Tournaments / 2025
The RSM Classic
2025-11-20 · Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course)
- Winner
- Sami Valimaki
- Winning score
- -23
- Field
- 151
- Field strength
- -0.079 SG
The 2025 The RSM Classic was played at Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course), starting 20 November 2025. Sami Valimaki won at 23 under par (259), 1 stroke ahead of Max McGreevy. The winning card was 66, 62, 65 and 66, and the win paid $1,260,000. Max McGreevy finished second, and Ricky Castillo was third. 151 players started the event. The field averaged -0.079 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 75% 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 151. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Sami Valimaki
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 259
- Max McGreevy
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 260
- Ricky Castillo
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 62
- Total
- 261
- Lee Hodges
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 263
- Nico Echavarria
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 263
- Si Woo Kim
- Pos
- T4
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 263
- Andrew Novak
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 61
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 264
- Doug Ghim
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 60
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 264
- J.T. Poston
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 264
- John Pak
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 264
- Johnny Keefer
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 264
- Michael Thorbjornsen
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 264
- Patrick Rodgers
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 62
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 264
- Rico Hoey
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 62
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 264
- Sam Stevens
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 264
- Seamus Power
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 264
- Zac Blair
- Pos
- T7
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 264
- Doc Redman
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 265
- Keith Mitchell
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 265
- Mac Meissner
- Pos
- T18
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 265
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 73 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.226
- Top-20 hit rate
- 55%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 24.6
Grade is this event’s percentile (32nd) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Si Woo Kim | 1st | 4th |
| Daniel Berger | 2nd | 51st |
| Mac Meissner | 3rd | 18th |
| Denny McCarthy | 4th | 51st |
| J.T. Poston | 5th | 7th |
| Chris Kirk | 6th | 41st |
| Doug Ghim | 7th | 7th |
| Harris English | 8th | 47th |
| Andrew Novak | 9th | 7th |
| Davis Thompson | 10th | 25th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Johnny Keefer | 70th | 7th(−63) |
| John Pak | 68th | 7th(−61) |
| Max McGreevy | 58th | 2nd(−56) |
| Ricky Castillo | 59th | 3rd(−56) |
| Matt Kuchar | 13th | 67th(+54) |
| Ryan Palmer | 72nd | 21st(−51) |
| Daniel Berger | 2nd | 51st(+49) |
| Denny McCarthy | 4th | 51st(+47) |
| Antoine Rozner | 69th | 25th(−44) |
| Hayden Buckley | 66th | 25th(−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 Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course) in St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the The RSM Classic in 2025?
- Sami Valimaki won the 2025 The RSM Classic at Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course), finishing 23 under par.
Where was the 2025 The RSM Classic played?
- The 2025 The RSM Classic was played at Sea Island Golf Club (Seaside Course), starting 20 November 2025.
What was the winning score at the 2025 The RSM Classic?
- The winning score was 23 under par (259 strokes), posted by Sami Valimaki.
How many players were in the The RSM Classic field?
- 151 players started the 2025 The RSM 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.