They all average more than yards off the tee, making this perhaps the most powerful group in the field. My decision essentially comes down to Pieters and Vegas.

While there are compelling arguments on both sides, I have to support the Belgian — not only did he flash plenty of form at the WGC-Mexico Championship, he also had a great week for Team Europe at the Ryder Cup last fall.

These are four players who can definitely provide some firepower when the conditions are right, but as of now, only one is hitting the ball even moderately well.

That one is Snedeker , who appears to be the best bet to advance to the knockout stage. The Vanderbilt product seldom slumps and has notched three top 10s in his last five starts, a reasonably good record.

Tiger Woods has the record number of wins with three. The match play format fell out of favor in professional individual golf tournaments with the growth of television.

The two major match play tournaments in the pre TV era were the PGA Championship , which converted to stroke play format in , [4] and the British PGA Matchplay Championship which faced a slow decline after the introduction of the British PGA Championship in which had a stroke play format , and eventually became defunct in Despite not being popular with television companies, and often requiring more rounds to be played by a player than a stroke play event, the format was still respected as offering a different challenge than stroke play.

At the end of the s, there were two significant unofficial match play tournaments, the relatively new Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf , which had a man field with the finals played in Arizona , [7] and the much older World Match Play Championship , which had a field of 16 players or less and was played in England.

When the World Golf Championships were formed in , it was decided one of the events would be held in match play format, which meant the return of an official match play event on the PGA Tour and the European Tour.

In , the tournament sponsor was renamed, and the tournament followed suit, becoming known as the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.

Nearly forty players turned down their invitation, including six of the top ten. This was largely seen as because it was played very early in the year when some players have an off season, and for many players the travel time was too long when playing a single tournament where you could end up playing just a single round.

Tiger Woods is the most successful player in the WGC Match Play, and he won his three titles in Arizona, although he was less dominant than he was in the other U.

Geoff Ogilvy became the second most successful player in the tournament's history after winning in and and finishing runner up in As well as the intermittent weather issues in Dove Mountain, the performance of the WGC Match Play was a concern for other reasons, with Rex Hoggard of the Golf Channel remarking "Since , when the Tour uprooted the Match Play from La Costa for the Tucson highlands, the galleries have been thin, the golf courses have been tolerated and the Sundays have been largely undistinguished".

The structure was changed so the field was split into 16 four-player groups played on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, with the player with the best record advancing.

The four knockout rounds are then split over Saturday and Sunday. The format ensured that spectators could guarantee to see the entire field on the first three days, and some coverage would occur in primetime in the East Coast of the United States.

After one year in California, the tournament moved to March with a new long term home and sponsor, the Austin Country Club in Texas , and Dell which is headquartered in greater Austin area.

Seed — the player's seeding in the event. Rank — the player's world ranking at the date the seedings were determined. Numbers in parentheses in the table are the number of wins by the golfer.

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The Dell Technologies Match Play is one of four tournaments in the annual series of World Golf Championships. In , Dell Technologies was announced as the new title sponsor for Match Play and the event moved to its new home at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas. World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play. Wednesday Mar 21 - Sunday Mar 25, Austin, TX •. 67F°. Video highlights. More. Dell Technologies Match Play gives back to Dell Children's Hospital Texas’ Scottie Scheffler makes move inside the top 64 for the first time with top-three finish at The American Express Digital. The WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play is a professional golf tournament hosted at the Austin Country Club in Texas since , and is the only one of the four annual World Golf Championships to be contested using match play format. Previous names include WGC-Dell Match Play, WGC-Cadillac Match Play, WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, and WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship. Before moving to Austin it had been hosted in Arizona eight times, California eight times, and Australia onc. The next stop on Tiger Woods' tournament schedule is Austin, Texas, where many of the world's best golfers gather this week for the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, one of the more unique.