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Tournaments / 2019-2020

The American Express

2020-01-16 · Pete Dye Stadium Course

Winner
Andrew Landry
Winning score
-26
Field
155
Field strength
-0.048 SG

The 2019-2020 The American Express was played at Pete Dye Stadium Course, starting 16 January 2020. Andrew Landry won at 26 under par (262), 2 strokes ahead of Abraham Ancer. The winning card was 66, 64, 65 and 67, and the win paid $1,206,000. Abraham Ancer finished second, and Scottie Scheffler was third. 155 players started the event. The field averaged -0.048 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 155. 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
+0.163
Top-20 hit rate
35%
Top-10 avg model rank
33.3

Grade is this event’s percentile (16th) 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
Sungjae Im1st10th
Rickie Fowler2nd10th
Paul Casey3rd21st
Vaughn Taylor4th43rd
Rory Sabbatini5th48th
J.T. Poston6th37th
Tony Finau7th14th
Andrew Putnam8th10th
Ryan Moore9th6th
Russell Knox10th37th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Sebastian Cappelen72nd6th(66)
Brian Stuard14th72nd(+58)
Grayson Murray65th10th(55)
Michael Gligic73rd21st(52)
Tom Hoge54th6th(48)
Chase Seiffert67th21st(46)
Troy Merritt23rd68th(+45)
Sam Burns51st6th(45)
Rory Sabbatini5th48th(+43)
Scott Piercy18th61st(+43)

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 Pete Dye Stadium Course in La Quinta, California, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the The American Express in 2019-2020?

Andrew Landry won the 2019-2020 The American Express at Pete Dye Stadium Course, finishing 26 under par.

Where was the 2019-2020 The American Express played?

The 2019-2020 The American Express was played at Pete Dye Stadium Course, starting 16 January 2020.

What was the winning score at the 2019-2020 The American Express?

The winning score was 26 under par (262 strokes), posted by Andrew Landry.

How many players were in the The American Express field?

155 players started the 2019-2020 The American Express. 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.