2021 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play

2021 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play

Tournament information
Dates	March 24–28, 2021
Location	Austin, Texas, U.S. 30.343°N 97.797°W / 30.343; -97.797
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	$10,500,000
Winner's share	$1,820,000
Champion
Billy Horschel
def. Scottie Scheffler 2 & 1
Location map
Austin CC Location in the United States Austin CC Location in Texas

The 2021 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play was the 22nd WGC Match Play, and was played on March 24–28 at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas. It was the second of the World Golf Championships in 2021.

Billy Horschel defeated Scottie Scheffler in the final, 2 and 1, for his first WGC win.

Course layout

Austin Country Club

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	394	470	440	185	370	590	201	498	490	3,638	393	194	578	317	465	440	585	150	368	3,490	7,128
Par	4	4	4	3	4	5	3	4	4	35	4	3	5	4	4	4	5	3	4	36	71

Field

The following players made up the field, which consisted of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Ranking on March 15. They are listed with their world ranking as of March 15 in parentheses; seedings were determined by their world ranking as of March 22.

• Dustin Johnson (1)
• Justin Thomas (2)
• Jon Rahm (3)
• Collin Morikawa (4)
• Bryson DeChambeau (5)
• Xander Schauffele (6)
• Patrick Reed (7)
• Tyrrell Hatton (8)
• Patrick Cantlay (9)
• Webb Simpson (10)
• Rory McIlroy (11)
• Tony Finau (13)
• Viktor Hovland (14)
• Daniel Berger (15)
• Matt Fitzpatrick (16)
• Paul Casey (17)
• Im Sung-jae (18)
• Lee Westwood (19)
• Harris English (20)
• Matthew Wolff (21)
• Tommy Fleetwood (22)
• Louis Oosthuizen (23)
• Hideki Matsuyama (24)
• Ryan Palmer (26)
• Cameron Smith (27)
• Abraham Ancer (28)
• Joaquín Niemann (29)
• Kevin Na (30)
• Jason Kokrak (31)
• Scottie Scheffler (32)
• Victor Perez (33)
• Billy Horschel (34)
• Christiaan Bezuidenhout (35)
• Kevin Kisner (36)
• Max Homa (37)
• Marc Leishman (39)
• Shane Lowry (40)
• Corey Conners (41)
• Sergio García (42)
• Will Zalatoris (43)
• Robert MacIntyre (44)
• Bernd Wiesberger (45)
• Carlos Ortiz (46)
• Jason Day (47)
• Kim Si-woo (48)
• Lanto Griffin (49)
• Brendon Todd (50)
• Jordan Spieth (52)
• Mackenzie Hughes (53)
• Matt Kuchar (54)
• Matt Wallace (55)
• Bubba Watson (57)
• Brian Harman (58)
• Kevin Streelman (59)
• Russell Henley (60)
• Sebastián Muñoz (61)
• Andy Sullivan (62)
• Antoine Rozner (63)
• Talor Gooch (64)
• Ian Poulter (65)
• Erik van Rooyen (66)
• Adam Long (67)
• J. T. Poston (68)
• Dylan Frittelli (69)

• Brooks Koepka (12), Justin Rose (38), Adam Scott (25), Gary Woodland (51) and Tiger Woods (56) did not play

Format

The 64 players were placed into four seeded pools, the 16 highest ranked players as of March 22 in Pool A, the next 16 in Pool B, etc. The top seeds (Pool A) were 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.

Each group was decided by a round-robin match play matches played on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, with one point awarded for a win and half a point for a tie. The sixteen group winners advanced to the knockout stage. If two or more players were 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.

The round of sixteen were 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, the winner played seven rounds of golf.

Pools

Pool A

Seed	Player	OWGR
1	Dustin Johnson	1
2	Justin Thomas	2
3	Jon Rahm	3
4	Collin Morikawa	4
5	Bryson DeChambeau	5
6	Xander Schauffele	6
7	Patrick Reed	7
8	Tyrrell Hatton	8
9	Webb Simpson	9
10	Patrick Cantlay	10
11	Rory McIlroy	11
12	Tony Finau	13
13	Viktor Hovland	14
14	Daniel Berger	15
15	Matt Fitzpatrick	16
16	Im Sung-jae	17

Pool B

Seed	Player	OWGR
17	Paul Casey	18
18	Lee Westwood	19
19	Harris English	20
20	Matthew Wolff	21
21	Tommy Fleetwood	22
22	Louis Oosthuizen	23
23	Hideki Matsuyama	24
24	Ryan Palmer	26
25	Cameron Smith	27
26	Joaquín Niemann	28
27	Abraham Ancer	29
28	Kevin Na	30
29	Jason Kokrak	31
30	Scottie Scheffler	32
31	Victor Perez	33
32	Billy Horschel	34

Pool C

Seed	Player	OWGR
33	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	35
34	Kevin Kisner	36
35	Max Homa	37
36	Marc Leishman	39
37	Corey Conners	40
38	Shane Lowry	41
39	Sergio García	42
40	Will Zalatoris	43
41	Robert MacIntyre	44
42	Carlos Ortiz	45
43	Bernd Wiesberger	46
44	Jason Day	47
45	Kim Si-woo	48
46	Lanto Griffin	50
47	Brendon Todd	51
48	Mackenzie Hughes	53

Pool D

Seed	Player	OWGR
49	Jordan Spieth	54
50	Russell Henley	55
51	Matt Wallace	56
52	Matt Kuchar	57
53	Kevin Streelman	58
54	Brian Harman	59
55	Bubba Watson	60
56	Sebastián Muñoz	62
57	Andy Sullivan	63
58	Antoine Rozner	64
59	Talor Gooch	65
60	Ian Poulter	66
61	Adam Long	67
62	Erik van Rooyen	68
63	J. T. Poston	70
64	Dylan Frittelli	71

Results

Group stage

Group stage matches were played from March 24 to March 26. Only one player qualified from pool A, with 4 qualifying from pool B, 3 from pool C and 8 from pool D.

Group 1 Round Winner Score Loser 1 Johnson 2 up Long MacIntyre 2 & 1 Na 2 Johnson vs MacIntyre – tied Long 2 & 1 Na 3 Na 1 up Johnson MacIntyre vs Long – tied Seed Player W L T Points Finish 41 Robert MacIntyre 1 0 2 2 1 1 Dustin Johnson 1 1 1 1.5 T2 61 Adam Long 1 1 1 1.5 T2 28 Kevin Na 1 2 0 1 4

Group 2 Round Winner Score Loser 1 Kuchar 3 & 2 Thomas Kisner 2 & 1 Oosthuizen 2 Kisner 2 & 1 Thomas Kuchar 1 up Oosthuizen 3 Thomas 3 & 2 Oosthuizen Kuchar 2 & 1 Kisner Seed Player W L T Points Finish 52 Matt Kuchar 3 0 0 3 1 34 Kevin Kisner 2 1 0 2 2 2 Justin Thomas 1 2 0 1 3 22 Louis Oosthuizen 0 3 0 0 4

Group 3 Round Winner Score Loser 1 Rahm 1 up Muñoz Palmer 4 & 2 Lowry 2 Rahm 2 up Lowry Palmer 2 & 1 Muñoz 3 Rahm vs Palmer – tied Lowry 3 & 2 Muñoz Seed Player W L T Points Finish 3 Jon Rahm 2 0 1 2.5 1 24 Ryan Palmer 2 0 1 2.5 2 38 Shane Lowry 1 2 0 1 3 56 Sebastián Muñoz 0 3 0 0 4 Rahm defeated Palmer on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with a birdie.

Group 4 Round Winner Score Loser 1 Morikawa vs Poston – tied Horschel 1 up Homa 2 Homa 2 & 1 Morikawa Poston 4 & 2 Horschel 3 Horschel 3 & 2 Morikawa Homa 3 & 2 Poston Seed Player W L T Points Finish 32 Billy Horschel 2 1 0 2 1 35 Max Homa 2 1 0 2 2 63 J. T. Poston 1 1 1 1.5 3 4 Collin Morikawa 0 2 1 0.5 4 Horschel defeated Homa on the third hole of a sudden-death playoff with a birdie.

Group 5 Round Winner Score Loser 1 Rozner 2 up DeChambeau Fleetwood vs Kim – tied 2 DeChambeau 2 & 1 Kim Fleetwood 4 & 3 Rozner 3 Fleetwood 1 up DeChambeau Rozner 3 & 1 Kim Seed Player W L T Points Finish 21 Tommy Fleetwood 2 0 1 2.5 1 58 Antoine Rozner 2 1 0 2 2 5 Bryson DeChambeau 1 2 0 1 3 45 Kim Si-woo 0 2 1 0.5 4

Group 6 Round Winner Score Loser 1 Schauffele vs Sullivan – tied Scheffler 2 up Day 2 Schauffele 2 & 1 Day Scheffler vs Sullivan – tied 3 Schauffele vs Scheffler – tied Day 2 & 1 Sullivan Seed Player W L T Points Finish 30 Scottie Scheffler 1 0 2 2 1 6 Xander Schauffele 1 0 2 2 2 44 Jason Day 1 2 0 1 T3 57 Andy Sullivan 0 1 2 1 T3 Scheffler defeated Schauffele on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with a birdie.

Group 7 Round Winner Score Loser 1 Reed vs Watson – tied Niemann vs Bezuidenhout – tied 2 Reed 2 & 1 Bezuidenhout Niemann vs Watson – tied 3 Niemann 5 & 4 Reed Watson 5 & 3 Bezuidenhout Seed Player W L T Points Finish 55 Bubba Watson 1 0 2 2 1 26 Joaquín Niemann 1 0 2 2 2 7 Patrick Reed 1 1 1 1.5 3 33 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 0 2 1 0.5 4 Watson defeated Niemann on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with a par.

Group 8 Round Winner Score Loser 1 Hatton vs Wallace – tied García 4 & 3 Westwood 2 García 3 & 2 Hatton Westwood 5 & 3 Wallace 3 Westwood 4 & 3 Hatton Wallace 5 & 3 García Seed Player W L T Points Finish 39 Sergio García 2 1 0 2 1 18 Lee Westwood 2 1 0 2 2 51 Matt Wallace 1 1 1 1.5 3 8 Tyrrell Hatton 0 2 1 0.5 4 García defeated Westwood on the fourth hole of a sudden-death playoff with a hole-in-one.

Group 9 Round Winner Score Loser 1 Simpson 6 & 5 Gooch Hughes 3 & 2 Casey 2 Hughes 4 & 3 Simpson Casey 3 & 2 Gooch 3 Simpson vs Casey – tied Hughes vs Gooch – tied Seed Player W L T Points Finish 48 Mackenzie Hughes 2 0 1 2.5 1 9 Webb Simpson 1 1 1 1.5 T2 17 Paul Casey 1 1 1 1.5 T2 59 Talor Gooch 0 2 1 0.5 4

Group 10 Round Winner Score Loser 1 Cantlay 1 up Harman Ortiz 4 & 3 Matsuyama 2 Cantlay 1 up Ortiz Harman 1 up Matsuyama 3 Matsuyama 4 & 2 Cantlay Harman 3 & 2 Ortiz Seed Player W L T Points Finish 54 Brian Harman 2 1 0 2 1 10 Patrick Cantlay 2 1 0 2 2 23 Hideki Matsuyama 1 2 0 1 T3 42 Carlos Ortiz 1 2 0 1 T3 Harman defeated Cantlay on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with a par.

Group 11 Round Winner Score Loser 1 Poulter 6 & 5 McIlroy Smith 1 up Griffin 2 McIlroy 4 & 3 Griffin Poulter 1 up Smith 3 McIlroy vs Smith – tied Poulter 2 & 1 Griffin Seed Player W L T Points Finish 60 Ian Poulter 3 0 0 3 1 25 Cameron Smith 1 1 1 1.5 T2 11 Rory McIlroy 1 1 1 1.5 T2 46 Lanto Griffin 0 3 0 0 4

Group 12 Round Winner Score Loser 1 Frittelli 6 & 5 Finau Kokrak 1 up Zalatoris 2 Finau vs Zalatoris – tied Frittelli 3 & 2 Kokrak 3 Finau 2 up Kokrak Zalatoris 2 up Frittelli Seed Player W L T Points Finish 64 Dylan Frittelli 2 1 0 2 1 12 Tony Finau 1 1 1 1.5 T2 40 Will Zalatoris 1 1 1 1.5 T2 29 Jason Kokrak 1 2 0 1 4

Group 13 Round Winner Score Loser 1 Streelman 4 & 2 Hovland Ancer 3 & 2 Wiesberger 2 Wiesberger 4 & 2 Hovland Ancer 2 & 1 Streelman 3 Hovland 1 up Ancer Streelman 1 up Wiesberger Seed Player W L T Points Finish 53 Kevin Streelman 2 1 0 2 1 27 Abraham Ancer 2 1 0 2 2 13 Viktor Hovland 1 2 0 1 T3 43 Bernd Wiesberger 1 2 0 1 T3 Streelman defeated Ancer on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with a birdie.

Group 14 Round Winner Score Loser 1 Berger 6 & 4 van Rooyen English 1 up Todd 2 Todd 2 & 1 Berger van Rooyen 2 & 1 English 3 Berger 4 & 2 English van Rooyen 2 & 1 Todd Seed Player W L T Points Finish 62 Erik van Rooyen 2 1 0 2 1 14 Daniel Berger 2 1 0 2 2 19 Harris English 1 2 0 1 T3 47 Brendon Todd 1 2 0 1 T3 van Rooyen defeated Berger on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with a par.

Group 15 Round Winner Score Loser 1 Spieth 3 & 1 Fitzpatrick Wolff 3 & 1 Conners 2 Fitzpatrick 5 & 4 Conners Wolff vs Spieth – tied 3 Fitzpatrick 3 & 2 Wolff Spieth 3 & 2 Conners Seed Player W L T Points Finish 49 Jordan Spieth 2 0 1 2.5 1 15 Matt Fitzpatrick 2 1 0 2 2 20 Matthew Wolff 1 1 1 1.5 3 37 Corey Conners 0 3 0 0 4

Group 16 Round Winner Score Loser 1 Im 1 up Henley Perez 2 & 1 Leishman 2 Leishman 2 & 1 Im Henley 4 & 3 Perez 3 Perez 2 & 1 Im Leishman vs Henley – tied Seed Player W L T Points Finish 31 Victor Perez 2 1 0 2 1 36 Marc Leishman 1 1 1 1.5 T2 50 Russell Henley 1 1 1 1.5 T2 16 Im Sung-jae 1 2 0 1 4

Final 16 bracket

First round March 27 – morning

Quarterfinals March 27 – afternoon

Semifinals March 28 – morning

Final March 28 – afternoon

41

Robert MacIntyre

31

Victor Perez

5&4

31

Victor Perez

4&3

39

Sergio García

39

Sergio García

2&1

48

Mackenzie Hughes

31

Victor Perez

32

Billy Horschel

3&2

32

Billy Horschel

3&1

53

Kevin Streelman

32

Billy Horschel

19h

21

Tommy Fleetwood

21

Tommy Fleetwood

4&3

64

Dylan Frittelli

32

Billy Horschel

2&1

30

Scottie Scheffler

52

Matt Kuchar

1up

49

Jordan Spieth

52

Matt Kuchar

2&1

54

Brian Harman

55

Bubba Watson

54

Brian Harman

2&1

52

Matt Kuchar

30

Scottie Scheffler

2&1

3

Jon Rahm

3&2

Third place

62

Erik van Rooyen

3

Jon Rahm

31

Victor Perez

30

Scottie Scheffler

3&1

52

Matt Kuchar

2&1

30

Scottie Scheffler

5&4

60

Ian Poulter

Prize money breakdown

Place	Description	US ($)
1	Champion	1,820,000
2	Runner-up	1,150,000
3	Third place	740,000
4	Fourth place	600,000
T5	Losing quarter-finalists x 4	337,000
T9	Losing round of 16 x 8	189,000
17	Those with 2.5 points in pool play x 1	144,000
T18	Those with 2 points in pool play x 10	113,700
T28	Those with 1.5 points in pool play x 14	75,000
T42	Those with 1 point in pool play x 14	47,571
T56	Those with 0.5 points in pool play x 5	38,000
T61	Those with 0 points in pool play x 4	35,750
	Total	10,500,000

• Source:

External links

• Official website
• Official 2021 Leaderboard
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site
• OWGR through 03/21/21 http://www.owgr.com/archive/PastRankings/2021/Rankings/owgr12f2021.pdf
• Media Guide