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Hero World Challenge

2022-12-01 · Albany GC

Winner
Viktor Hovland
Winning score
-16
Field
20
Field strength
+1.118 SG

The 2022-2023 Hero World Challenge was played at Albany GC, starting 1 December 2022. Viktor Hovland won at 16 under par (272), 2 strokes ahead of Scottie Scheffler. The winning card was 69, 70, 64 and 69, and the win paid $1,000,000. Scottie Scheffler finished second, and Cameron Young was third. 20 players started the event. The field averaged +1.118 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 95% 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 20. 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 20 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Agrade
Rank correlation
+0.520
Top-10 hit rate
80%
Top-10 avg model rank
7.2

Grade is this event’s percentile (97th) 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
Jon Rahm1st8th
Xander Schauffele2nd4th
Tony Finau3rd7th
Viktor Hovland4th1st
Justin Thomas5th5th
Scottie Scheffler6th2nd
Collin Morikawa7th6th
Matt Fitzpatrick8th13th
Sungjae Im9th8th
Sam Burns10th12th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Cameron Young19th3rd(16)
Sepp Straka20th10th(10)
Jon Rahm1st8th(+7)
Tommy Fleetwood14th20th(+6)
Tom Kim16th10th(6)
Matt Fitzpatrick8th13th(+5)
Corey Conners11th16th(+5)
Max Homa12th17th(+5)
Shane Lowry13th18th(+5)
Tony Finau3rd7th(+4)

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 Albany GC in Albany, BAH. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Hero World Challenge in 2022-2023?

Viktor Hovland won the 2022-2023 Hero World Challenge at Albany GC, finishing 16 under par.

Where was the 2022-2023 Hero World Challenge played?

The 2022-2023 Hero World Challenge was played at Albany GC, starting 1 December 2022.

What was the winning score at the 2022-2023 Hero World Challenge?

The winning score was 16 under par (272 strokes), posted by Viktor Hovland.

How many players were in the Hero World Challenge field?

20 players started the 2022-2023 Hero World Challenge. 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.