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2018 WGC-Mexico ChampionshipTournament information

Dates| March 1–4, 2018
Location| Naucalpan, Mexico
19°25′52″N 99°14′38″W﻿ / ﻿19.431°N 99.244°W﻿ / 19.431; -99.244
Course(s)| Club de Golf Chapultepec
Tour(s)| PGA Tour
European Tour
Statistics
Par| 71
Length| 7,345 yards (6,716 m)
Field| 64 players
Cut| None
Prize fund| $10,000,000
€8,190,676
Winner's share| $1,700,000
€1,392,415
Champion
Phil Mickelson
268 (−16), playoff
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The 2018 WGC-Mexico Championship was a golf tournament played March 1–4 at Club de Golf Chapultepec in Naucalpan, Mexico, just west of Mexico City. It was the 19th time the WGC Championship was played, and the first of the World Golf Championships events to be staged in 2018. The approximate elevation of the course's clubhouse is 2,400 meters (7,870 ft) above sea level.

Phil Mickelson won the tournament on the first playoff hole;[1][2] it was his first tour victory in over 4½ years, since The Open Championship in 2013.

## Course layout[edit]

Club de Golf Chapultepec

Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total

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Yards | 316 | 387 | 186 | 506 | 445 | 625 | 235 | 525 | 382 | 3,607 | 450 | 622 | 406 | 225 | 497 | 575 | 403 | 172 | 388 | 3,738 | 7,345
Meters | 289 | 354 | 170 | 463 | 407 | 572 | 215 | 480 | 349 | 3,299 | 411 | 569 | 371 | 206 | 441 | 526 | 369 | 157 | 355 | 3,405 | 6,704
Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 71

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## Field[edit]

The field consisted of players from the top of the Official World Golf Ranking and the money lists/Orders of Merit from the six main professional golf tours.[4] 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 February 19, 2018

Kiradech Aphibarnrat (2,5), Daniel Berger (2,3), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (2,5), Patrick Cantlay (2,3), Paul Casey (2,3), Kevin Chappell (2,3), Jason Dufner (2,3), Tony Finau (2,3,4), Ross Fisher (2,5,6), Matt Fitzpatrick (2,5), Tommy Fleetwood (2,5,6), Rickie Fowler (2,3), Dylan Frittelli (2,5,6), Sergio García (2,3,5), Branden Grace (2,5), Adam Hadwin (2,3), Brian Harman (2,3), Tyrrell Hatton (2,5), Charley Hoffman (2,3), Yuta Ikeda (2), Dustin Johnson (2,3,4), Kevin Kisner (2,3), Satoshi Kodaira (2,7), Matt Kuchar (2,3), Li Haotong (2,5,6), Marc Leishman (2,3), Phil Mickelson (2), Francesco Molinari (2,5), Alex Norén (2,5), Louis Oosthuizen (2), Pat Perez (2,3,4), Thomas Pieters (2,5), Jon Rahm (2,3,4,5), Chez Reavie (2,4), Patrick Reed (2,3), Justin Rose (2,3,5), Xander Schauffele (2,3), Charl Schwartzel (2), Webb Simpson (2,3), Jordan Spieth (2,3), Brendan Steele (2,4), Justin Thomas (2,3,4), Jhonattan Vegas (2,3), Bubba Watson (2), Gary Woodland (2,3,4)

* Brooks Koepka (2,3) did not play due to injury.[5]
* Jason Day (2,3,4), Hideki Matsuyama (2,3), Rory McIlroy (2,5,6), and Henrik Stenson (2,5) did not play.

2\. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking, as of February 26, 2018

3\. The top 30 players from the final 2017 FedExCup Points List

Russell Henley, Kyle Stanley

4\. The top 10 players from the 2018 FedExCup Points List, as of February 26, 2018

Patton Kizzire

5\. The top 20 players from the final 2017 European Tour Race to Dubai

Paul Dunne, Peter Uihlein, Bernd Wiesberger

6\. The top 10 players from the 2018 European Tour Race to Dubai, as of February 19, 2018

Jorge Campillo, Joost Luiten, Wade Ormsby, Chris Paisley, Shubhankar Sharma

7\. The top 2 players not exempt from the final 2017 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit

Yūsaku Miyazato

* Chan Kim did not play due to a wrist injury.[6]

8\. The top 2 players from the final 2017 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit

Adam Bland, Brett Rumford

9\. The top 2 players from the final 2017 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

Dean Burmester, Brandon Stone

10\. The top 2 players from the final 2017 Asian Tour Order of Merit

Gavin Green, David Lipsky

11\. The highest ranked available player from Mexico from the Official World Golf Ranking as of February 19, 2018

Abraham Ancer

## Round summaries[edit]

### First round[edit]

Thursday, March 1, 2018

Place | Player | Score | To par

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1 |  Louis Oosthuizen | 64 | −7
T2 |  Chris Paisley | 65 | −6
Xander Schauffele
Shubhankar Sharma
T5 |  Kiradech Aphibarnrat | 66 | −5
Rafa Cabrera-Bello
7 |  Jon Rahm | 67 | −4
T8 |  Tony Finau | 68 | −3
Rickie Fowler
Sergio García
Brian Harman
Pat Perez

### Second round[edit]

Friday, March 2, 2018

Place | Player | Score | To par

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1 |  Shubhankar Sharma | 65-66=131 | −11
T2 |  Rafa Cabrera-Bello | 66-67=133 | −9
Sergio García | 68-65=133
Xander Schauffele | 65-68=133
T5 |  Kiradech Aphibarnrat | 66-69=135 | −7
Brian Harman | 68-67=135
Dustin Johnson | 69-66=135
Louis Oosthuizen | 64-71=135
Pat Perez | 68-67=135
Brendan Steele | 69-66=135
Bubba Watson | 69-66=135

### Third round[edit]

Saturday, March 3, 2018

Place | Player | Score | To par

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1 |  Shubhankar Sharma | 65-66-69=200 | −13
T2 |  Rafa Cabrera-Bello | 66-67-69=202 | −11
Sergio García | 68-65-69=202
Tyrrell Hatton | 70-68-64=202
Phil Mickelson | 69-68-65=202
T6 |  Brian Harman | 68-67-68=203 | −10
Dustin Johnson | 69-66-68=203
Pat Perez | 68-67-68=203
Xander Schauffele | 65-68-70=203
10 |  Justin Thomas | 72-70-62=204 | −9

### Final round[edit]

Sunday, March 4, 2018

Place | Player | Score | To par | Money (US$)

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T1 |  Phil Mickelson | 69-68-65-66=268 | −16 | Playoff
Justin Thomas | 72-70-62-64=268
T3 |  Rafa Cabrera-Bello | 66-67-69-67=269 | −15 | 510,500
Tyrrell Hatton | 70-68-64-67=269
T5 |  Kiradech Aphibarnrat | 66-69-71-65=271 | −13 | 330,500
Brian Harman | 68-67-68-68=271
T7 |  Sergio García | 68-65-69-70=272 | −12 | 239,750
Dustin Johnson | 69-66-68-69=272
T9 |  Adam Hadwin | 70-71-67-66=274 | −10 | 182,000
Shubhankar Sharma | 65-66-69-74=274
Bubba Watson | 69-66-72-67=274

#### Scorecard[edit]

Final round

Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18

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Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4
Mickelson | −12 | −13 | −12 | −13 | −13 | −14 | −14 | −14 | −14 | −15 | −14 | −14 | −14 | −14 | −15 | −16 | −16 | −16
Thomas | −10 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −13 | −13 | −14 | −14 | −14 | −15 | −15 | −14 | −16
Cabrera-Bello | −13 | −13 | −13 | −13 | −12 | −12 | −13 | −13 | −13 | −13 | −13 | −12 | −13 | −13 | −14 | −14 | −14 | −15
Hatton | −12 | −13 | −13 | −14 | −14 | −13 | −13 | −13 | −13 | −13 | −12 | −13 | −13 | −14 | −16 | −16 | −16 | −15
Aphibarnrat | −7 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −11 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −13 | −13 | −12 | −12 | −13
Harman | −11 | −11 | −11 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −11 | −11 | −12 | −13 | −13 | −14 | −14 | −13 | −13 | −13
Sharma | −13 | −13 | −13 | −13 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −13 | −12 | −11 | −11 | −12 | −11 | −10

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

| Eagle  |  | Birdie  |  | Bogey  |  | Double bogey

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#### Playoff[edit]

The playoff started on the par-3 17th hole. From the tee, Thomas went past the green and Mickelson found the putting surface. Thomas left his difficult chip well short, Mickelson just missed his birdie putt and tapped in for par; Thomas missed the par putt he needed to extend the playoff.

Place | Player | Score | To par | Money (US$)

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1 |  Phil Mickelson | 3 | E | 1,700,000
2 |  Justin Thomas | – | – | 1,072,000

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Phil Mickelson wins playoff in Mexico, ends long drought". USA Today. Associated Press. March 4, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
2. ^ "Phil Mickelson ends drought with playoff win in Mexico Championship". ESPN. Associated Press. March 5, 2018. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
3. ^ "WGC-Mexico Championship: Card of the course". European Tour. March 1, 2017. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
4. ^ "2018 Qualifiers for majors, The Players, WGCs". PGA Tour. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
5. ^ Everill, Ben. "Koepka sidelined for 10 weeks, hoping to play Masters". PGA Tour. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
6. ^ "Chan Kim: Withdraws from WGC-Mexico Championship". The Score. Retrieved March 1, 2018.
7. ^ "World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship". ESPN. Retrieved August 4, 2018.

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