The 2010 WGC-CA Championship was a golf tournament held March 11–14 at Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Doral, Florida, a suburb west of Miami. It was the eleventh WGC-CA Championship tournament, and the second of four World Golf Championships events staged in 2010.

The only players eligible to compete who did not enter were six-time champion Tiger Woods (on an indefinite break from golf) and Ryo Ishikawa (graduating from high school).

Ernie Els, the 2004 champion, won his second WGC title with a bogey-free 66 (−6) in the final round, four strokes ahead of runner-up Charl Schwartzel, the 54-hole co-leader with Els.

Field The field consisted of players from the top of the Official World Golf Ranking and the money lists/Order of Merit from the six main professional golf tours. 68 of the 70 qualifying players competed. 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 March 1, 2010Official World Golf Ranking – February 28, 2010 Robert Allenby (2), Ángel Cabrera (2,3), Paul Casey (2,5,6), Stewart Cink (2,3), Tim Clark (2), Luke Donald (2,3), Ernie Els (2,3,5), Ross Fisher (2,5), Jim Furyk (2,3), Sergio García (2,5,6), Lucas Glover (2,3), Retief Goosen (2,3), Anders Hansen (2,9), Søren Hansen (2), Pádraig Harrington (2,3,5), Yuta Ikeda (2,7), Thongchai Jaidee (2,5,6,10), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (2,6), Dustin Johnson (2,3,4), Zach Johnson (2,3), Robert Karlsson (2,6), Martin Kaymer (2,5,6), Anthony Kim (2), Søren Kjeldsen (2,5), Matt Kuchar (2), Hunter Mahan (2,3,4), Graeme McDowell (2), Rory McIlroy (2,5), Phil Mickelson (2,3), Edoardo Molinari (2), Francesco Molinari (2,5), Sean O'Hair (2,3), Geoff Ogilvy (2,3,4,5), Kenny Perry (2,3), Ian Poulter (2,4,5,6), Álvaro Quirós (2,5), Charl Schwartzel (2,6,9), Adam Scott (2), Michael Sim (2,8), Vijay Singh (2), Henrik Stenson (2,5), Steve Stricker (2,3,4), Camilo Villegas (2,4,6), Nick Watney (2,3), Mike Weir (2,3), Lee Westwood (2,5,6), Oliver Wilson (2,5), Yang Yong-eun (2,3)

Ryo Ishikawa (2,7) and Tiger Woods (2,3) did not play.

2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking, as of March 8, 2010Official World Golf Ranking – March 7, 2010

3. The top 30 players from the final 2009 FedExCup Points List Jason Dufner, Brian Gay, Jerry Kelly, Marc Leishman, Steve Marino, Kevin Na, John Senden, Heath Slocum, David Toms, Scott Verplank

4. The top 10 players from the 2010 FedExCup Points List, as of March 8, 2010 Ben Crane, Bill Haas, J. B. Holmes, Ryan Palmer

5. The top 20 players from the final 2009 European Tour Order of Merit Simon Dyson, Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño, Peter Hanson, Ross McGowan

6. The top 10 players from the European Tour Order of Merit, as of March 1, 2010

7. The top 2 players from the final 2009 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit

8. The top 2 players from the final 2009 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit Alistair Presnell

9. The top 2 players from the final 2009 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

10. The top 2 players from the final 2009 Asian Tour Order of Merit Liang Wenchong

Round summaries First round Thursday, March 11, 2010 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Charl Schwartzel67−5T2 Robert Allenby68−4 Ernie Els Vijay SinghT5 Paul Casey69−3 Søren Hansen J. B. Holmes Dustin Johnson Francesco Molinari John Senden

Second round Friday, March 12, 2010

PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Ernie Els68-66=134−102 Robert Allenby68-67=135−9T3 Bill Haas71-66=137−7 Charl Schwartzel67-70=137T5 Søren Hansen69-69=138−6 Pádraig Harrington70-68=138T7 Tim Clark70-69=139−5 Yuta Ikeda71-68=139 J. B. Holmes69-70=139 John Senden69-70=139 Vijay Singh68-71=139 Mike Weir73-66=139

Third round Saturday, March 13, 2010 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Ernie Els68-66-70=204−12 Charl Schwartzel67-70-67=2043 Pádraig Harrington70-68-67=205−114 Robert Allenby68-67-71=206−105 Bill Haas71-66-70=207−96 Martin Kaymer70-72-66=208−8T7 Paul Casey69-72-68=209−7 Søren Hansen69-69-71=209 Matt Kuchar71-71-67=209 Vijay Singh68-71-70=209

Final round Sunday, March 14, 2010 PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 Ernie Els 68-66-70-66=270 −18 1,400,0002 Charl Schwartzel 67-70-67-70=274 −14 850,000T3 Pádraig Harrington 70-68-67-72=277 −11 426,667 Martin Kaymer 70-72-66-69=277 Matt Kuchar 71-71-67-68=277T6 Paul Casey 69-72-68-69=278 −10 214,300 Bill Haas 71-66-70-71=278 Graeme McDowell 74-68-70-66=278 Alistair Presnell 72-70-72-64=278 Álvaro Quirós 72-69-69-68=278

Scorecard Final round Hole123456789101112131415161718Par544344453 545343444 Els −13 −13 −14 −15 −15 −15 −15 −16 −16 −16 −16 −17 −17 −17 −17 −17 −18 −18 Schwartzel −12 −13 −13 −13 −12 −13 −14 −15 −15 −16 −15 −16 −16 −16 −15 −15 −14 −14 Harrington −11 −11 −11 −11 −12 −12 −12 −12 −12 −13 −13 −13 −12 −11 −10 −11 −11 −11 Kaymer −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −10 −11 −11 −11 −11 −10 −10 −11 −11 −11 −11 Kuchar −8 −7 −8 −7 −8 −8 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −9 −10 −11 −11 −11 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par Eagle -->BirdieBogey Source:

References

External links ESPN: Leaderboard Coverage on the European Tour's official site