brandt Snedeker6th66th
Kyle Stanley7th13th
Xander Schauffele8th25th
Gary Woodland9th5th
Ryan Moore10th66th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Shubhankar Sharma72nd10th(62)
Brandt Snedeker6th66th(+60)
Si Woo Kim70th10th(60)
Chesson Hadley59th2nd(57)
Ryan Moore10th66th(+56)
Bronson Burgoon53rd2nd(51)
Pat Perez17th63rd(+46)
John Catlin65th22nd(43)
Brian Gay26th69th(+43)
Abraham Ancer46th5th(41)

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 TPC Kuala Lumpur in Kuala Lumpur, MAS. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the CIMB Classic in 2018-2019?

Marc Leishman won the 2018-2019 CIMB Classic at TPC Kuala Lumpur, finishing 26 under par.

Where was the 2018-2019 CIMB Classic played?

The 2018-2019 CIMB Classic was played at TPC Kuala Lumpur, starting 11 October 2018.

What was the winning score at the 2018-2019 CIMB Classic?

The winning score was 26 under par (262 strokes), posted by Marc Leishman.

How many players were in the CIMB Classic field?

74 players started the 2018-2019 CIMB Classic. 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.