2017 WGC-Mexico Championship

The 2017 WGC-Mexico Championship was a golf tournament played March 2–5 at Club de Golf Chapultepec in Naucalpan, Mexico, just west of Mexico City. It was the 18th time the WGC Championship has been played, and the first of the World Golf Championships events to be staged in 2017. The approximate elevation of the course's clubhouse is 2,400 meters (7,870 ft) above sea level. The Championship was won by Dustin Johnson in his first tournament as the World number 1.[1][2][3]

2017 WGC-Mexico Championship

Tournament information
Dates	March 2–5, 2017
Location	Naucalpan, Mexico
Course(s)	Club de Golf Chapultepec
Tour(s)	PGA Tour European Tour
Statistics
Par	71
Length	7,330 yards (6,703 m)
Field	77 players
Cut	None
Prize fund	$9,750,000 €9,183,384
Winner's share	$1,660,000 €1,563,530
Champion
Dustin Johnson
270 (−14)

Mexico City

Location in Mexico

Course layout

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
Yards	316	387	186	506	445	625	235	525	382	3,607	450	622	406	225	482	575	403	172	388	3,723	7,330
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

Source:[4]

Field

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.[5][6] 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 20, 2017

An Byeong-hun (2), Daniel Berger (2,3), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (2,5,6), Paul Casey (2,3), Kevin Chappell (2,3), Matthew Fitzpatrick (2,5), Rickie Fowler (2,4), Jim Furyk (2), Sergio García (2,6), Branden Grace (2,5), Emiliano Grillo (2,3), Bill Haas (2), Tyrrell Hatton (2,5), J. B. Holmes (2,3), Yuta Ikeda (2,7), Dustin Johnson (2,3,4), Zach Johnson (2), Kevin Kisner (2,3), Russell Knox (2,3), Brooks Koepka (2), Matt Kuchar (2,3), Hideki Matsuyama (2,3,4), William McGirt (3), Rory McIlroy (2,3,5), Phil Mickelson (2,3), Francesco Molinari (2,5), Ryan Moore (2,3), Kevin Na (2,3), Alex Norén (2,5), Louis Oosthuizen (2,5), Scott Piercy (2), Thomas Pieters (2), Jon Rahm (2,4), Patrick Reed (2,3), Justin Rose (2), Charl Schwartzel (2,3), Adam Scott (2,3), Brandt Snedeker (2,3), Jordan Spieth (2,3,4), Henrik Stenson (2,5,6), Justin Thomas (2,3,4), Jimmy Walker (2,3), Wang Jeung-hun (2,5,6), Bubba Watson (2,3), Lee Westwood (2,5), Bernd Wiesberger (2,5,6), Danny Willett (2,5), Chris Wood (5), Gary Woodland (2,3,4)

• Jason Day (2,3) did not compete due to illness.[7]

2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking, as of February 27, 2017

Martin Kaymer (5), Brendan Steele (4)

3. The top 30 players from the final 2016 FedExCup Points List

Roberto Castro, Jason Dufner, Kim Si-woo, Sean O'Hair, Jhonattan Vegas

4. The top 10 players from the 2017 FedExCup Points List, as of February 27, 2017

Mackenzie Hughes, Pat Perez

5. The top 20 players from the final 2016 European Tour Race to Dubai

Ross Fisher, Søren Kjeldsen, Joost Luiten, Thorbjørn Olesen, Andy Sullivan

6. The top 10 players from the 2017 European Tour Race to Dubai, as of February 20, 2017

Sam Brazel, Tommy Fleetwood, Pablo Larrazábal, David Lipsky, Fabrizio Zanotti

7. The top 2 players from the final 2016 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit

Kim Kyung-tae, Hideto Tanihara

8. The top 2 players from the final 2016 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit

Matthew Griffin, Michael Hendry

9. The top 2 players from the 2016 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit as of December 5

Richard Sterne, Brandon Stone

10. The top 2 players from the final 2016 Asian Tour Order of Merit

Marcus Fraser, Scott Hend

11. The highest ranked available player from Mexico from the Official World Golf Ranking as of February 20, 2017

Roberto Díaz

Nationalities in the field

North America (31)	South America (3)	Europe (25)	Oceania (6)	Asia (7)	Africa (5)
Canada (1)	Argentina (1)	England (10)	Australia (5)	Japan (3)	South Africa (5)
Mexico (1)	Paraguay (1)	Northern Ireland (1)	New Zealand (1)	South Korea (4)
United States (29)	Venezuela (1)	Scotland (1)
		Austria (1)
		Belgium (1)
		Denmark (2)
		Germany (1)
		Italy (1)
		Netherlands (1)
		Spain (4)
		Sweden (2)

Past champions in the field

Player	Country	Year won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Place
Dustin Johnson	United States	2015	70	66	66	68	270	−14	1
Phil Mickelson	United States	2009	67	68	68	71	274	−10	T7
Justin Rose	England	2012	70	72	71	71	284	E	T38
Adam Scott	Australia	2016	73	76	68	68	285	+1	T45
Patrick Reed	United States	2014	71	76	72	71	290	+6	T61

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Ross Fisher	England	67	−4
	Phil Mickelson	United States
	Ryan Moore	United States
	Jon Rahm	Spain
	Jimmy Walker	United States
	Lee Westwood	England
T7	Sergio García	Spain	68	−3
	Matt Kuchar	United States
	Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland
	Pat Perez	United States
	Thomas Pieters	Belgium
	Chris Wood	England
	Fabrizio Zanotti	Paraguay

Second round

Friday, March 3, 2017

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland	68-65=133	−9
T2	Ross Fisher	England	67-68=135	−7
	Phil Mickelson	United States	67-68=135
	Justin Thomas	United States	69-66=135
T5	Daniel Berger	United States	70-66=136	−6
	Dustin Johnson	United States	70-66=136
	Andy Sullivan	England	71-65=136
T8	Roberto Castro	United States	69-68=137	−5
	Tyrrell Hatton	England	70-67=137
	J. B. Holmes	United States	69-68=137
	Martin Kaymer	Germany	70-67=137
	Thomas Pieters	Belgium	68-69=137
	Jon Rahm	Spain	67-70=137
	Fabrizio Zanotti	Paraguay	68-69=137

Third round

Saturday, March 4, 2017

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Justin Thomas	United States	69-66-66=201	−12
2	Dustin Johnson	United States	70-66-66=202	−11
T3	Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland	68-65-70=203	−10
	Phil Mickelson	United States	67-68-68=203
T5	Jon Rahm	Spain	67-70-67=204	−9
	Lee Westwood	England	67-71-66=204
T7	Tommy Fleetwood	England	69-70-66=205	−8
	Tyrrell Hatton	England	70-67-68=205
	Thomas Pieters	Belgium	68-69-68=205
T10	Daniel Berger	United States	70-66-70=206	−7
	J. B. Holmes	United States	69-68-69=206
	Matt Kuchar	United States	68-71-67=206
	Jordan Spieth	United States	71-72-63=206

Final round

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Dustin Johnson	United States	70-66-66-68=270	−14	1,660,000
2	Tommy Fleetwood	England	69-70-66-66=271	−13	1,045,000
T3	Ross Fisher	England	67-68-72-65=272	−12	497,000
	Jon Rahm	Spain	67-70-67-68=272
T5	Thomas Pieters	Belgium	68-69-68-68=273	−11	312,500
	Justin Thomas	United States	69-66-66-72=273
T7	Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland	68-65-70-71=274	−10	211,667
	Phil Mickelson	United States	67-68-68-71=274
	Brandt Snedeker	United States	75-68-66-65=274
10	Tyrrell Hatton	England	70-67-68-70=275	−9	166,000

Scorecard

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	4	3	4	4	5	3	4	4	4	5	4	3	4	5	4	3	4
Johnson	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−14	−14	−15	−15	−14	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14	−14
Fleetwood	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−10	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12	−13
Fisher	−5	−5	−6	−7	−6	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−9	−10	−10	−9	−9	−10	−11	−12
Rahm	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−12	−12	−12	−13	−14	−13	−12	−12
Pieters	−9	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−12	−11
Thomas	−13	−12	−12	−11	−12	−12	−10	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−9	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11
McIlroy	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−10	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10
Mickelson	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−9	−7	−7	−7	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10
Snedeker	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−8	−8	−8	−9	−10	−11	−10
Hatton	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−10	−9	−9	−9

References

1. DiMeglio, Steve (March 5, 2017). "Dustin Johnson wins WGC-Mexico Championship in his debut as No. 1". USA Today. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
2. Corrigan, James (March 5, 2017). "Dustin Johnson wins WGC-Mexico Championship to strengthen grip on world No 1 ranking". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
3. Casey, Phil (March 6, 2017). "Dustin Johnson wins WGC Mexico Championship to tighten grip on world No 1 spot as Rory McIlroy falls away". Independent. Retrieved March 8, 2017.
4. "WGC-Mexico Championship: Card of the course". European Tour. March 1, 2017. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
5. "First 30 players qualify for the World Golf Championships-Mexico Championship". PGA Tour. October 3, 2016. Archived from the original on December 3, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
6. "Inside the Field: WGC-Mexico Championship". PGA Tour. February 24, 2017.
7. "Jason Day withdraws from World Golf Championship". ESPN. February 26, 2017.

External links

• Official website
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site