2019 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play


The 2019 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play was the 21st WGC Match Play, played March 27–31 at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas. It was the second of four World Golf Championships in 2019.
Kevin Kisner, runner-up in 2018, defeated 2013 champion Matt Kuchar in the final, 3 & 2.

Course layout

Austin Country Club
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Yards3944704401853705902014984903,6383931945783174654405851503683,4907,128
Par444345344354354445343671

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Field

The field consisted of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Ranking on March 17. However, the seedings were based on the World Rankings on March 24.
Rickie Fowler and Adam Scott did not compete, allowing entry for Satoshi Kodaira and Luke List.

Nationalities in the field

Past champions in the field

Format

The first phase of the tournament involves players being split into 16 groups of four players. Each group is decided by a round-robin format played over Wednesday to Friday, with the sixteen group winners advancing to the knock out phase. The group winner is decided by awarding 1 point for a win, and ½ point for a halved match. If two or more players are tied on points at the conclusion of the group phase, sudden death stroke play playoff is played between tied players.
The group winners play the round of sixteen on Saturday morning, and the quarterfinal on Saturday afternoon. The semifinals are played on Sunday morning, and the final and third place playoff are played on Sunday afternoon. In total, the winner will play seven rounds of golf.
Pool A
SeedPlayerOWGR
1 Dustin Johnson1
2 Justin Rose2
3 Brooks Koepka3
4 Rory McIlroy4
5 Justin Thomas5
6 Bryson DeChambeau6
7 Francesco Molinari7
8 Jon Rahm8
9 Xander Schauffele9
10 Paul Casey11
11 Tommy Fleetwood12
12 Jason Day13
13 Tiger Woods14
14 Tony Finau15
15 Bubba Watson16
16 Patrick Reed17

Pool B
SeedPlayerOWGR
17 Marc Leishman18
18 Patrick Cantlay19
19 Louis Oosthuizen20
20 Phil Mickelson21
21 Webb Simpson22
22 Gary Woodland23
23 Matt Kuchar24
24 Hideki Matsuyama25
25 Cameron Smith26
26 Sergio García27
27 Alex Norén28
28 Jordan Spieth30
29 Rafa Cabrera-Bello31
30 Ian Poulter32
31 Keegan Bradley33
32 Matthew Fitzpatrick34

Pool C
SeedPlayerOWGR
33 Matt Wallace35
34 Eddie Pepperell36
35 Tyrrell Hatton37
36 Li Haotong38
37 Henrik Stenson39
38 Billy Horschel40
39 Kiradech Aphibarnrat41
40 Branden Grace42
41 Kyle Stanley43
42 Charles Howell III44
43 J. B. Holmes45
44 Brandt Snedeker46
45 Thorbjørn Olesen47
46 Shane Lowry48
47 Justin Harding49
48 Kevin Kisner50

Pool D
SeedPlayerOWGR
49 An Byeong-hun51
50 Lucas Bjerregaard52
51 Andrew Putnam53
52 Jim Furyk54
53 Emiliano Grillo55
54 Kim Si-woo56
55 Chez Reavie57
56 Keith Mitchell58
57 Kevin Na60
58 Abraham Ancer61
59 Russell Knox62
60 Tom Lewis63
61 Aaron Wise64
62 Lee Westwood65
63 Satoshi Kodaira67
64 Luke List69

Results

Pool play

Players were divided into 16 groups of four players and play round-robin matches Wednesday to Friday.
Players by pool: A=5, B=4, C=5, D=2

Breakdown by country

Prize money and FedEx Cup/OWGR points breakdown