The 2019 WGC-HSBC Champions was a golf tournament played from 31 October – 3 November 2019 at the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai, China. It was the eleventh WGC-HSBC Champions tournament, and the fourth of four World Golf Championships events held in the 2019 calendar year.
Rory McIlroy beat defending champion Xander Schauffele at the first hole of a sudden-death playoff after making a birdie 4 to Schauffele's par 5. It is his first WGC-HSBC Champions victory, and third World Golf Championship win overall, having already won the WGC Match Play and WGC Invitational.
Field The following is a list of players who qualified for the 2019 WGC-HSBC Champions. The criteria are towards the leaders in points lists rather than tournament winners. Players who qualified from multiple categories are 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 Shane Lowry (3,5), Rory McIlroy (3,4) Brooks Koepka (2,3,4) did not play due to injury. Gary Woodland (3,4) and Tiger Woods (3) did not play.
2. Winners of the previous four World Golf Championships Kevin Kisner (3,4), Xander Schauffele (3,4) Dustin Johnson (3,4) did not play due to injury.
3. Top 50 from the OWGR on 14 October An Byeong-hun, Abraham Ancer (4), Keegan Bradley, Rafa Cabrera-Bello (5), Paul Casey (4,5), Tony Finau (4,5), Matt Fitzpatrick (5), Tommy Fleetwood (4,5), Sergio García (5), Adam Hadwin, Tyrrell Hatton, Billy Horschel, Im Sung-jae (4), Hideki Matsuyama (4), Phil Mickelson, Francesco Molinari (5), Louis Oosthuizen (4,5), Ian Poulter (5), Andrew Putnam, Chez Reavie (4), Patrick Reed (4), Justin Rose (4,5), Adam Scott (4), Jordan Spieth, Henrik Stenson, Matt Wallace (5), Bubba Watson, Bernd Wiesberger (5), Danny Willett (5) Patrick Cantlay (4), Jason Day, Bryson DeChambeau (4), Rickie Fowler (4), Jim Furyk, Matt Kuchar (4), Marc Leishman (4), Kevin Na, Eddie Pepperell, Jon Rahm (4,5), Webb Simpson (4), Brandt Snedeker (4), and Justin Thomas (4) did not play.
4. Top 30 from the final 2019 FedEx Cup Playoffs points list (if there are less than five available players, players beyond 30th will be selected to increase the number to five) Corey Conners, Lucas Glover, Charles Howell III, Jason Kokrak, Kevin Tway
5. Top 30 from the Race to Dubai as of 21 October Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Jorge Campillo, Justin Harding (9), Benjamin Hébert, Kurt Kitayama, Romain Langasque, Li Haotong, Mike Lorenzo-Vera, Joost Luiten, Robert MacIntyre, Andrea Pavan, Victor Perez, Richard Sterne, Erik van Rooyen, Paul Waring
6. The leading four available players from the Asian Tour HSBC Qualification Standings as of 21 October Scott Hend, Jazz Janewattananond, Masahiro Kawamura, Jbe' Kruger
7. The leading two available players from the Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit as of 21 October Ryo Ishikawa, Chan Kim Shugo Imahira did not play.
8. The leading two available 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 2018–19 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit Bryce Easton, Zander Lombard
10. Six players from China Bai Zhengkai, Dou Zecheng, Liang Wenchong, Wu Ashun, 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 14 October Next available player, not otherwise exempt, from Race to Dubai as of 21 October, OWGR as of 14 October, final 2019 FedEx Cup list Mikumu Horikawa (Japan Golf Tour; Shaun Norris did not play) Neil Schietekat (Sunshine Tour) Lee Tae-hee (Asian Tour) Daniel Nisbet (PGA Tour of Australasia) Matthias Schwab (Race to Dubai) Cameron Smith (OWGR) J. T. Poston (FedEx Cup) Yosuke Asaji (Japan Golf Tour) Chang Yi-keun (Asian Tour)
Round summaries First round Thursday, 31 October 2019
Li Haotong took a one-shot lead over Victor Perez by shooting an 8-under-par 64. Defending champion Xander Schauffele was two strokes back in a tied for third.
PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Li Haotong 64 −82 Victor Perez 65 −7T3 Matt Fitzpatrick 66 −6 Im Sung-jae Xander Schauffele Adam ScottT7 Corey Conners 67 −5 Rory McIlroy Matthias SchwabT10 Abraham Ancer 68 −4 Louis Oosthuizen Danny Willett Zhang Xinjun
Second round Friday, 1 November 2019
Matt Fitzpatrick shot a 5-under-par 67 to take a one shot lead over Rory McIlroy. First round leader Li Haotong shot 72 to drop into a tied for sixth place. Defending champion Xander Schauffele remained in a tied for third place with a second round 69.
PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Matt Fitzpatrick 66-67=133 −112 Rory McIlroy 67-67=134 −10T3 Im Sung-jae 66-69=135 −9 Xander Schauffele 66-69=135 Adam Scott 66-69=135T6 Li Haotong 64-72=136 −8 Victor Perez 65-71=1368 Louis Oosthuizen 68-69=137 −7T9 Matthias Schwab 67-71=138 −6 Paul Waring 73-65=138
Third round Saturday, 2 November 2019 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Rory McIlroy 67-67-67=201 −152 Louis Oosthuizen 68-69-65=202 −14T3 Matt Fitzpatrick 66-67-70=203 −13 Xander Schauffele 66-69-68=2035 Paul Waring 73-65-66=204 −12T6 Im Sung-jae 66-69-70=205 −11 Jason Kokrak 69-70-66=205T8 Abraham Ancer 68-71-67=206 −10 Kevin Kisner 72-67-67=206T10 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 69-72-66=207 −9 Victor Perez 65-71-71=207 Matthias Schwab 67-71-69=207
Final round Sunday, 3 November 2019
Final leaderboard Champion(c) = past champion
PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 Rory McIlroy 67-67-67-68=269 −19 1,745,0002 Xander Schauffele (c) 66-69-68-66=269 −19 1,095,0003 Louis Oosthuizen 68-69-65-69=271 −17 602,000T4 Abraham Ancer 68-71-67-67=273 −15 370,000 Victor Perez 65-71-71-66=273 Matthias Schwab 67-71-69-66=2737 Matt Fitzpatrick 66-67-70-71=274 −14 256,000T8 Jason Kokrak 69-70-66-71=276 −12 200,333 Patrick Reed 72-69-69-66=276 Paul Waring 73-65-66-72=276 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T11 Im Sung-jae 66-69-70-72=277 −11 155,000 Hideki Matsuyama (c) 75-67-68-67=277 Adam Scott 66-69-75-67=277T14 An Byeong-hun 69-71-69-69=278 −10 127,000 Tyrrell Hatton 72-73-68-65=278 Jazz Janewattananond 70-69-69-70=278T17 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 69-72-66-72=279 −9 111,000 Robert MacIntyre 70-69-73-67=279 Yuan Yechun 69-70-74-66=279T20 Corey Conners 67-73-74-66=280 −8 99,000 Henrik Stenson 70-70-70-70=280T22 Masahiro Kawamura 72-74-66-69=281 −7 92,500 Francesco Molinari (c) 74-67-71-69=281T24 Keegan Bradley 73-72-71-66=282 −6 85,000 Billy Horschel 69-71-73-69=282 Li Haotong 64-72-74-72=282 J. T. Poston 69-73-72-68=282T28 Scott Hend 75-69-70-69=283 −5 76,667 Kevin Kisner 72-67-67-77=283 Kurt Kitayama 70-72-73-68=283 Phil Mickelson (c) 71-69-75-68=283 Justin Rose (c) 69-70-71-73=283 Bubba Watson (c) 70-69-72-72=283T34 Jorge Campillo 73-69-70-72=284 −4 72,500 Joost Luiten 70-74-72-68=284T36 Charles Howell III 74-73-67-71=285 −3 70,500 Andrew Putnam 71-71-73-70=285T38 Yosuke Asaji 70-75-76-65=286 −2 67,000 Paul Casey 75-71-71-69=286 Mike Lorenzo-Vera 70-74-72-70=286 Erik van Rooyen 73-71-71-71=286 Zhang Xinjun 68-73-73-72=286T43 Bryce Easton 70-73-74-70=287 −1 63,000 Shane Lowry 72-72-72-71=287 Jordan Spieth 70-73-74-70=287T46 Adam Hadwin 74-77-69-68=288 E 60,000 Chan Kim 71-70-75-72=288 Romain Langasque 75-68-69-76=288T49 Lucas Glover 73-70-74-72=289 +1 56,500 Mikumu Horikawa 74-68-77-70=289 Andrea Pavan 71-70-75-73=289 Bernd Wiesberger 70-73-71-75=289T53 Tony Finau 69-70-75-76=290 +2 52,875 Tommy Fleetwood 74-76-73-67=290 Sergio García 72-68-75-75=290 Justin Harding 75-74-71-70=290T57 Rafa Cabrera-Bello 73-72-69-77=291 +3 51,000 Jake McLeod 70-73-79-69=291 Neil Schietekat 70-72-74-75=291T60 Jbe' Kruger 71-71-75-75=292 +4 49,150 Chez Reavie 69-74-75-74=292 Cameron Smith 70-72-74-76=292 Kevin Tway 71-72-72-77=292 Matt Wallace 69-84-70-69=292T65 Benjamin Hébert 70-74-77-73=294 +6 48,125 Lee Tae-hee 75-73-73-73=294T67 Dou Zecheng 71-80-72-72=295 +7 47,500 Ryo Ishikawa 69-79-74-73=295 Matthew Millar 69-73-74-79=295T70 Bai Zhengkai 73-76-74-73=296 +8 46,875 Richard Sterne 72-75-74-75=29672 Zander Lombard 73-73-74-78=298 +10 46,500T73 Liang Wenchong 74-74-75-76=299 +11 46,000 Danny Willett 68-77-78-76=299 Wu Ashun 80-71-72-76=29976 Chang Yi-keun 76-75-75-78=304 +16 45,50077 Daniel Nisbet 77-80-79-73=309 +21 45,250WD Ian Poulter (c) 73-74=147 +3 –
Playoff PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)1 Rory McIlroy 4 −1 1,745,0002 Xander Schauffele 5 E 1,095,000 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