WGC Match Play

WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play
Tournament information
Location Austin, Texas
(2016–present)
Established 1999, 19 years ago
Course(s) Austin Country Club
Par 71
Length 7,108 yards (6,500 m)
Tour(s) PGA Tour
European Tour
Format Match play
Prize fund $10,000,000
Month played March
Tournament record score
Score 18-hole match:
9 & 8 Tiger Woods (2006)
Championship:
8 & 7 Tiger Woods (2008)
Current champion
United States Bubba Watson
2018 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play
Austin
Location in the United States

The WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play is a match play knockout professional golf event which is one of the four annual World Golf Championships. The tournament is the only of the four WGC events to not be played as a stroke play event. From its 1999 founding until 2014, the tournament was held in late February. Beginning in 2015, the tournament was moved to the first weekend in May. In 2016, the event moved to Austin, Texas and was held during the last week of March. The tournament was originally sponsored by Anderson Consulting/Accenture, and in the years since, it has also been sponsored by Cadillac and Dell.

Format

The field consists of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Ranking, seeded according to the rankings. The purse for 2016 was $9.5 million, with a winner's share of $1.62 million and the Walter Hagen Cup. Prize money is official on the PGA Tour, the European Tour, and the Japan Golf Tour.

From 1999 through 2014, it was a single-elimination event. Since 2011, all matches have been over 18 holes, with extra holes if necessary. Previously, the final match was played over 36 holes. The losers of the semi-final matches play an 18-hole consolation match for third place. The format was a five-day, six-match tournament starting on Wednesday. For the first four days (Wednesday through Saturday) a single round of matches were played, with the semi-finals, third-place match and final played on Sunday. When the final was 36 holes, the quarter-finals and semi-finals were both played on Saturday.

Beginning in 2015, the championship starts with pool play, with 16 groups of four players playing round-robin matches, Wednesday through Friday. The winners of each group advance to a single-elimination bracket on the weekend, with the round of 16 and quarterfinals on Saturday, including live prime-time quarterfinals coverage on network television, and the semi-finals, finals, and consolation match on Sunday, with the finals reaching again into prime-time network television.[1]

Weather conditions caused schedule changes in 2005, 2011, and 2013. The start was delayed by a day in 2005, and the second and third rounds were played on the following day. In 2011, with the danger of bad weather on Sunday, the quarter-finals and semi-finals were both played on Saturday. Snow in 2013 delayed completion of the first round until Friday morning; the second round was played on Friday while the third and fourth rounds were both played on Saturday.

It is the successor event of the Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf, an unofficial match play event played from 1995 to 1998 with a field of 32. It was sponsored by Accenture, the world's largest consulting firm, through 2014. In September 2014, Cadillac was announced as the new title sponsor for 2015.[2]

Host courses

From its inauguration in 1999 until 2006, the event was hosted every year by La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California, except in 2001, when it was played in Australia at the Metropolitan Golf Club in Victoria. La Costa had previously hosted the Tournament of Champions for thirty years, from 1969 through 1998.

In 2007, the championship moved to Marana, Arizona, a suburb northwest of Tucson. It was played at The Gallery Golf Club for two years, then moved to The Golf Club at Dove Mountain in 2009, a course designed by Jack Nicklaus. The event returned to California in 2015, to TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, which had hosted the 2005 WGC-American Express Championship. In March 2015, it was announced that the 2016–19 tournaments will be played the last week of March in Austin, Texas, with Dell as the title sponsor.

YearsVenueCity
2016–19Austin Country Club[3][4]Austin, Texas
2015TPC Harding Park[5]San Francisco, California
2009–14The Golf Club at Dove MountainMarana, Arizona
2007–08The Gallery Golf ClubMarana, Arizona
2002–06La Costa Resort and SpaCarlsbad, California
2001Metropolitan Golf ClubVictoria, Australia
1999–2000La Costa Resort and SpaCarlsbad, California

Television

The high-profile event has always received network television coverage in the United States on the weekend. ESPN covered the early rounds from 1999–2006, with the 2001 edition on tape-delay from Australia. Golf Channel has held the cable rights since 2007, which includes live coverage of Sunday morning's action, in addition to weekday rounds. Network coverage was provided by ABC Sports from 1999–2006, with NBC Sports picking up coverage since 2007, with the exception of Olympic years (2010 and 2014), where CBS Sports covered the event on weekends.[2]

Finalists

Year Champion Country Seed Rank Runner-up Seed Rank Score Winner's
share ($)		 Purse ($)
WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play
2018Bubba Watson United States3539United States Kevin Kisner36327 & 61,700,00010,000,000
2017Dustin Johnson United States11Spain Jon Rahm21251 up1,660,0009,750,000
WGC-Dell Match Play
2016Jason Day (2) Australia22South Africa Louis Oosthuizen16185 & 41,620,0009,500,000
WGC-Cadillac Match Play
2015Rory McIlroy Northern Ireland11United States Gary Woodland50524 & 21,570,0009,250,000
WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
2014Jason Day Australia811France Victor Dubuisson273023 holes1,530,0009,000,000
2013Matt Kuchar United States2123United States Hunter Mahan23252 & 11,500,0008,750,000
2012Hunter Mahan United States2122Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy222 & 11,400,0008,500,000
2011Luke Donald England99Germany Martin Kaymer223 & 21,400,0008,500,000
2010Ian Poulter England911England Paul Casey684 & 21,400,0008,500,000
2009Geoff Ogilvy (2) Australia88England Paul Casey23234 & 31,400,0008,500,000
2008Tiger Woods (3) United States11United States Stewart Cink22228 & 71,350,0008,000,000
2007Henrik Stenson Sweden99Australia Geoff Ogilvy11112 & 11,350,0008,000,000
2006Geoff Ogilvy Australia5254United States Davis Love III23243 & 21,300,0007,500,000
2005David Toms United States1415United States Chris DiMarco16176 & 51,300,0007,500,000
2004Tiger Woods (2) United States11United States Davis Love III343 & 21,200,0007,000,000
2003Tiger Woods United States11United States David Toms672 & 11,050,0006,000,000
2002Kevin Sutherland United States6264United States Scott McCarron45471 up1,000,0005,500,000
2001Steve Stricker United States5590Sweden Pierre Fulke21452 & 11,000,0005,000,000
WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship
2000Darren Clarke Northern Ireland1919United States Tiger Woods114 & 31,000,0005,000,000
1999Jeff Maggert United States2425United States Andrew Magee505138 holes1,000,0005,000,000

Seed – the player's seeding in the event.
Rank – the player's world ranking at the date the seedings were determined.
Numbers in parentheses in the table are the number of wins by the golfer.

Records

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First round results:

Year Won by
higher seed		 Won by
lower seed
2014239
20131715
20121715
20111913
20102012
20091913
20081913
20072111
20061913
20051913
20042012
20031913
20021913
20012012
20002111
19991418
Total306206

References

  1. ↑ "Match Play gets new format for '15". ESPN. Associated Press. July 2, 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Cadillac new title sponsor of WGC-Match Play". PGA Tour. September 30, 2014.
  3. ↑ "Austin, Texas to host WGC Match Play Championship". PGA Tour. March 3, 2015.
  4. ↑ Harig, Bob (April 30, 2015). "Austin Country Club set to be new home of WGC-Match Play". ESPN.
  5. ↑ "TPC Harding Park to host three big events". PGA Tour. July 2, 2014.
  6. ↑ Facts and Figures - WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship

Coordinates: 37°43′30″N 122°29′35″W / 37.725°N 122.493°W / 37.725; -122.493

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