2022 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play

2022 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play
Tournament information
Dates	March 23–27, 2022
Location	Austin, Texas, U.S.; 30°20′35″N 97°47′49″W / 30.343°N 97.797°W
Course(s)	Austin Country Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour; European Tour; Japan Golf Tour
Format	Match play (18 holes)
Statistics
Par	71
Length	7,108 yards (6,500 m)
Field	64 players
Prize fund	US$12,000,000
Winner's share	US$2,100,000
Champion
	Scottie Scheffler
	def. Kevin Kisner 4 & 3
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The 2022 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play was the 23rd WGC Match Play, played March 23–27 at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas.

The tournament was won by 2021 runner-up Scottie Scheffler, who defeated Kevin Kisner 4 and 3 in the final. With the win, Scheffler's third in his last five starts, he rose to number one in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time.^[1]^[2] Corey Conners beat Dustin Johnson 3 and 1 in the consolation match to claim third place.^[1]

Format

The 64 players were placed into four seeded pools, the 16 highest ranked players as of March 21 in Pool A, the next 16 in Pool B, etc. The top seeds (Pool A) are placed into 16 groups in order, with the groups completed by means of a random draw of one player from each of the remaining pools.^[3]

Each group was played as a round-robin of match play matches, held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, with one point awarded for a win and half a point for a tie. The 16 group winners advanced to the knockout stage. If two or more players are tied on points at the end of the group stage, there was a sudden death stroke play playoff between the tied players to determine the winner of the group.^[3]

In the knockout stage, the round of 16 was played on Saturday morning, with the quarterfinals on Saturday afternoon. The semifinals were played on Sunday morning, and the final and third place playoff were played on Sunday afternoon. In total, barring withdrawals, those reaching the last four played seven rounds of golf.^[3]

Field

The following players qualified for the field, consisting of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Ranking on March 15.^[3] They are listed with their world ranking as of March 21, which determined the seedings, and their world ranking as of March 15, which determined qualification, in parentheses.^[4]

Pools

Pool A
Seed	Player	OWGR
1	Jon Rahm	1 (1)
2	Collin Morikawa	2 (2)
3	Viktor Hovland	3 (3)
4	Patrick Cantlay	4 (4)
5	Scottie Scheffler	5 (5)
6	Justin Thomas	7 (8)
7	Xander Schauffele	9 (9)
8	Dustin Johnson	11 (10)
9	Bryson DeChambeau	13 (12)
10	Louis Oosthuizen	14 (13)
11	Jordan Spieth	15 (14)
12	Billy Horschel	16 (16)
13	Tyrrell Hatton	17 (15)
14	Joaquín Niemann	18 (18)
15	Abraham Ancer	19 (20)
16	Brooks Koepka	20 (21)

Pool B
Seed	Player	OWGR
17	Daniel Berger	21 (19)
18	Tony Finau	23 (23)
19	Paul Casey	24 (24)
20	Matt Fitzpatrick	25 (26)
21	Im Sung-jae	26 (25)
22	Jason Kokrak	27 (27)
23	Patrick Reed	28 (28)
24	Will Zalatoris	29 (29)
25	Kevin Na	30 (30)
26	Thomas Pieters	31 (31)
27	Talor Gooch	32 (32)
28	Shane Lowry	33 (36)
29	Kevin Kisner	34 (33)
30	Max Homa	35 (34)
31	Webb Simpson	36 (35)
32	Adam Scott	37 (37)

Pool C
Seed	Player	OWGR
33	Tom Hoge	38 (38)
34	Russell Henley	39 (39)
35	Harold Varner III	40 (40)
36	Corey Conners	41 (41)
37	Marc Leishman	42 (42)
38	Matthew Wolff	43 (43)
39	Lucas Herbert	44 (44)
40	Cameron Young	45 (46)
41	Tommy Fleetwood	46 (47)
42	Séamus Power	48 (48)
43	Sergio García	49 (49)
44	Brian Harman	50 (63)
45	Cameron Tringale	51 (50)
46	Justin Rose	52 (51)
47	Lee Westwood	53 (52)
48	Kim Si-woo	54 (54)

Pool D
Seed	Player	OWGR
49	Min Woo Lee	55 (56)
50	Alex Norén	56 (62)
51	Mackenzie Hughes	57 (55)
52	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	58 (53)
53	Luke List	59 (58)
54	Richard Bland	60 (57)
55	Erik van Rooyen	61 (59)
56	Takumi Kanaya	63 (60)
57	Bubba Watson	65 (61)
58	Sebastián Muñoz	66 (65)
59	Ian Poulter	67 (64)
60	Keegan Bradley	69 (66)
61	Robert MacIntyre	70 (67)
62	Keith Mitchell	71 (68)
63	Sepp Straka	72 (69)
64	Maverick McNealy	74 (70)

Cameron Smith (6),^[5] Rory McIlroy (7), Hideki Matsuyama (11), Sam Burns (17),^[6] Harris English (22) and Phil Mickelson (45) did not play.^[7]

Results

Pool play

Players were divided into 16 groups of four players and play round-robin matches Wednesday to Friday.^[8]

Round 1 – March 23
Round 2 – March 24
Round 3 – March 25

Group 1

Rank	Player (seed)	W	L	T	Pts	Match results
1	Jon Rahm (1)	2	1	0	2	Beat Muñoz 4 & 2	Beat Young 5 & 4	Lost to Reed 3 & 2
T2	Patrick Reed (23)	1	1	1	1.5	Lost to Young 1 down	Tied Muñoz	Beat Rahm 3 & 2
T2	Sebastián Muñoz (58)	1	1	1	1.5	Lost to Rahm 4 & 2	Tied Reed	Beat Young 1 up
4	Cameron Young (40)	1	2	0	1	Beat Reed 1 up	Lost to Rahm 5 & 4	Lost to Muñoz 1 down

Group 2

Rank	Player (seed)	W	L	T	Pts	Match results
1	Collin Morikawa (2)	2	0	1	2.5	Beat MacIntyre 2 & 1	Tied García	Beat Kokrak 1 up
2	Sergio García (43)	1	1	1	1.5	Beat Kokrak 4 & 3	Tied Morikawa	Lost to MacIntyre 4 & 2
T3	Jason Kokrak (22)	1	2	0	1	Lost to García 4 & 3	Beat MacIntyre 3 & 2	Lost to Morikawa 1 down
T3	Robert MacIntyre (61)	1	2	0	1	Lost to Morikawa 2 & 1	Lost to Kokrak 3 & 2	Beat García 4 & 2

Group 3

Rank	Player (seed)	W	L	Pts	Match results
1	Will Zalatoris (24)	2	1	2	Beat Tringale 5 & 4	Lost to Straka 4 & 2	Beat Hovland 1 up
2	Viktor Hovland (3)	2	1	2	Beat Straka 1 up	Beat Tringale 2 & 1	Lost to Zalatoris 1 down
T3	Cameron Tringale (45)	1	2	1	Lost to Zalatoris 5 & 4	Lost to Hovland 2 & 1	Beat Straka 5 & 3
T3	Sepp Straka (63)	1	2	1	Lost to Hovland 1 down	Beat Zalatoris 4 & 2	Lost to Tringale 5 & 3

Zalatoris defeated Hovland on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with a birdie.

Group 4

Rank	Player (seed)	W	L	T	Pts	Match results
1	Séamus Power (42)	2	1	0	2	Beat Im 5 & 4	Beat Cantlay 5 & 4	Lost to Mitchell 2 & 1
T2	Patrick Cantlay (4)	1	1	1	1.5	Tied Mitchell	Lost to Power 5 & 4	Beat Im 2 & 1
T2	Keith Mitchell (62)	1	1	1	1.5	Tied Cantlay	Lost to Im 5 & 3	Beat Power 2 & 1
4	Im Sung-jae (21)	1	2	0	1	Lost to Power 5 & 4	Beat Mitchell 5 & 3	Lost to Cantlay 2 & 1

Group 5

Rank	Player (seed)	W	L	Pts	Match results
1	Scottie Scheffler (5)	2	1	2	Beat Poulter 2 & 1	Lost to Fleetwood 2 & 1	Beat Fitzpatrick 5 & 4
2	Matt Fitzpatrick (20)	2	1	2	Beat Fleetwood 1 up	Beat Poulter 4 & 2	Lost to Scheffler 5 & 4
T3	Tommy Fleetwood (41)	1	2	1	Lost to Fitzpatrick 1 down	Beat Scheffler 2 & 1	Lost to Poulter 4 & 3
T3	Ian Poulter (59)	1	2	1	Lost to Scheffler 2 & 1	Lost to Fitzpatrick 4 & 2	Beat Fleetwood 4 & 3

Scheffler defeated Fitzpatrick on the sixth hole of a sudden-death playoff with a birdie.

Group 6

Rank	Player (seed)	W	L	Pts	Match results
1	Kevin Kisner (29)	3	0	3	Beat Leishman 4 & 3	Beat List 1 up	Beat Thomas 4 & 3
T2	Justin Thomas (6)	1	2	1	Lost to List 3 & 2	Beat Leishman 5 & 4	Lost to Kisner 4 & 3
T2	Marc Leishman (37)	1	2	1	Lost to Kisner 4 & 3	Lost to Thomas 5 & 4	Beat List 3 & 2
T2	Luke List (53)	1	2	1	Beat Thomas 3 & 2	Lost to Kisner 1 down	Lost to Leishman 3 & 2

Group 7

Rank	Player (seed)	W	L	Pts	Match results
1	Takumi Kanaya (56)	2	1	2	Lost to Schauffele 3 & 2	Beat Finau 1 up	Beat Herbert 5 & 4
2	Lucas Herbert (39)	2	1	2	Beat Finau 4 & 3	Beat Schauffele 1 up	Lost to Kanaya 5 & 4
T3	Xander Schauffele (7)	1	2	1	Beat Kanaya 3 & 2	Lost to Herbert 1 down	Lost to Finau 4 & 2
T3	Tony Finau (18)	1	2	1	Lost to Herbert 4 & 3	Lost to Kanaya 1 down	Beat Schauffele 4 & 2

Kanaya defeated Herbert on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with a par.

Group 8

Rank	Player (seed)	W	L	Pts	Match results
1	Dustin Johnson (8)	3	0	3	Beat Hughes 3 & 2	Beat Wolff 4 & 2	Beat Homa 1 up
2	Mackenzie Hughes (51)	2	1	2	Lost to Johnson 3 & 2	Beat Homa 2 up	Beat Wolff 1 up
3	Max Homa (30)	1	2	1	Beat Wolff 3 & 1	Lost to Hughes 2 down	Lost to Johnson 1 down
4	Matthew Wolff (38)	0	3	0	Lost to Homa 3 & 1	Lost to Johnson 4 & 2	Lost to Hughes 1 down

Group 9

Rank	Player (seed)	W	L	T	Pts	Match results
1	Richard Bland (54)	2	0	1	2.5	Tied DeChambeau	Beat Gooch 1 up	Beat Westwood 2 & 1
2	Talor Gooch (27)	2	1	0	2	Beat Westwood 3 & 2	Lost to Bland 1 down	Beat DeChambeau 1 up
3	Lee Westwood (47)	1	2	0	1	Lost to Gooch 3 & 2	Beat DeChambeau 1 up	Lost to Bland 2 & 1
4	Bryson DeChambeau (9)	0	2	1	0.5	Tied Bland	Lost to Westwood 1 down	Lost to Gooch 1 down

Group 10

Rank	Player (seed)	W	L	Pts	Match results
1	Corey Conners (36)	3	0	3	Beat Casey (conceded)^[a]	Beat Oosthuizen 2 & 1	Beat Norén 3 & 2
2	Alex Norén (50)	2	1	2	Beat Oosthuizen 1 up	Beat Casey (conceded)^[b]	Lost to Conners 3 & 2
3	Louis Oosthuizen (10)	1	2	1	Lost to Norén 1 down	Lost to Conners 2 & 1	Beat Casey (conceded)^[b]
4	Paul Casey (19)	0	3	0	Lost to Conners (conceded)^[a]	Lost to Norén (conceded)^[b]	Lost to Oosthuizen (conceded)^[b]

Group 11

Rank	Player (seed)	W	L	T	Pts	Match results
1	Adam Scott (32)	2	0	1	2.5	Beat Rose 2 up	Tied Bradley	Beat Spieth 3 & 2
2	Justin Rose (46)	1	1	1	1.5	Lost to Scott 2 down	Beat Spieth 3 & 2	Tied Bradley
T3	Jordan Spieth (11)	1	2	0	1	Beat Bradley 2 up	Lost to Rose 3 & 2	Lost to Scott 3 & 2
T3	Keegan Bradley (60)	0	1	2	1	Lost to Spieth 2 down	Tied Scott	Tied Rose

Group 12

Rank	Player (seed)	W	L	T	Pts	Match results
1	Billy Horschel (12)	2	0	1	2.5	Beat Lee 3 & 2	Beat Hoge 3 & 2	Tied Pieters
T2	Thomas Pieters (26)	1	1	1	1.5	Beat Hoge 2 & 1	Lost to Lee 1 down	Tied Horschel
T2	Min Woo Lee (49)	1	1	1	1.5	Lost to Horschel 3 & 2	Beat Pieters 1 up	Tied Hoge
4	Tom Hoge (33)	0	2	1	0.5	Lost to Pieters 2 & 1	Lost to Horschel 3 & 2	Tied Lee

Group 13

Rank	Player (seed)	W	L	Pts	Match results
1	Tyrrell Hatton (13)	3	0	3	Beat Bezuidenhout 3 & 2	Beat Kim 1 up	Beat Berger 2 up
2	Kim Si-woo (48)	2	1	2	Beat Berger 2 up	Lost to Hatton 1 down	Beat Bezuidenhout 6 & 4
3	Daniel Berger (17)	1	2	1	Lost to Kim 2 down	Beat Bezuidenhout 2 & 1	Lost to Hatton 2 up
4	Christiaan Bezuidenhout (52)	0	3	0	Lost to Hatton 3 & 2	Lost to Berger 2 & 1	Lost to Kim 6 & 4

Group 14

Rank	Player (seed)	W	L	T	Pts	Match results
1	Kevin Na (25)	2	0	1	2.5	Beat Henley 1 up	Tied McNealy	Beat Niemann 1 up
2	Maverick McNealy (64)	2	0	1	2.5	Beat Niemann 8 & 6	Tied Na	Beat Henley 2 & 1
3	Joaquín Niemann (14)	1	2	0	1	Lost to McNealy 8 & 6	Beat Henley 2 & 1	Lost to Na 1 down
4	Russell Henley (34)	0	3	0	0	Lost to Na 1 down	Lost to Niemann 2 & 1	Lost to McNealy 2 & 1

Na defeated McNealy on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with a birdie.

Group 15

Rank	Player (seed)	W	L	T	Pts	Match results
1	Abraham Ancer (15)	2	0	1	2.5	Beat Watson 3 & 1	Tied Harman	Beat Simpson 2 up
2	Bubba Watson (57)	1	1	1	1.5	Lost to Ancer 3 & 1	Beat Simpson 1 up	Tied Harman
T3	Webb Simpson (31)	1	2	0	1	Beat Harman 1 up	Lost to Watson 1 down	Lost to Ancer 2 down
T3	Brian Harman (44)	0	1	2	1	Lost to Simpson 1 down	Tied Ancer	Tied Watson

Group 16

Rank	Player (seed)	W	L	Pts	Match results
1	Brooks Koepka (16)	3	0	3	Beat van Rooyen 3 & 2	Beat Varner 2 & 1	Beat Lowry 1 up
2	Harold Varner III (35)	2	1	2	Beat Lowry 2 & 1	Lost to Koepka 2 & 1	Beat van Rooyen 5 & 4
3	Shane Lowry (28)	1	2	1	Lost to Varner 2 & 1	Beat van Rooyen 2 up	Lost to Koepka 1 down
4	Erik van Rooyen (55)	0	3	0	Lost to Koepka 3 & 2	Lost to Lowry 2 down	Lost to Varner 5 & 4

Final 16 bracket

First round
March 26 – morning

Quarterfinals
March 26 – afternoon

Semifinals
March 27 – morning

Final
March 27 – afternoon

2

Collin Morikawa

15

Abraham Ancer

7&6

15

Abraham Ancer

36

Corey Conners

2 up

56

Takumi Kanaya

36

Corey Conners

5&3

36

Corey Conners

29

Kevin Kisner

2 up

24

Will Zalatoris

22h

25

Kevin Na

24

Will Zalatoris

29

Kevin Kisner

4&3

32

Adam Scott

29

Kevin Kisner

1 up

29

Kevin Kisner

5

Scottie Scheffler

4&3

1

Jon Rahm

16

Brooks Koepka

19h

16

Brooks Koepka

8

Dustin Johnson

2 up

54

Richard Bland

8

Dustin Johnson

3&2

8

Dustin Johnson

5

Scottie Scheffler

3&1

5

Scottie Scheffler

1 up

Third place

12

Billy Horschel

5

Scottie Scheffler

3&2

36

Corey Conners

3&1

42

Séamus Power

8

Dustin Johnson

13

Tyrrell Hatton

42

Séamus Power

4&3

Prize money breakdown

Place	Description	US$
1	Champion	2,100,000
2	Runner-up	1,320,000
3	Third place	852,000
4	Fourth place	685,000
T5	Losing quarter-finalists x 4	386,000
T9	Losing round of 16 x 8	220,000
17	Those with 2.5 points in pool play x 1	164,000
T18	Those with 2 points in pool play x 8	133,875
T26	Those with 1.5 points in pool play x 9	97,111
T35	Those with 1 point in pool play x 23	58,239
T58	Those with 0.5 points in pool play x 2	42,750
T60	Those with 0 points in pool play x 5	41,000
	Total	12,000,000

Prize money for players who did not qualify for the knockout stage was from $164,000 to $40,000. Positions for these players were based on points scored in pool play.

Source:^[11]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Casey conceded the match against Conners after two holes due to back spasms.^[9]
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Casey conceded his matches against Norén and Oosthuizen.^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b Ferguson, Doug (March 27, 2022). "Scottie Scheffler claims world No. 1 throne at Match Play after third win in six weeks". Golf Channel. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
^ "World Match Play: Scottie Scheffler beats Kevin Kisner to move to world number one". BBC Sport. March 27, 2022. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Top 64 players qualify to the WGC-Dell Technologies match play". PGA Tour. March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
^ "Final field set for 2022 World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies match play". PGA Tour. March 18, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
^ Powell, Colby (March 16, 2022). "Cameron Smith withdraws from next week's WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play". Golf Channel. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
^ Powell, Colby (March 21, 2022). "Sam Burns withdraws from WGC-Match Play after winning Valspar Championship". Golf Channel. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
^ "WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play: Rory McIlroy skips event; Bryson DeChambeau named in field". Sky Sports. March 18, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2022.
^ "Groups announced for the 2022 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play". PGA Tour. March 21, 2022. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
^ Hoggard, Rex (March 23, 2022). "Paul Casey gets back spasms, concedes first-round match after two holes". Golf Channel. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
^ Everill, Ben (March 25, 2022). "Paul Casey withdraws from Day 2, 3 matches at WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play". PGA Tour. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
^ "World Golf Championships–Dell Technologies Match Play 2022 Media Guide" (PDF). PGA Tour. p. 8. Retrieved March 24, 2022.

External links

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[Casey1-10] Casey conceded the match against Conners after two holes due to back spasms.^[9]

[Casey2-12] Casey conceded his matches against Norén and Oosthuizen.^[10]

[gcfinal-1] Ferguson, Doug (March 27, 2022). "Scottie Scheffler claims world No. 1 throne at Match Play after third win in six weeks". Golf Channel. Retrieved March 28, 2022.

[2] "World Match Play: Scottie Scheffler beats Kevin Kisner to move to world number one". BBC Sport. March 27, 2022. Retrieved March 28, 2022.

[format-3] "Top 64 players qualify to the WGC-Dell Technologies match play". PGA Tour. March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 16, 2022.

[field-4] "Final field set for 2022 World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies match play". PGA Tour. March 18, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2022.

[5] Powell, Colby (March 16, 2022). "Cameron Smith withdraws from next week's WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play". Golf Channel. Retrieved March 16, 2022.

[6] Powell, Colby (March 21, 2022). "Sam Burns withdraws from WGC-Match Play after winning Valspar Championship". Golf Channel. Retrieved March 21, 2022.

[7] "WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play: Rory McIlroy skips event; Bryson DeChambeau named in field". Sky Sports. March 18, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2022.

[groups-8] "Groups announced for the 2022 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play". PGA Tour. March 21, 2022. Retrieved March 22, 2022.

[9] Hoggard, Rex (March 23, 2022). "Paul Casey gets back spasms, concedes first-round match after two holes". Golf Channel. Retrieved March 24, 2022.

[11] Everill, Ben (March 25, 2022). "Paul Casey withdraws from Day 2, 3 matches at WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play". PGA Tour. Retrieved March 24, 2022.

[mg-13] "World Golf Championships–Dell Technologies Match Play 2022 Media Guide" (PDF). PGA Tour. p. 8. Retrieved March 24, 2022.

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