2016 WGC-Dell Match Play
| Dates | March 23–27, 2016 |
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| Location | Austin, Texas, U.S. |
| Course(s) | Austin Country Club |
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PGA Tour European Tour Japan Golf Tour |
| Format | Match play – 18 holes |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 7,073 yards (6,468 m) |
| Field | 64 players |
| Prize fund |
$9,500,000 €8,374,984 |
| Winner's share | $1,620,000 €1,428,155 |
 Jason Day
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| def. Louis Oosthuizen 5 & 4 | |
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The 2016 WGC-Dell Match Play was the 18th WGC-Dell Match Play Championship, played March 23–27 at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas. It was the second of four World Golf Championships in 2016. The Championship was won by Jason Day, it was his second WGC-Match Play win in three years.
The field consisted of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Ranking on March 13. However, the seedings are based on the World Ranking on March 20.
Henrik Stenson (ranked 7 on March 13, personal reasons) and Jim Furyk (ranked 15, wrist surgery) did not compete, allowing entry for Patton Kizzire (ranked 65) and Thorbjørn Olesen (ranked 66).
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 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). One player is randomly selected from each pool to complete each group.
In 2015, there were no halved matches in group play with extra holes played to determine the winner for each match if necessary. In 2016, all group play matches were limited to 18 holes with one point awarded for a win and one-half point for a halved match. Ties for first place in a group were broken by a sudden-death stroke play playoff, beginning on hole 1.
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