Tournaments / 2025
Hero World Challenge
2025-12-04 · Albany GC
- Winner
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Winning score
- -22
- Field
- 20
- Field strength
- +0.808 SG
The 2025 Hero World Challenge was played at Albany GC, starting 4 December 2025. Hideki Matsuyama won at 22 under par (266). The winning card was 68, 66, 68 and 64, and the win paid $1,000,000. Alex Noren finished second, and Sepp Straka was third. 20 players started the event. The field averaged +0.808 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 90% 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.
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- P1
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 266
- Alex Noren
- Pos
- P2
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 266
- Sepp Straka
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 267
- J.J. Spaun
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 268
- Scottie Scheffler
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 268
- Justin Rose
- Pos
- 6
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 270
- Corey Conners
- Pos
- 7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 271
- Harris English
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 273
- Wyndham Clark
- Pos
- T8
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 273
- Cameron Young
- Pos
- 10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 274
- Sam Burns
- Pos
- 11
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 276
- Robert MacIntyre
- Pos
- 12
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 277
- Keegan Bradley
- Pos
- 13
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 278
- Akshay Bhatia
- Pos
- 14
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 279
- Billy Horschel
- Pos
- 15
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 281
- Brian Harman
- Pos
- 16
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 282
- Andrew Novak
- Pos
- 17
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 73
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 284
- Aaron Rai
- Pos
- 18
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 285
- Chris Gotterup
- Pos
- T19
- R1
- 74
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 288
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- T19
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 73
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 288
Model score
Backtest · reconstructedOur 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.
- Rank correlation
- +0.208
- Top-10 hit rate
- 40%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 10.5
Grade is this event’s percentile (26th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Scottie Scheffler | 1st | 4th |
| Robert MacIntyre | 2nd | 12th |
| Aaron Rai | 3rd | 18th |
| Sam Burns | 4th | 11th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 5th | 1st |
| Corey Conners | 6th | 7th |
| Keegan Bradley | 7th | 13th |
| J.J. Spaun | 8th | 4th |
| Akshay Bhatia | 9th | 14th |
| Brian Harman | 10th | 16th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Aaron Rai | 3rd | 18th(+15) |
| Alex Noren | 16th | 2nd(−14) |
| Justin Rose | 18th | 6th(−12) |
| Robert MacIntyre | 2nd | 12th(+10) |
| Sepp Straka | 13th | 3rd(−10) |
| Sam Burns | 4th | 11th(+7) |
| Wyndham Clark | 15th | 8th(−7) |
| Keegan Bradley | 7th | 13th(+6) |
| Brian Harman | 10th | 16th(+6) |
| Akshay Bhatia | 9th | 14th(+5) |
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 2025?
- Hideki Matsuyama won the 2025 Hero World Challenge at Albany GC, finishing 22 under par.
Where was the 2025 Hero World Challenge played?
- The 2025 Hero World Challenge was played at Albany GC, starting 4 December 2025.
What was the winning score at the 2025 Hero World Challenge?
- The winning score was 22 under par (266 strokes), posted by Hideki Matsuyama.
How many players were in the Hero World Challenge field?
- 20 players started the 2025 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.