For the best website experience, we recommend updating your browser. Match Play : Match Play is the game played by holes instead of by strokes. Halved Hole : A hole is halved when each side holes out in the same number of strokes.
All Square : A match is all square when each side has won the same number of holes as the other side, or when each hole has been halved. Dormie : A match is dormie when a side is as many holes up as there are holes remaining to be played.
A player may concede a hole or a match at any time prior to the conclusion of the hole or the match. Concession of a stroke, hole or match may not be declined or withdrawn.
The field will be divided into 16 four-player groups. The highest ranked player in the field Seed 1, and the lowest ranked player in the field Seed The top 16 players will be the top player in each of the 16 groups. So the No. The remaining players in each group will be picked randomly live on the Golf Channel as part of the Dell Technologies Match Play Draw show.
At the end of those three rounds, the player in each group with the best record moves on to the Round of 16, when a bracket-style, single-elimination tournament begins. However, in a number of groups, there will be a tie between two or more players for the group victory. In those cases, the PGA Tour, since , has decided those ties with a sudden-death, stroke-play playoff in each group that goes off the first tee at host Austin Country Club. For each match in round-robin play, a win earns 1 point, a loss nets 0 points and a tie earns 0.
There is no sudden death after a match in group play under any circumstance. The WGC-Dell Match Play is always a refreshing and welcomed break from the long slog of hole stroke-play events played on the PGA Tour, and in the middle of March Madness brackets gone awry which is all of them , it's always fun to have another team or player sheet to fill out.
Let's take a closer look at this week's contest with odds and prop bets provided via William Hill Sportsbook. Ryder preview: The Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits is still six months away, but this is one of the few opportunities we have to get these kind of match-play games that can serve as a facsimile for the actual event. My final four -- Jon Rahm vs. Patrick Cantlay and Paul Casey vs. Bryson DeChambeau -- includes four Ryder Cuppers, but there are plenty of other potential juicy matchups.
Will we get Justin Thomas-Jordan Spieth in the sweet 16? How about Patrick Reed-Jordan Spieth to go to the final four? There are plenty of combinations here, and hopefully at least a few of them come to fruition this weekend. Abilene Christian? Upsets abound this week because playing one match against one other player is akin to playing a quarter of a college basketball game.
It might not be the fairest way to determine the best team or player , but it's certainly intense and a hell of a lot of fun. Here's Justin Ray with the statistical details. Upsets are still everywhere in this event: in the four years it has been held at Austin Country Club, a player seeded 50th or lower has reached the quarterfinals or further seven times. That's not a huge deal to some of the players in this field, but to others it might be.
Also, it's a fun way to frame various matches in the later stages of the tournament.
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