WGC Match Play
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Austin, Texas (2016–present) |
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| Established | 1999, 18 years ago |
| Course(s) | Austin Country Club |
| Par | 71 |
| Length | 7,108 yards (6,500 m) |
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PGA Tour European Tour |
| Format | Match play |
| Prize fund | $9,750,000 |
| Month played | March |
| Score | 18-hole match: 9 & 8 Tiger Woods (2006) Championship: 8 & 7 Tiger Woods (2008) |
 Dustin Johnson
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 2017 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play
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The WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play is one of the annual World Golf Championships, a match play knockout event. It was held in late February through 2014. In 2015 it was moved to the first weekend in May. In 2016 it moved to Austin, Texas and the last week of March.
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.
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.
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