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THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES

2018-10-18 · Nine Bridges

Winner
Brooks Koepka
Winning score
-21
Field
74
Field strength
+0.298 SG

The 2018-2019 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES was played at Nine Bridges, starting 18 October 2018. Brooks Koepka won at 21 under par (267), 4 strokes ahead of Gary Woodland. The winning card was 71, 65, 67 and 64, and the win paid $1,710,000. Gary Woodland finished second, and Rafa Cabrera Bello and Ryan Palmer tied for third. 74 players started the event. The field averaged +0.298 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 88% 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.

Cgrade
Rank correlation
+0.256
Top-20 hit rate
45%
Top-10 avg model rank
21.9

Grade is this event’s percentile (41st) 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 Thomas1st36th
Paul Casey2nd18th
Marc Leishman3rd18th
Hideki Matsuyama4th18th
Jason Day5th5th
Louis Oosthuizen6th29th
Kyle Stanley7th66th
Gary Woodland8th2nd
Brooks Koepka9th1st
Kevin Na10th52nd

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Kyle Stanley7th66th(+59)
Stewart Cink19th70th(+51)
Scott Piercy55th5th(50)
Keith Mitchell64th14th(50)
J.J. Spaun59th10th(49)
Danny Willett71st23rd(48)
Charles Howell III15th61st(+46)
Si Woo Kim68th23rd(45)
Kevin Na10th52nd(+42)
Charl Schwartzel28th70th(+42)

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 Nine Bridges in Jeju Island, KOR. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES in 2018-2019?

Brooks Koepka won the 2018-2019 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES at Nine Bridges, finishing 21 under par.

Where was the 2018-2019 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES played?

The 2018-2019 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES was played at Nine Bridges, starting 18 October 2018.

What was the winning score at the 2018-2019 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES?

The winning score was 21 under par (267 strokes), posted by Brooks Koepka.

How many players were in the THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES field?

74 players started the 2018-2019 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES. 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.