2019 WGC-HSBC Champions

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][2]

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

1. Mikumu Horikawa (Japan Golf Tour; Shaun Norris did not play)
2. Neil Schietekat (Sunshine Tour)
3. Lee Tae-hee (Asian Tour)
4. Daniel Nisbet (PGA Tour of Australasia)
5. Matthias Schwab (Race to Dubai)
6. Cameron Smith (OWGR)
7. J. T. Poston (FedEx Cup)
8. Yosuke Asaji (Japan Golf Tour)
9. 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.^[3]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Li Haotong	64	−8
2	Victor Perez	65	−7
T3	Matt Fitzpatrick	66	−6
	Im Sung-jae
	Xander Schauffele
	Adam Scott
T7	Corey Conners	67	−5
	Rory McIlroy
	Matthias Schwab
T10	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.^[4]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Matt Fitzpatrick	66-67=133	−11
2	Rory McIlroy	67-67=134	−10
T3	Im Sung-jae	66-69=135	−9
	Xander Schauffele	66-69=135
	Adam Scott	66-69=135
T6	Li Haotong	64-72=136	−8
	Victor Perez	65-71=136
8	Louis Oosthuizen	68-69=137	−7
T9	Matthias Schwab	67-71=138	−6
	Paul Waring	73-65=138

Third round

Saturday, 2 November 2019

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Rory McIlroy	67-67-67=201	−15
2	Louis Oosthuizen	68-69-65=202	−14
T3	Matt Fitzpatrick	66-67-70=203	−13
	Xander Schauffele	66-69-68=203
5	Paul Waring	73-65-66=204	−12
T6	Im Sung-jae	66-69-70=205	−11
	Jason Kokrak	69-70-66=205
T8	Abraham Ancer	68-71-67=206	−10
	Kevin Kisner	72-67-67=206
T10	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

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Rory McIlroy	67-67-67-68=269	−19	1,745,000
2	Xander Schauffele (c)	66-69-68-66=269	−19	1,095,000
3	Louis Oosthuizen	68-69-65-69=271	−17	602,000
T4	Abraham Ancer	68-71-67-67=273	−15	370,000
	Victor Perez	65-71-71-66=273
	Matthias Schwab	67-71-69-66=273
7	Matt Fitzpatrick	66-67-70-71=274	−14	256,000
T8	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 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
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=277
T14	An Byeong-hun	69-71-69-69=278	−10	127,000
	Tyrrell Hatton	72-73-68-65=278
	Jazz Janewattananond	70-69-69-70=278
T17	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	69-72-66-72=279	−9	111,000
	Robert MacIntyre	70-69-73-67=279
	Yuan Yechun	69-70-74-66=279
T20	Corey Conners	67-73-74-66=280	−8	99,000
	Henrik Stenson	70-70-70-70=280
T22	Masahiro Kawamura	72-74-66-69=281	−7	92,500
	Francesco Molinari (c)	74-67-71-69=281
T24	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=282
T28	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=283
T34	Jorge Campillo	73-69-70-72=284	−4	72,500
	Joost Luiten	70-74-72-68=284
T36	Charles Howell III	74-73-67-71=285	−3	70,500
	Andrew Putnam	71-71-73-70=285
T38	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=286
T43	Bryce Easton	70-73-74-70=287	−1	63,000
	Shane Lowry	72-72-72-71=287
	Jordan Spieth	70-73-74-70=287
T46	Adam Hadwin	74-77-69-68=288	E	60,000
	Chan Kim	71-70-75-72=288
	Romain Langasque	75-68-69-76=288
T49	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=289
T53	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=290
T57	Rafa Cabrera-Bello	73-72-69-77=291	+3	51,000
	Jake McLeod	70-73-79-69=291
	Neil Schietekat	70-72-74-75=291
T60	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=292
T65	Benjamin Hébert	70-74-77-73=294	+6	48,125
	Lee Tae-hee	75-73-73-73=294
T67	Dou Zecheng	71-80-72-72=295	+7	47,500
	Ryo Ishikawa	69-79-74-73=295
	Matthew Millar	69-73-74-79=295
T70	Bai Zhengkai	73-76-74-73=296	+8	46,875
	Richard Sterne	72-75-74-75=296
72	Zander Lombard	73-73-74-78=298	+10	46,500
T73	Liang Wenchong	74-74-75-76=299	+11	46,000
	Danny Willett	68-77-78-76=299
	Wu Ashun	80-71-72-76=299
76	Chang Yi-keun	76-75-75-78=304	+16	45,500
77	Daniel Nisbet	77-80-79-73=309	+21	45,250
WD	Ian Poulter (c)	73-74=147	+3	–

Playoff

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Rory McIlroy	4	−1	1,745,000
2	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