| Tournament information | |
|---|---|
| Dates | March 21–25, 2018 |
| Location | Austin, Texas, U.S. 30°20′35″N 97°47′49″W / 30.343°N 97.797°W |
| Course(s) | Austin Country Club |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour European Tour Japan Golf Tour |
| Format | Match play – 18 holes |
| Statistics | |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 7,108 yards (6,500 m) |
| Field | 64 players |
| Prize fund | $10,000,000 €8,168,600 |
| Winner's share | $1,700,000 €1,388,662 |
| Champion | |
 Bubba Watson | |
| def. Kevin Kisner 7 & 6 | |
| Location Map | |
  Austin Location in the United States  Austin Location in Texas | |
The 2018 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play was the 20th WGC Match Play, played March 21–25 at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas. It was the second of four World Golf Championships in 2018.
Field
The field consisted of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Ranking on March 11.[1] However, the seedings were based on the World Rankings on March 18.
Justin Rose (ranked 5th on March 12, personal reasons),[2] Rickie Fowler (7th, personal reasons), Brooks Koepka (8th, wrist injury),[3] Henrik Stenson (15th, personal reasons),[4] Adam Scott (56th, personal reasons), and Joost Luiten (67th, wrist injury) did not compete, allowing entry for Kevin Na (ranked 65th), Charles Howell III (66th), Keegan Bradley (68th), Luke List (69th), and Julian Suri (70th).
Format
In 2014 and earlier editions, the championship was a single elimination match play event. A new format was introduced in 2015, and the championship now starts with pool play, with 16 groups of four players playing round-robin matches, on Wednesday through Friday. The top 16 seeded players are allocated to the 16 groups, one in each group. The remaining 48 players are placed into three pools (seeds 17–32, seeds 33–48, seeds 49–64). Each group has one player randomly selected from each pool to complete the group.[5]
All group play matches are limited to 18 holes with one point awarded for a win and one-half point for a halved match. Only one player advances to the weekend from each of the 16 groupings. After all 3 rounds are played, if 2 or more players are tied for first place in their group, then they play a sudden-death stroke play playoff, beginning on hole 1 and moving beyond if necessary.[5]
The winners of each group advance to a single-elimination bracket on the weekend, with the round of 16 and quarterfinals on Saturday, and the semi-finals, finals, and consolation match on Sunday.[5]
|
|
.svg.png.webp){kind=small}
|
|
.svg.png.webp){kind=small}
.svg.png.webp){kind=small}
Rank – Official World Golf Ranking on March 19, 2018.
Results
Pool play
Players were divided into 16 groups of four players and played round-robin matches Wednesday to Friday.
- Round 1 – March 21
- Round 2 – March 22
- Round 3 – March 23
|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Final 16 bracket
| First round March 24 – morning | Quarter-finals March 24 – afternoon | Semi-finals March 25 – morning | Final March 25 – afternoon | ||||||||||||||||
| 32 | Kevin Kisner
| 1 up | |||||||||||||||||
| 16 | Matt Kuchar
| ||||||||||||||||||
| 32 | Kevin Kisner
| 8&6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 58 |  Ian Poulter
| ||||||||||||||||||
| 25 |  Louis Oosthuizen
| ||||||||||||||||||
| 58 | Ian Poulter
| 2&1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 32 | Kevin Kisner
| 19 h | |||||||||||||||||
| 13 |  Alex Norén
| ||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | Patrick Reed
| ||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | Alex Norén
| 5&3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 13 | Alex Norén
| 4&2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 46 | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Cameron Smith
| ||||||||||||||||||
| 46 | Cameron Smith
| 2&1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 12 | Tyrrell Hatton
| ||||||||||||||||||
| 32 | Kevin Kisner
| ||||||||||||||||||
| 35 | Bubba Watson
| 7&6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Justin Thomas
| 6&5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 50 |  Kim Si-woo
| ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Justin Thomas
| 2&1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 45 | Kyle Stanley
| ||||||||||||||||||
| 7 |  Sergio García
| ||||||||||||||||||
| 45 | Kyle Stanley
| 3&1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Justin Thomas
| ||||||||||||||||||
| 35 | Bubba Watson
| 3&2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 28 |  Kiradech Aphibarnrat
| 1 up | Third place | ||||||||||||||||
| 59 | Charles Howell III
| ||||||||||||||||||
| 28 | Kiradech Aphibarnrat
| 13 | Alex Norén
| 5&3 | |||||||||||||||
| 35 | Bubba Watson
| 5&3 | 2 | Justin Thomas
| |||||||||||||||
| 18 | Brian Harman
| ||||||||||||||||||
| 35 | Bubba Watson
| 2&1 | |||||||||||||||||
Prize money breakdown
| Place | Description | US ($) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Champion | 1,700,000 |
| 2 | Runner-up | 1,072,000 |
| 3 | Third place | 695,000 |
| 4 | Fourth place | 559,000 |
| T5 | Losing quarter-finalists x 4 | 306,000 |
| T9 | Losing round of 16 x 8 | 163,000 |
| T17 | Those with 2 points in pool play x 12 | 97,917 |
| T29 | Those with 1.5 points in pool play x 7 | 77,429 |
| T36 | Those with 1 point in pool play x 16 | 65,500 |
| T52 | Those with 0.5 points in pool play x 7 | 54,214 |
| T59 | Those with 0 points in pool play x 6 | 50,250 |
| Total | 10,000,000 |
- Source:[6]
References
- ↑ "Week 10 – 2018" (PDF). Official World Golf Ranking. March 11, 2018.
- ↑ Hoggard, Rex (March 9, 2018). "Rose skipping Match Play: Not a good Masters prep". Golf Channel. Retrieved March 13, 2018.
- ↑ Everill, Ben (January 19, 2018). "Koepka sidelined for 10 weeks, hoping to play Masters". PGA Tour. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
- ↑ Gray, Will (March 7, 2018). "Stenson cites pool format for skipping WGC-Match Play". Golf Channel. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
- 1 2 3 "Format Overview and Glossary". PGA Tour. February 11, 2016. Archived from the original on February 28, 2016. Retrieved September 20, 2017.
- ↑ "Past Results – World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play". Retrieved March 30, 2021.
External links
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.