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Sony Open in Hawaii

2021-01-14 · Waialae Country Club

Winner
Kevin Na
Winning score
-21
Field
140
Field strength
+0.007 SG

The 2020-2021 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 14 January 2021. Kevin Na won at 21 under par (259), 1 stroke ahead of Chris Kirk. The winning card was 67, 66, 61 and 65, and the win paid $1,188,000. Chris Kirk and Joaquin Niemann tied for second. 140 players started the event. The field averaged +0.007 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 86% 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 140. 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 73 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Dgrade
Rank correlation
+0.184
Top-20 hit rate
40%
Top-10 avg model rank
21.1

Grade is this event’s percentile (21st) 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
Webb Simpson1st4th
Daniel Berger2nd7th
Harris English3rd32nd
Collin Morikawa4th7th
Russell Henley5th11th
Adam Scott6th41st
Hideki Matsuyama7th19th
Sungjae Im8th56th
Brian Harman9th56th
Sebastián Muñoz10th65th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Jerry Kelly17th73rd(+56)
Sebastián Muñoz10th65th(+55)
Nick Hardy66th14th(52)
Marc Leishman56th4th(52)
Zach Johnson12th62nd(+50)
Sungjae Im8th56th(+48)
Keith Mitchell62nd14th(48)
Brian Harman9th56th(+47)
Nick Taylor53rd11th(42)
Cameron Smith21st62nd(+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 Waialae Country Club in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Sony Open in Hawaii in 2020-2021?

Kevin Na won the 2020-2021 Sony Open in Hawaii at Waialae Country Club, finishing 21 under par.

Where was the 2020-2021 Sony Open in Hawaii played?

The 2020-2021 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 14 January 2021.

What was the winning score at the 2020-2021 Sony Open in Hawaii?

The winning score was 21 under par (259 strokes), posted by Kevin Na.

How many players were in the Sony Open in Hawaii field?

140 players started the 2020-2021 Sony Open in Hawaii. 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.