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2016 WGC HSBC Champions

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Dates
  
27–30 October 2016

Course(s)
  
Sheshan Golf Club

Length
  
7,261 yards (6,639 m)

Location
  
Shanghai, China

Par
  
72

2016 WGC-HSBC Champions

Tour(s)
  
Asian Tour European Tour PGA Tour

The 2016 WGC-HSBC Champions will be a golf tournament played from 27–30 October 2016 at the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai, China. It will be the eighth WGC-HSBC Champions tournament, and the fourth of four World Golf Championships events held in the 2016 calendar year.

Contents

Hideki Matsuyama won by 7 strokes from Daniel Berger and Henrik Stenson. Matsuyama became the first Japanese golfer to win an individual World Golf Championship.

Field

The following is a list of players who qualified for the 2016 WGC-HSBC Champions. The criteria is towards the leaders in points lists rather than tournament winners. Players who qualify 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

Dustin Johnson (2,3,4), Henrik Stenson (3,5), Jimmy Walker (3,4), Danny Willett (3,5)

  • Jason Day (2,3,4) did not play
    • 2. Winners of the previous four World Golf Championships

    Russell Knox (3,4), Adam Scott (3,4)

    3. Top 50 from the OWGR on 10 October

    An Byeong-hun, Daniel Berger (4), Rafael Cabrera-Bello (5), Paul Casey (4), Kevin Chappell (4), Matthew Fitzpatrick (5), Rickie Fowler, Sergio García (5), Branden Grace (5), Emiliano Grillo (4), Bill Haas, Tyrrell Hatton (5), J. B. Holmes (4), Thongchai Jaidee (5), Martin Kaymer (5), Kevin Kisner (4), Søren Kjeldsen (5), Brooks Koepka, Matt Kuchar (4), Shane Lowry (5), Hideki Matsuyama (4), Rory McIlroy (4,5), Francesco Molinari (5), Ryan Moore (4), Kevin Na (4), Alexander Norén (5), Louis Oosthuizen (5), Scott Piercy, Thomas Pieters (5), Patrick Reed (4), Charl Schwartzel (4,5,9), Justin Thomas (4), Bubba Watson (4), Lee Westwood (5), Chris Wood (5), Gary Woodland (4)

  • Jim Furyk, Zach Johnson, William McGirt (4), Phil Mickelson (4), Justin Rose, Brandt Snedeker (4), and Jordan Spieth (4) did not play
    • 4. Top 30 from the final 2016 FedEx Cup points list (if there are less than five available players, players beyond 30th will be selected to increase the number to five)

    Roberto Castro, Kim Si-woo, Jason Kokrak, Sean O'Hair, Jhonattan Vegas

  • Jason Dufner did not play
    • 5. Top 30 from the Race to Dubai as of 17 October

    Richard Bland, Grégory Bourdy, Bradley Dredge, Ross Fisher, Scott Hend (6), Andrew Johnston, Rikard Karlberg, Alexander Lévy, Joost Luiten, Bernd Wiesberger

  • Andy Sullivan did not play
    • 6. The leading four available players from the Asian Tour Order of Merit as of 17 October

    Chan Shih-chang, Marcus Fraser, Miguel Tabuena, Wang Jeung-hun

    7. The leading two available players from the Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit as of 17 October

    Kim Kyung-tae, Hideto Tanihara

  • Yuta Ikeda did not play.
    • 8. The leading two available players from the final 2015 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit

    Nathan Holman, Jordan Zunic

    9. The leading two available players from the final 2015 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

    Jacques Blaauw, George Coetzee

    10. Six players from China

    Dou Ze-cheng, Li Haotong, Liang Wen-Chong, Wu Ashun, Zhang Huilin, Zhang Xinjun

    11. Alternates, if needed to fill the field of 78 players
  • The next available player on the Orders of Merit of the Asian Tour, Japan Golf Tour, Sunshine Tour, and PGA Tour of Australasia, ranked in order of their position in the OWGR as of 10 October
  • Next available player, not otherwise exempt, from Race to Dubai as of 17 October, OWGR as of 10 October, FedEx Cup list:
    1. Song Young-han (Japan)
    2. Lee Soo-min (Asia)
    3. Dean Burmester (Sunshine)
    4. Matthew Millar (Australasia)
    5. Richard Sterne (Race to Dubai)

    Past champions in the field

  • Note: the HSBC Champions became a WGC event in 2009; winners before this are not listed.

    • First round

    Thursday, October 27, 2016

    Second round

    Friday, October 28, 2016

    Third round

    Saturday, October 29, 2016

    Final round

    Sunday, October 30, 2016

    Scorecard

    Final round

    Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
    Source:

    References

    2016 WGC-HSBC Champions Wikipedia
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