User:Jopal22/2019 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play

The 2019 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play is the 21th WGC Match Play, and will be played on March 27–31 at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas. It is the second of four World Golf Championships in 2019.

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 2 points for a win, and 1 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 quarter final on Saturday afternoon. The semi finals 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.

Course layout
Austin Country Club Source:

Field
The field is made up of the 64 highest ranked available player in the Official World Golf Rankings on March 18.

The current top 64 (as at March 3) is:

Group Phase
Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7

Group 8

Group 9

Group 10

Group 11

Group 12

Group 13

Group 14

Group 15

Group 16