2020 WGC-HSBC Champions


The 2020 WGC-HSBC Champions is scheduled to be a golf tournament played from 29 October – 1 November 2020 at the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai, China. It would be the twelfth WGC-HSBC Champions tournament, and the fourth of four World Golf Championships events held in the 2020 calendar year.
In July, the status of the event was put in doubt when China effectively cancelled all international sporting events for the remainder of the calendar year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Field

The following is a list of players who qualified for the 2020 WGC-HSBC Champions. The criteria is towards the leaders in points lists rather than tournament winners. Players who qualified from multiple categories will be listed in the first category in which they are eligible with the other qualifying categories in parentheses next to the player's name.
;1. Winners of the four major championships and The Players Championship
;2. Winners of the previous four World Golf Championships
;3. Top 50 from the OWGR on 12 October
;4. Top 30 from the final 2020 FedEx Cup points list
;5. Top 30 from the Race to Dubai as of 19 October
;6. The leading four available players from the Asian Tour Order of Merit as of 19 October
;7. The leading two available players from the Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit as of 19 October
;8. The leading two available players from the final 2019 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit
;9. The leading two available players from the final 2019–20 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit
;10. Six players from China
;11. Alternates, if needed to fill the field of 78 players

Past champions expected in the field