2019 WGC-Mexico Championship

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2019 WGC-Mexico Championship
PGA Tour advertisement for the 2019 WGC-Mexico Championship featuring winner Dustin Johnson
Tournament information
DatesFebruary 21–24, 2019
LocationNaucalpan, Mexico
19°25′52″N 99°14′38″W / 19.431°N 99.244°W / 19.431; -99.244
Course(s)Club de Golf Chapultepec
Tour(s)PGA Tour
European Tour
Statistics
Par71
Length7,345 yards (6,716 m)
Field72 players
CutNone
Prize fund$10,250,000
Winner's share$1,745,000
Champion
United States Dustin Johnson
263 (−21)
Location map
Naucalpan is located in Mexico
Naucalpan
Naucalpan
Location in Mexico
Naucalpan is located in State of Mexico
Naucalpan
Naucalpan
Location in State of Mexico
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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 2,400 meters (7,870 ft) above sea level.

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

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Yards 316 387 186 506 445 625 235 525 382 3,607 450 622 406 225 497 575 403 172 388 3,738 7,345
Meters 289 354 170 463 407 572 215 480 349 3,299 411 569 371 206 441 526 369 157 355 3,405 6,704
Par 4 4 3 4 4 5 3 4 4 35 4 5 4 3 4 5 4 3 4 36 71

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, 2019

Kiradech 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, 2019

Charles Howell III (4)

3. The top 30 players from the final 2018 FedExCup Points List

Patton 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 Dubai

Alexander Björk, Russell Knox, Lee Westwood, Danny Willett

6. The top 10 players from the 2019 European Tour Race to Dubai, as of February 11, 2019

David Lipsky, Joost Luiten, Aaron Rai, Richard Sterne

7. The top 2 players not exempt from the final 2018 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit

Shugo Imahira, Shaun Norris

8. The top 2 players from the final 2018 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit

Jake McLeod, Matthew Millar

9. The leading two available players from the final 2017–18 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

George Coetzee, Erik van Rooyen

10. The top 2 players from the final 2018 Asian Tour Order of Merit

Park Sang-hyun, Shubhankar Sharma

11. The highest-ranked available player from Mexico from the Official World Golf Ranking as of February 11, 2019

Abraham 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]

Place Player Score To par
1 Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 63 −8
2 United States Dustin Johnson 64 −7
T3 United States Matt Kuchar 66 −5
United States Justin Thomas
T5 South Africa George Coetzee 67 −4
England Tyrrell Hatton
T7 Thailand Kiradech Aphibarnrat 68 −3
United States Billy Horschel
United States David Lipsky
England Ian Poulter

Second round

Friday, February 22, 2019

Place Player Score To par
1 United States Dustin Johnson 64-67=131 −11
T2 United States Matt Kuchar 66-67=133 −9
Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 63-70=133
T4 England Tommy Fleetwood 70-65=135 −7
Spain Sergio García 69-66=135
T6 England Ian Poulter 68-68=136 −6
Australia Cameron Smith 69-67=136
T8 Thailand Kiradech Aphibarnrat 68-69=137 −5
England Tyrrell Hatton 67-70=137
United States Charles Howell III 69-68=137
South Africa Richard Sterne 69-68=137
United States Tiger Woods 71-66=137

Third round

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Place Player Score To par
1 United States Dustin Johnson 64-67-66=197 −16
2 Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 63-70-68=201 −12
T3 United States Patrick Cantlay 72-67-65=204 −9
Spain Sergio García 69-66-69=204
United States Patrick Reed 72-68-64=204
Australia Cameron Smith 69-67-68=204
T7 Thailand Kiradech Aphibarnrat 68-69-68=205 −8
England Ian Poulter 68-68-69=205
T9 England Tommy Fleetwood 70-65-72=207 −6
United States David Lipsky 68-71-68=207
South Africa Louis Oosthuizen 72-66-69=207
United States Tiger Woods 71-66-70=207

Final round

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Place Player Score To par Money (US$)
1 United States Dustin Johnson 64-67-66-66=263 −21 1,745,000
2 Northern Ireland Rory McIlroy 63-70-68-67=268 −16 1,095,000
T3 Thailand Kiradech Aphibarnrat 68-69-68-68=273 −11 472,000
England Paul Casey 71-72-65-65=273
England Ian Poulter 68-68-69-68=273
T6 United States Patrick Cantlay 72-67-65-70=274 −10 261,667
Spain Sergio García 69-66-69-70=274
Australia Cameron Smith 69-67-68-70=274
9 United States Justin Thomas 66-73-74-62=275 −9 201,000
T10 United States Keegan Bradley 69-73-69-65=276 −8 161,500
United States David Lipsky 68-71-68-69=276
Netherlands Joost Luiten 71-67-74-64=276
United States Tiger Woods 71-66-70-69=276

Scorecard

Final round

Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Par 4 4 3 4 4 5 3 4 4 4 5 4 3 4 5 4 3 4
United States Johnson −16 −16 −15 −15 −15 −16 −16 −16 −16 −17 −18 −18 −18 −19 −20 −21 −21 −21
Northern Ireland McIlroy −12 −13 −13 −12 −12 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −12 −13 −13 −14 −15 −16 −17 −16
Thailand Aphibarnrat −8 −8 −7 −7 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −9 −10 −11
England Casey −6 −7 −8 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −11 −11 −10 −10 −10 −11 −11 −11
England Poulter −7 −8 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −11 −11 −11
United States Cantlay −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −11 −11 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10 −10
Spain García −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −9 −10 −10 −11 −10 −9 −10 −10 −10 −10
Australia 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

Birdie Bogey

Source:[6]

References

  1. ^ Everill, Ben (February 25, 2019). "Monday Finish: Dustin Johnson is basically unbeatable". PGA Tour. Archived from the original on February 26, 2019. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  2. ^ "WGC-Mexico Championship: Dustin Johnson wins 20th PGA Tour title". BBC Sport. February 25, 2019. Archived from the original on March 2, 2019. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  3. ^ "WGC-Mexico Championship: Card of the course". European Tour. March 1, 2017. Archived from the original on March 3, 2017. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
  4. ^ "2019 Qualifiers for majors, The Players, WGCs". PGA Tour. Archived from the original on May 22, 2019. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
  5. ^ "Rory McIlroy leads Dustin Johnson by a stroke at Mexico Championship". ESPN. February 21, 2019.
  6. ^ "WGC-Mexico Championship". ESPN. Archived from the original on February 25, 2019. Retrieved February 24, 2019.
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