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Waste Management Phoenix Open

2020-01-30 · TPC Scottsdale (Stadium Course)

Winner
Webb Simpson
Winning score
-17
Field
131
Field strength
+0.16 SG

The 2019-2020 Waste Management Phoenix Open was played at TPC Scottsdale (Stadium Course), starting 30 January 2020. Webb Simpson won at 17 under par (267). The winning card was 71, 63, 64 and 69, and the win paid $1,314,000. Tony Finau finished second, and Bubba Watson, Justin Thomas and Nate Lashley tied for third. 131 players started the event. The field averaged +0.16 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 85% 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 131. 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 66 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Dgrade
Rank correlation
+0.173
Top-20 hit rate
60%
Top-10 avg model rank
22.1

Grade is this event’s percentile (18th) 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 Thomas1st3rd
Hideki Matsuyama2nd16th
Webb Simpson3rd1st
Sungjae Im4th34th
Jon Rahm5th9th
Xander Schauffele6th16th
Rickie Fowler7th37th
Bryson DeChambeau8th52nd
Matt Kuchar9th16th
Gary Woodland10th40th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Hudson Swafford66th9th(57)
Mark Hubbard64th9th(55)
Max Homa60th6th(54)
Adam Long53rd8th(45)
Bryson DeChambeau8th52nd(+44)
Keith Mitchell59th16th(43)
Dylan Frittelli23rd63rd(+40)
J.B. Holmes56th16th(40)
Brandon Hagy55th16th(39)
Denny McCarthy22nd59th(+37)

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 Scottsdale (Stadium Course) in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Waste Management Phoenix Open in 2019-2020?

Webb Simpson won the 2019-2020 Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale (Stadium Course), finishing 17 under par.

Where was the 2019-2020 Waste Management Phoenix Open played?

The 2019-2020 Waste Management Phoenix Open was played at TPC Scottsdale (Stadium Course), starting 30 January 2020.

What was the winning score at the 2019-2020 Waste Management Phoenix Open?

The winning score was 17 under par (267 strokes), posted by Webb Simpson.

How many players were in the Waste Management Phoenix Open field?

131 players started the 2019-2020 Waste Management Phoenix 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.