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The Honda Classic

2023-02-23 · PGA National Resort (The Champion)

Winner
Chris Kirk
Winning score
-14
Field
142
Field strength
-0.175 SG

The 2022-2023 The Honda Classic was played at PGA National Resort (The Champion), starting 23 February 2023. Chris Kirk won at 14 under par (266). The winning card was 69, 62, 66 and 69, and the win paid $1,512,000. Eric Cole finished second, and Tyler Duncan was third. 142 players started the event. The field averaged -0.175 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 80% 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 142. 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 80 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Dgrade
Rank correlation
+0.223
Top-20 hit rate
25%
Top-10 avg model rank
29.0

Grade is this event’s percentile (31st) 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
Sungjae Im1st42nd
Shane Lowry2nd5th
Aaron Wise3rd29th
Chris Kirk4th1st
Billy Horschel5th42nd
Taylor Pendrith6th42nd
Christiaan Bezuidenhout7th42nd
Mark Hubbard8th42nd
J.T. Poston9th63rd
Lee Hodges10th14th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Ryan Brehm79th14th(65)
Ryan Gerard68th4th(64)
Webb Simpson12th74th(+62)
J.T. Poston9th63rd(+54)
Jim Herman65th14th(51)
Brett Drewitt80th29th(51)
MJ Daffue71st21st(50)
Carson Young76th29th(47)
Ryan Armour17th63rd(+46)
Matthias Schwab16th60th(+44)

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 PGA National Resort (The Champion) in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the The Honda Classic in 2022-2023?

Chris Kirk won the 2022-2023 The Honda Classic at PGA National Resort (The Champion), finishing 14 under par.

Where was the 2022-2023 The Honda Classic played?

The 2022-2023 The Honda Classic was played at PGA National Resort (The Champion), starting 23 February 2023.

What was the winning score at the 2022-2023 The Honda Classic?

The winning score was 14 under par (266 strokes), posted by Chris Kirk.

How many players were in the The Honda Classic field?

142 players started the 2022-2023 The Honda Classic. 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.