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ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP

2021-10-21 · ACCORDIA GOLF Narashino Country Club

Winner
Hideki Matsuyama
Winning score
-15
Field
76
Field strength
+0.157 SG

The 2021-2022 ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP was played at ACCORDIA GOLF Narashino Country Club, starting 21 October 2021. Hideki Matsuyama won at 15 under par (265), 5 strokes ahead of Brendan Steele. The winning card was 64, 68, 68 and 65, and the win paid $1,791,000. Brendan Steele and Cameron Tringale tied for second. 76 players started the event. The field averaged +0.157 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 74% 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 76. 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 75 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Bgrade
Rank correlation
+0.376
Top-20 hit rate
45%
Top-10 avg model rank
13.5

Grade is this event’s percentile (77th) 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
Xander Schauffele1st28th
Hideki Matsuyama2nd1st
Collin Morikawa3rd7th
Cameron Tringale4th2nd
Joaquin Niemann5th28th
Chris Kirk6th48th
Adam Schenk7th28th
Tommy Fleetwood8th7th
Rickie Fowler9th44th
Emiliano Grillo10th73rd

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Takumi Kanaya72nd7th(65)
Emiliano Grillo10th73rd(+63)
Shugo Imahira74th18th(56)
Doc Redman21st75th(+54)
Brendon Todd12th62nd(+50)
Wesley Bryan24th71st(+47)
Chris Kirk6th48th(+42)
Chan Kim53rd15th(38)
Yuki Inamori73rd35th(38)
Rickie Fowler9th44th(+35)

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 ACCORDIA GOLF Narashino Country Club in Chiba, JPN. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP in 2021-2022?

Hideki Matsuyama won the 2021-2022 ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP at ACCORDIA GOLF Narashino Country Club, finishing 15 under par.

Where was the 2021-2022 ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP played?

The 2021-2022 ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP was played at ACCORDIA GOLF Narashino Country Club, starting 21 October 2021.

What was the winning score at the 2021-2022 ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP?

The winning score was 15 under par (265 strokes), posted by Hideki Matsuyama.

How many players were in the ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP field?

76 players started the 2021-2022 ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP. 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.