Dates March 22–26, 2017 Course(s) Austin Country Club Par 72 | ||
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Tour(s) PGA TourEuropean TourJapan Golf Tour | ||
The 2017 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play will be the 19th WGC Match Play, to be played March 22–26 at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas. It will be the second of four World Golf Championships in 2017.
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Field
The field consists of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Ranking on March 12. However, the seedings are based on the World Rankings on March 19.
Format
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 pool play, 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). Each group has one player randomly selected from each pool to complete the group.
All group play matches are 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 are broken by a sudden-death stroke play playoff, beginning on hole 1.
The winners of each group advance to a single-elimination bracket on the weekend, with the round of 16 and quarterfinals on Saturday, and the semi-finals, finals, and consolation match on Sunday.
Pool play
Players will be divided into 16 groups of four players and play round-robin matches Wednesday to Friday.