Course Profiles / Sanderson Farms Championship
Course Profile · Updated 2026-08-16

The Country Club of Jackson:
what wins here.

Sanderson Farms Championship · Derived from round-level strokes gained, 2022–2024–2025 · ~71 players per field

Course-fit weights
OTT 16% / 10%
APP 24% / 20%
ARG 14% / 10%
PUTT 46% / 60%
Model — the weights Divot Lab uses for this venue (data blended with course judgment, recalibrated August 2026). Pure data — derived from the historical rounds alone (top-10 vs. field strokes-gained gap per category).

What the data says

Across 3 recent editions (2022, 2024, 2025), the players who finished top-10 at The Country Club of Jackson separated from the field most through putting (60% of the total separation), with approach play second at 20%. Around the green mattered least — 10% — which is worth knowing when the broadcast narrative says otherwise.

The winners tell their own version: in 2 of the last 3 editions, the champion's best category for the week was approach play. That differs from what separates the whole top-10 (putting) — winning weeks are outlier weeks, usually powered by a hot week in one skill on top of the baseline the course demands.

Course notes: Country Club of Jackson — scoring, balanced.

How the winners won

Strokes gained per round for each recent champion, by category. The green number is that winner's best skill for the week.

YearWinnerTo ParOTTAPPARGPUTTTotal
2025Steven Fisk-24+0.98+1.05+0.94+1.02+4.00
2024Kevin Yu-23+0.51+0.65-0.20+2.17+3.13
2022Mackenzie Hughes-17-0.19+1.34+0.85+0.92+3.23
Method. Weights are derived from DataGolf round-level strokes gained: for each season, the gap between the top-10 finishers' per-category average and the field's, recency-weighted across 3 editions with a 10% floor per category, then normalized. Winner rows show per-round strokes gained for the week. The model blends these derived weights with course judgment — both numbers are shown above, and every change to the model is logged publicly in the changelog. Full methodology: how the model works.

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