The 2018 WGC-HSBC Champions was a golf tournament played from 25–28 October 2018 at the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai, China. It was the tenth WGC-HSBC Champions tournament, and the fourth of four World Golf Championships events held in the 2018 calendar year.

Xander Schauffele beat Tony Finau at the first hole of a sudden-death playoff after making a birdie 4 to Finau's par 5. Defending champion Justin Rose finished third, four strokes behind.

Field The following is a list of players who qualified for the 2018 WGC-HSBC Champions. The criteria are towards the leaders in points lists rather than tournament winners. Players who qualified from multiple categories will be listed in the first category in which they are eligible with the other qualifying categories in parentheses next to the player's name.

1. Winners of the four major championships and The Players Championship Brooks Koepka (3,4), Francesco Molinari (3,4,5), Patrick Reed (3,4,5) Webb Simpson (3,4) did not play.

2. Winners of the previous four World Golf Championships Justin Rose (3,4,5) Phil Mickelson (3,4), Justin Thomas (3,4), and Bubba Watson (3,4) did not play.

3. Top 50 from the OWGR on 8 October An Byeong-hun, Kiradech Aphibarnrat (5), Keegan Bradley (4), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (5), Patrick Cantlay (4), Paul Casey (4), Jason Day (4), Tony Finau (4), Matt Fitzpatrick (5), Tommy Fleetwood (4,5), Branden Grace, Brian Harman, Tyrrell Hatton (5), Charley Hoffman, Billy Horschel (4), Dustin Johnson (4), Satoshi Kodaira, Hideki Matsuyama (4), Rory McIlroy (4,5), Kevin Na (4), Alex Norén (5), Thorbjørn Olesen (5), Ian Poulter (5), Jon Rahm (4,5), Xander Schauffele (4,5), Adam Scott, Cameron Smith (4), Brandt Snedeker, Kyle Stanley (4) Eddie Pepperell (5) and Henrik Stenson did not play due to injury. Daniel Berger, Bryson DeChambeau (4), Rickie Fowler (4), Sergio García, Kevin Kisner, Matt Kuchar, Marc Leishman (4), Louis Oosthuizen, Jordan Spieth, Gary Woodland (4), and Tiger Woods (4) did not play.

4. Top 30 from the final 2018 FedEx Cup points list (if there are fewer than five available players, players beyond 30th will be selected to increase the number to five) Emiliano Grillo, Patton Kizzire, Pan Cheng-tsung, Andrew Putnam, Chez Reavie Aaron Wise did not play.

5. Top 30 from the Race to Dubai as of 15 October Lucas Bjerregaard, Alexander Björk, Jorge Campillo, Ryan Fox, Russell Knox, Alexander Lévy, Li Haotong, Adrián Otaegui, Thomas Pieters, Shubhankar Sharma, Brandon Stone, Andy Sullivan, Julian Suri, Matt Wallace

Chris Wood was a late withdrawal with a neck injury and was not replaced in the field.

6. The leading four available players from the Asian Tour Order of Merit as of 15 October Gaganjeet Bhullar, Justin Harding, Park Sang-hyun, Scott Vincent

7. The leading two available players from the Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit as of 15 October Yuta Ikeda, Yuki Inamori Shugo Imahira did not play.

8. The leading two available players from the final 2017 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit Adam Bland, Brett Rumford

9. The leading two available players from the final 2017–18 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit George Coetzee, Erik van Rooyen

10. Six players from China Liang Wenchong, Liu Yanwei, Wu Ashun, Xiao Bowen, Yuan Yechun, Zhang Xinjun

11. Alternates, if needed to fill the field of 78 players The next available player on the Orders of Merit of the Asian Tour, Japan Golf Tour, Sunshine Tour, and PGA Tour of Australasia, ranked in order of their position in the OWGR as of 8 October Next available player, not otherwise exempt, from Race to Dubai as of 15 October, OWGR as of 8 October, FedEx Cup list John Catlin (Asian Tour; no alternates available from Japan Golf Tour) J. C. Ritchie (Sunshine Tour) Jason Norris (PGA Tour of Australasia) Andrea Pavan (Race to Dubai) Pat Perez (OWGR; Zach Johnson and Luke List did not play) Adam Hadwin (FedEx Cup) Sihwan Kim (Asian Tour) Oliver Bekker (Sunshine Tour) Jason Scrivener (PGA Tour of Australasia)

Round summaries First round Thursday, 25 October 2018 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Patrick Reed 64 −8T2 Tony Finau 66 −6 Xander Schauffele4 Matt Fitzpatrick 67 −5T5 Kiradech Aphibarnrat 68 −4 Rafa Cabrera-Bello Tommy Fleetwood Billy Horschel Pan Cheng-tsungT10 Keegan Bradley 69 −3 George Coetzee Ian Poulter Justin Rose Adam Scott Matt Wallace

Second round Friday, 26 October 2018 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Tony Finau 66-67=133 −11T2 Tommy Fleetwood 68-68=136 −8 Patrick Reed 64-72=136 Justin Rose 69-67=1365 Xander Schauffele 66-71=137 −76 Patrick Cantlay 70-68=138 −6T7 Kiradech Aphibarnrat 68-71=139 −5 Keegan Bradley 69-70=139 Emiliano Grillo 70-69=139 Pat Perez 70-69=139 Thomas Pieters 75-64=139 Kyle Stanley 70-69=139

Third round Saturday, 27 October 2018 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Tony Finau 66-67-70=203 −13T2 Patrick Reed 64-72-70=206 −10 Justin Rose 69-67-70=206 Xander Schauffele 66-71-69=206T5 Tommy Fleetwood 68-68-72=208 −8 Andrew Putnam 70-71-67=208T7 Kiradech Aphibarnrat 68-71-70=209 −7 Keegan Bradley 69-70-70=2099 Jason Day 71-70-69=210 −6T10 Patrick Cantlay 70-68-73=211 −5 Billy Horschel 68-72-71=211 Thorbjørn Olesen 75-69-67=211

Final round Sunday, 28 October 2018 PlacePlayerScoreTo parPrize money (US$)T1 Tony Finau 66-67-70-71=274 −14 Playoff Xander Schauffele 66-71-69-68=2743 Justin Rose 69-67-70-72=278 −10 587,000T4 Kiradech Aphibarnrat 68-71-70-71=280 −8 393,000 Andrew Putnam 70-71-67-72=2806 Keegan Bradley 69-70-70-72=281 −7 289,000T7 Patrick Cantlay 70-68-73-72=283 −5 210,563 Tommy Fleetwood 68-68-72-75=283 Thorbjørn Olesen 75-69-67-72=283 Patrick Reed 64-72-70-77=283

Scorecard Hole123456789101112131415161718Par454343454 443454435 Schauffele −10 −11 −11 −10 −11 −11 −11 −12 −12 −12 −12 −12 −13 −13 −12 −12 −13 −14 Finau −12 −13 −13 −13 −13 −13 −13 −13 −13 −14 −13 −12 −12 −13 −13 −13 −13 −14 Rose −10 −11 −11 −11 −11 −11 −12 −12 −11 −10 −10 −10 −11 −12 −11 −11 −11 −10 Aphibarnrat −6 −7 −7 −6 −7 −6 −6 −7 −7 −7 −7 −7 −6 −7 −7 −8 −8 −8 Putnam −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −8 −7 −8 −7 −7 −7 −8 −7 −7 −7 −8 Bradley −7 −7 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −6 −5 −6 −6 −7 −6 −7 −7 −7 Reed −10 −10 −10 −9 −9 −8 −8 −8 −8 −6 −6 −6 −6 −7 −6 −6 −5 −5 Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par {|class="wikitable" span = 50 style="font-size:85%; |- |style="background: Pink;" width=10| |Birdie |style="background: PaleGreen;" width=10| |Bogey |style="background: Green;" width=10| |Double bogey |} Source:

Playoff PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 Xander Schauffele 4 −1 1,700,0002 Tony Finau 5 E 1,072,000 The sudden-death playoff started at the 18th hole.

References

External links Official site Coverage on Asian Tour's official site Coverage on European Tour's official site Coverage on PGA Tour's official site