WGC – Dell Technologies Match Play – Preview & Picks

March 22, 2022

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The PGA Tour’s version of March Madness if here. We head to Austin Country Club for the WGC – Dell Technologies Match Play event. This is one of the most entertaining events on the Tour all year so it should be a good one.

Apologies for the short article this week, I’ve been super busy so I didn’t have that much time to do a detailed writeup on all of my picks.

Tournament Information:

Dates: March 23rd, 2022- March 27th, 2022
Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Course: Austin Country Club
Course Type: Parkland
Par: 71 (4x 3’s / 11x 4’s / 3x 5’s)
Length: 7,108 yards
Format: Match Play – Bracket Style
Field/ Cut: 64 Players | Group Play – Match Play
Greens: Bermuda Overseeded Poa Trivialis
Fairways: Overseeded Rye/ Fescue
Rough: Bermuda 2″
Stimpmeter: 12.0 ft. (Average)
Purse: $12,000,000 / Winner $2.160 Million
FedEx Cup Points: 550
Bunkers: 110
Water Hazards: – (In-Play on 7 Holes)
Average Green Size: 5,500 sq. ft.

Course Architect/ Comparable Courses:

Course Architect: Pete Dye (1984)
Renovations: Rod Whitman (2015)
Comparable Courses:
- TPC Sawgrass – THE PLAYERS (Results)
- TPC River Highlands – Travelers Championship (Results)

TV Information:

Round 1: Wednesday, March 23, 2022
- Golf Channel – 2:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET

Round 1: Thursday, March 24th, 2022
- Golf Channel – 2:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET

Round 2: Friday, March 25th, 2022
- Golf Channel – 2:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET

Round 3: Saturday, March 25th, 2022
- Golf Channel – 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM ET
- NBC – 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET

Round 4: Sunday, March 26th, 2022
- Golf Channel – 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM ET
- NBC – 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM ET

Weather:

Wednesday: Mostly Sunny 58 F, 10 mp/h NW, 28% Humidity, 0% Chance of Rain
Thursday: Sunny 60 F, 11 mp/h NW, 23% Humidity, 0% Chance of Rain
Friday: Sunny 66 F, 5 mp/h NE, 26% Humidity, 0% Chance of Rain
Saturday: Sunny 69 F, 8 mp/h S, 36% Humidity, 0% Chance of Rain
Sunday: Mostly Sunny 72 F, 13 mp/h SSW, 35% Humidity, 0% Chance of Rain

Key Statistics:

Strokes Gained: Tee to Green
Strokes Gained: Putting (Bermuda)
Match Play History (All Events)
Recent Form

Previous Winners Scores & Prices:

2021: Billy Horschel
- Price: 90-1
2020: Cancelled after the first round due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Price: N/A
2019: Kevin Kisner
- Price: 80-1
2018: Bubba Watson
- Price: 50-1
2017: Dustin Johnson
- Price: 70-1

Format:

The field is divided into four groups ranking the players 1-64. Tier 1 is players ranked 1-16, Tier 2 is players ranked 17-32, Tier 3 is players ranked 33-48, and Tier 4 is players ranked 49-64. There’s sixteen different groups that are randomly drawn and include one player from each tier.

Over the course of the first three days (Wednesday through Friday), each player will play one 18-hole match against every person in their group. A match victory is worth 1 point, while a tied match is worth half a point. The winner of the group is obviously the golfer with the most points who will then enter a 16-man single elimination bracket on the weekend. The round of 16 will take place on Saturday morning with the advancing eight golfers competing again later on that day. The semifinals is on Sunday morning with the finals and third-place match taking place on Sunday afternoon.

Bracket: