2019 WGC-Mexico Championship

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.

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
19.431°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
Dustin Johnson
263 (−21)
Location map
Naucalpan
Location in Mexico
Naucalpan
Location in State of Mexico

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, 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]

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 Rory McIlroy63−8
2 Dustin Johnson64−7
T3 Matt Kuchar66−5
Justin Thomas
T5 George Coetzee67−4
Tyrrell Hatton
T7 Kiradech Aphibarnrat68−3
Billy Horschel
David Lipsky
Ian Poulter

Second round

Friday, February 22, 2019

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 Dustin Johnson64-67=131−11
T2 Matt Kuchar66-67=133−9
Rory McIlroy63-70=133
T4 Tommy Fleetwood70-65=135−7
Sergio García69-66=135
T6 Ian Poulter68-68=136−6
Cameron Smith69-67=136
T8 Kiradech Aphibarnrat68-69=137−5
Tyrrell Hatton67-70=137
Charles Howell III69-68=137
Richard Sterne69-68=137
Tiger Woods71-66=137

Third round

Saturday, February 23, 2019

PlacePlayerScoreTo par
1 Dustin Johnson64-67-66=197−16
2 Rory McIlroy63-70-68=201−12
T3 Patrick Cantlay72-67-65=204−9
Sergio García69-66-69=204
Patrick Reed72-68-64=204
Cameron Smith69-67-68=204
T7 Kiradech Aphibarnrat68-69-68=205−8
Ian Poulter68-68-69=205
T9 Tommy Fleetwood70-65-72=207−6
David Lipsky68-71-68=207
Louis Oosthuizen72-66-69=207
Tiger Woods71-66-70=207

Final round

Sunday, February 24, 2019

PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)
1 Dustin Johnson64-67-66-66=263−211,745,000
2 Rory McIlroy63-70-68-67=268−161,095,000
T3 Kiradech Aphibarnrat68-69-68-68=273−11472,000
Paul Casey71-72-65-65=273
Ian Poulter68-68-69-68=273
T6 Patrick Cantlay72-67-65-70=274−10261,667
Sergio García69-66-69-70=274
Cameron Smith69-67-68-70=274
9 Justin Thomas66-73-74-62=275−9201,000
T10 Keegan Bradley69-73-69-65=276−8161,500
David Lipsky68-71-68-69=276
Joost Luiten71-67-74-64=276
Tiger Woods71-66-70-69=276

Scorecard

Final round

Hole123456789101112131415161718
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

Birdie Bogey

Source:[6]

References
  1. Everill, Ben (February 25, 2019). "Monday Finish: Dustin Johnson is basically unbeatable". PGA Tour. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  2. "WGC-Mexico Championship: Dustin Johnson wins 20th PGA Tour title". BBC Sport. February 25, 2019. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  3. "WGC-Mexico Championship: Card of the course". European Tour. March 1, 2017. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
  4. "2019 Qualifiers for majors, The Players, WGCs". PGA Tour. 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. Retrieved February 24, 2019.
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