2019 WGC-Mexico Championship explained

2019 WGC-Mexico Championship
Dates:February 21–24, 2019
Location:Naucalpan, Mexico
Course:Club de Golf Chapultepec
Tour:PGA Tour
European Tour
Par:71
Yardage:7345yd
Field:72 players
Cut:None
Purse:$10,250,000
Winners Share:$1,745,000
Champion: Dustin Johnson
Score:263 (−21)
Previous:2018
Next:2020
Map:Mexico#Mexico State of Mexico
Map Relief:yes
Map Label:Naucalpan
Coordinates:19.431°N -99.244°W

The 2019 WGC-Mexico Championship was a golf tournament played February 21–24 at Club de Golf Chapultepec in Naucalpan, Mexico, just west of Mexico City. It was the 20th time the WGC Championship was played, and the first of the World Golf Championships events to be staged in 2019. The approximate elevation of the course's clubhouse is 2400m (7,900feet)

Dustin Johnson eased to a 5 stroke victory ahead of Rory McIlroy to win his third WGC Championship (second in Mexico), and sixth World Golf Championship overall. Although the victory did not immediately return Johnson to world number one, he and the current number one (Justin Rose) were not competing in the following week, which meant he was guaranteed to return to top spot a week later.[1] [2]

Course layout

Club de Golf Chapultepec

Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal
Yards3163871865064456252355253823,6074506224062254975754031723883,7387,345
Meters2893541704634075722154803493,2994115693712064415263691573553,4056,704
Par443445344354543454343671
Source:[3]

Field

The field consisted of players from the top of the Official World Golf Ranking and the money lists/Orders of Merit from the six main professional golf tours.[4] Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.

1. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking, as of February 11, 2019Kiradech Aphibarnrat (2,5), Lucas Bjerregaard (5), Keegan Bradley (2,3), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (2), Patrick Cantlay (2,3), Paul Casey (2,3), Bryson DeChambeau (2,3,4,6), Tony Finau (2,3), Matt Fitzpatrick (2), Tommy Fleetwood (2,3,5), Rickie Fowler (2,3), Sergio García (2,5), Branden Grace (2), Emiliano Grillo, Tyrrell Hatton (2,5), Billy Horschel (2,3), Dustin Johnson (2,3), Kevin Kisner (2), Brooks Koepka (2,3), Matt Kuchar (2,4), Marc Leishman (2,3,4), Li Haotong (2,5,6), Shane Lowry (2,6), Hideki Matsuyama (2,3), Rory McIlroy (2,3,5), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4), Francesco Molinari (2,3,5), Alex Norén (2,5), Thorbjørn Olesen (2,5), Louis Oosthuizen (2,6), Eddie Pepperell (2,5), Ian Poulter (2,6), Jon Rahm (2,3,5), Chez Reavie (2), Patrick Reed (2,3,5), Xander Schauffele (2,3,4,5), Webb Simpson (2,3), Cameron Smith (2,3), Jordan Spieth (2), Kyle Stanley (2,3), Henrik Stenson (2), Justin Thomas (2,3,4), Matt Wallace (2,5,6), Bubba Watson (2,3), Gary Woodland (2,3,4), Tiger Woods (2,3)
2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking, as of February 18, 2019Charles Howell III (4)
3. The top 30 players from the final 2018 FedExCup Points ListPatton Kizzire, Kevin Na, Aaron Wise
4. The top 10 players from the 2019 FedExCup Points List, as of February 18, 2019
5. The top 20 players from the final 2018 European Tour Race to DubaiAlexander Björk, Russell Knox, Lee Westwood, Danny Willett
6. The top 10 players from the 2019 European Tour Race to Dubai, as of February 11, 2019David Lipsky, Joost Luiten, Aaron Rai, Richard Sterne
7. The top 2 players not exempt from the final 2018 Japan Golf Tour Order of MeritShugo Imahira, Shaun Norris
8. The top 2 players from the final 2018 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of MeritJake McLeod, Matthew Millar
9. The leading two available players from the final 2017–18 Sunshine Tour Order of MeritGeorge Coetzee, Erik van Rooyen
10. The top 2 players from the final 2018 Asian Tour Order of MeritPark Sang-hyun, Shubhankar Sharma
11. The highest-ranked available player from Mexico from the Official World Golf Ranking as of February 11, 2019Abraham Ancer
12. Alternates to fill field to 72 (if necessary) from the Official World Golf Ranking as of February 18, 2019

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Rory McIlroy shot an 8-under-par 63 to take a one-shot lead over Dustin Johnson.[5]

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 63 −8
2 64 −7
T3 66 −5
Justin Thomas
T5 67 −4
Tyrrell Hatton
T7 68 −3
Billy Horschel
David Lipsky
Ian Poulter

Second round

Friday, February 22, 2019

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 64-67=131 −11
T2 66-67=133 −9
63-70=133
T4 70-65=135 −7
69-66=135
T6 68-68=136 −6
69-67=136
T8 68-69=137 −5
67-70=137
69-68=137
69-68=137
71-66=137

Third round

Saturday, February 23, 2019

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 64-67-66=197 −16
2 63-70-68=201 −12
T3 72-67-65=204 −9
69-66-69=204
72-68-64=204
69-67-68=204
T7 68-69-68=205 −8
68-68-69=205
T9 70-65-72=207 −6
68-71-68=207
72-66-69=207
71-66-70=207

Final round

Sunday, February 24, 2019

PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)
1 Dustin Johnson 64-67-66-66=263 −21 1,745,000
2 63-70-68-67=268 −16 1,095,000
T3 68-69-68-68=273 −11 472,000
71-72-65-65=273
68-68-69-68=273
T6 72-67-65-70=274 −10 261,667
69-66-69-70=274
69-67-68-70=274
9 66-73-74-62=275 −9 201,000
T10 69-73-69-65=276 −8 161,500
68-71-68-69=276
71-67-74-64=276
71-66-70-69=276

Scorecard

Final round

Hole1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415161718
Par443445344454345434
Johnson −16 −16 −15 −15 −15 −16 −16 −16 −16 −17 −18 −18 −18 −19 −20 −21 −21 −21
McIlroy −12 −13 −13 −12 −12 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −12 −13 −13 −14 −15 −16 −17 −16
Aphibarnrat −8 −8 −7 −7 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −9 −10 −11
Casey −6 −7 −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −11 −11 −10 −10 −10 −11 −11 −11
Poulter −7 −8 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −11 −11 −11
Cantlay −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −11 −11 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10
García −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −9 −10 −10 −11 −10 −9 −10 −10 −10 −10
Smith −8 −9 −9 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −7 −8 −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −10 −10
Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Double EagleEagle -->BirdieBogeyDouble bogey
Triple bogey+ -->
Source:[6]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Monday Finish: Dustin Johnson is basically unbeatable . Everill . Ben . 25 February 2019 . PGA Tour . 25 February 2019 . mdy-all.
  2. News: WGC-Mexico Championship: Dustin Johnson wins 20th PGA Tour title . 25 February 2019 . BBC Sport . 1 March 2019 . mdy-all.
  3. News: WGC-Mexico Championship: Card of the course . European Tour . March 1, 2017 . March 1, 2017.
  4. Web site: 2019 Qualifiers for majors, The Players, WGCs . PGA Tour . February 3, 2019.
  5. News: Rory McIlroy leads Dustin Johnson by a stroke at Mexico Championship . ESPN . February 21, 2019.
  6. News: WGC-Mexico Championship . ESPN . 24 February 2019. mdy-all.

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