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Sony Open in Hawaii

2023-01-12 · Waialae Country Club

Winner
Si Woo Kim
Winning score
-18
Field
137
Field strength
+0.006 SG

The 2022-2023 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 12 January 2023. Si Woo Kim won at 18 under par (262), 1 stroke ahead of Hayden Buckley. The winning card was 67, 67, 64 and 64, and the win paid $1,422,000. Hayden Buckley finished second, and Chris Kirk was third. 137 players started the event. The field averaged +0.006 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 137. 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.

Dgrade
Rank correlation
+0.251
Top-20 hit rate
35%
Top-10 avg model rank
19.7

Grade is this event’s percentile (39th) 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
Hideki Matsuyama1st48th
Russell Henley2nd32nd
Corey Conners3rd12th
Brian Harman4th32nd
Chris Kirk5th3rd
Tom Hoge6th41st
Cam Davis7th32nd
Matt Kuchar8th7th
Harris English9th73rd
Maverick McNealy10th7th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Harris English9th73rd(+64)
Nico Echavarria72nd12th(60)
Kurt Kitayama21st73rd(+52)
Austin Eckroat61st12th(49)
Hideki Matsuyama1st48th(+47)
Russell Knox22nd67th(+45)
S.H. Kim56th12th(44)
Carl Yuan65th21st(44)
Aaron Rai18th61st(+43)
Patton Kizzire33rd76th(+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 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 2022-2023?

Si Woo Kim won the 2022-2023 Sony Open in Hawaii at Waialae Country Club, finishing 18 under par.

Where was the 2022-2023 Sony Open in Hawaii played?

The 2022-2023 Sony Open in Hawaii was played at Waialae Country Club, starting 12 January 2023.

What was the winning score at the 2022-2023 Sony Open in Hawaii?

The winning score was 18 under par (262 strokes), posted by Si Woo Kim.

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

137 players started the 2022-2023 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.