Who won the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches in 2024?

Austin Eckroat won the 2024 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches at PGA National - Champion Course, finishing 17 under par.

What was the winning score at the 2024 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches?

The winning score was 17 under par (267 strokes), posted by Austin Eckroat.

How many players were in the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches field?

143 players started the 2024 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.

Tournaments / 2024

Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches

2024-02-29 · PGA National - Champion Course

Winner: Austin Eckroat
Winning score: -17
Field: 143
Field strength: +0.034 SG

The 2024 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches was played at PGA National - Champion Course, starting 29 February 2024. Austin Eckroat won at 17 under par (267), 3 strokes ahead of Erik van Rooyen. The winning card was 65, 67, 68 and 67, and the win paid $1,620,000. Erik van Rooyen and Min Woo Lee tied for second. 143 players started the event. The field averaged +0.034 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 143. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.


1	Austin Eckroat	65	67	68	67	267	-17
T2	Erik van Rooyen	66	71	70	63	270	-14
T2	Min Woo Lee	67	70	66	67	270	-14
T4	Cameron Young	65	69	71	66	271	-13
T4	David Skinns	65	69	66	71	271	-13
T4	Jake Knapp	68	66	71	66	271	-13
T4	K.H. Lee	69	66	70	66	271	-13
T4	Shane Lowry	67	67	66	71	271	-13
T9	Alex Noren	67	70	68	67	272	-12
T9	Andrew Novak	65	69	70	68	272	-12
T9	Billy Horschel	66	71	69	66	272	-12
T9	Keith Mitchell	68	70	69	65	272	-12
T9	Kevin Yu	66	67	70	69	272	-12
T9	Martin Laird	68	69	66	69	272	-12
T9	Peter Malnati	68	68	69	67	272	-12
T16	Ben Silverman	68	71	66	68	273	-11
T16	Doug Ghim	68	72	67	66	273	-11
T16	Garrick Higgo	67	65	73	68	273	-11
T16	Tyson Alexander	68	70	69	66	273	-11
T16	Victor Perez	67	66	70	70	273	-11

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 68 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Fgrade

Rank correlation: +0.030
Top-20 hit rate: 25%
Top-10 avg model rank: 28.6

Grade is this event’s percentile (4th) 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.

Player	Model	Finish
Rory McIlroy	1st	21st
Justin Rose	2nd	64th
Russell Henley	3rd	41st
Chris Kirk	4th	28th
Tom Kim	5th	62nd
Matt Fitzpatrick	6th	21st
Rickie Fowler	7th	41st
Byeong Hun An	8th	21st
J.T. Poston	9th	66th
Corey Conners	10th	41st

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

Player	Model	Finish
Justin Rose	2nd	64th(+62)
Tom Kim	5th	62nd(+57)
J.T. Poston	9th	66th(+57)
David Skinns	59th	4th(−55)
Tyson Alexander	68th	16th(−52)
Mark Hubbard	18th	64th(+46)
Victor Perez	62nd	16th(−46)
Nico Echavarria	67th	21st(−46)
S.H. Kim	25th	67th(+42)
Jake Knapp	45th	4th(−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 PGA National - Champion Course 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 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches in 2024?: Austin Eckroat won the 2024 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches at PGA National - Champion Course, finishing 17 under par.
Where was the 2024 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches played?: The 2024 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches was played at PGA National - Champion Course, starting 29 February 2024.
What was the winning score at the 2024 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches?: The winning score was 17 under par (267 strokes), posted by Austin Eckroat.
How many players were in the Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches field?: 143 players started the 2024 Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches. 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.