2022 WGC-Dell Matchplay drawings
AUSTIN, TX – The 2022 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play will be the 23rd WGC Match Play, to be played on March 23–27 at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas. Billy Horschel is the defending champion of this tournament after defeating Scottie Scheffler in last year's championship match.
- 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.
Each group is 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 sixteen group winners advance to the knockout stage. If two or more players are tied on points at the end of the group stage, there is a sudden death stroke play playoff between the tied players to determine the winner of the group.
In the knockout stage, the round of sixteen is played on Saturday morning, with the quarterfinals on Saturday afternoon. The semifinals are played on Sunday morning, and the final and third place playoff are played on Sunday afternoon. In total, barring withdrawals, those reaching the last four will play seven rounds of golf.
- Drawings (pool system)
The following players qualified for the field, consisting 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 21, which determined the seedings, and their world ranking as of March 15, which determined qualification, in parentheses. Players were divided into 16 groups of four players and play round-robin matches from Wednesday to Friday.
A. Pool A
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)
B. Pool B
17. Daniel Berger: 21 (19)
18. Tony Finau: 23 (23)
19. Paul Casey: 24 (24)
20. Matthew 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)
C. Pool C
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 Fernandez: 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)
D. Pool D
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)
NOTE: Cameron Smith (6), Rory McIlroy (7), Hideki Matsuyama (11), Sam Burns (17), Harris English (22) and Phil Mickelson (45) will not play. Mickelson will not play due to his PGA Tour Champions' membership status.
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SEE ALSO: 2021 WGC-Dell Matchplay drawings
