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THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES

2019-10-17 · Nine Bridges

Winner
Justin Thomas
Winning score
-20
Field
72
Field strength
+0.239 SG

The 2019-2020 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES was played at Nine Bridges, starting 17 October 2019. Justin Thomas won at 20 under par (268), 2 strokes ahead of Danny Lee. The winning card was 68, 63, 70 and 67, and the win paid $1,755,000. Danny Lee finished second, and Cameron Smith, Gary Woodland and Hideki Matsuyama tied for third. 72 players started the event. The field averaged +0.239 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 72. 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 70 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Bgrade
Rank correlation
+0.420
Top-20 hit rate
45%
Top-10 avg model rank
17.1

Grade is this event’s percentile (86th) 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 Thomas1st1st
Tommy Fleetwood2nd20th
Hideki Matsuyama3rd3rd
Jordan Spieth4th8th
Jason Day5th31st
Ian Poulter6th16th
Chez Reavie7th46th
Kevin Na8th20th
Tyrrell Hatton9th6th
Billy Horschel10th64th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Billy Horschel10th64th(+54)
Danny Lee56th2nd(54)
Scott Piercy24th75th(+51)
Wyndham Clark58th8th(50)
Jhonattan Vegas64th16th(48)
Sung Kang69th26th(43)
Sergio Garcia19th60th(+41)
Chez Reavie7th46th(+39)
K.J. Choi55th16th(39)
Brian Stuard39th72nd(+33)

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 2019-2020?

Justin Thomas won the 2019-2020 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES at Nine Bridges, finishing 20 under par.

Where was the 2019-2020 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES played?

The 2019-2020 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES was played at Nine Bridges, starting 17 October 2019.

What was the winning score at the 2019-2020 THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES?

The winning score was 20 under par (268 strokes), posted by Justin Thomas.

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

72 players started the 2019-2020 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.