2019 WGC-Mexico Championship

The 2019 WGC-Mexico Championship was a golf tournament played February 21–24 at Club de Golf Chapultepec in Naucalpan, Mexico, just west of Mexico City. It was the 20th time the WGC Championship was played, and the first of the World Golf Championships events to be staged in 2019. The approximate elevation of the course's clubhouse is 2,400 meters (7,870 ft) above sea level.

2019 WGC-Mexico Championship

PGA Tour advertisement for the 2019 WGC-Mexico Championship featuring winner Dustin Johnson
Tournament information
Dates	February 21–24, 2019
Location	Naucalpan, Mexico 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	72 players
Cut	None
Prize fund	$10,250,000
Winner's share	$1,745,000
Champion
Dustin Johnson
263 (−21)
Location map
Naucalpan Location in Mexico Show map of Mexico Naucalpan Location in State of Mexico Show map of State of Mexico
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Dustin Johnson eased to a 5 stroke victory ahead of Rory McIlroy to win his third WGC Championship (second in Mexico), and sixth World Golf Championship overall. Although the victory did not immediately return Johnson to world number one, he and the current number one (Justin Rose) were not competing in the following week, which meant he was guaranteed to return to top spot a week later.^[1][2]

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	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

Source:^[3]

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.^[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 11, 2019

Kiradech Aphibarnrat (2,5), Lucas Bjerregaard (5), Keegan Bradley (2,3), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (2), Patrick Cantlay (2,3), Paul Casey (2,3), Bryson DeChambeau (2,3,4,6), Tony Finau (2,3), Matt Fitzpatrick (2), Tommy Fleetwood (2,3,5), Rickie Fowler (2,3), Sergio García (2,5), Branden Grace (2), Emiliano Grillo, Tyrrell Hatton (2,5), Billy Horschel (2,3), Dustin Johnson (2,3), Kevin Kisner (2), Brooks Koepka (2,3), Matt Kuchar (2,4), Marc Leishman (2,3,4), Li Haotong (2,5,6), Shane Lowry (2,6), Hideki Matsuyama (2,3), Rory McIlroy (2,3,5), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4), Francesco Molinari (2,3,5), Alex Norén (2,5), Thorbjørn Olesen (2,5), Louis Oosthuizen (2,6), Eddie Pepperell (2,5), Ian Poulter (2,6), Jon Rahm (2,3,5), Chez Reavie (2), Patrick Reed (2,3,5), Xander Schauffele (2,3,4,5), Webb Simpson (2,3), Cameron Smith (2,3), Jordan Spieth (2), Kyle Stanley (2,3), Henrik Stenson (2), Justin Thomas (2,3,4), Matt Wallace (2,5,6), Bubba Watson (2,3), Gary Woodland (2,3,4), Tiger Woods (2,3)

• Jason Day (2,3), Andrew Putnam (2), Justin Rose (2,3,4,5), and Adam Scott (2) did not play.

2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking, as of February 18, 2019

Charles Howell III (4)

• J. B. Holmes (4) did not play.

3. The top 30 players from the final 2018 FedExCup Points List

Patton Kizzire, Kevin Na, Aaron Wise

4. The top 10 players from the 2019 FedExCup Points List, as of February 18, 2019

5. The top 20 players from the final 2018 European Tour Race to Dubai

Alexander Björk, Russell Knox, Lee Westwood, Danny Willett

6. The top 10 players from the 2019 European Tour Race to Dubai, as of February 11, 2019

David Lipsky, Joost Luiten, Aaron Rai, Richard Sterne

7. The top 2 players not exempt from the final 2018 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit

Shugo Imahira, Shaun Norris

8. The top 2 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 2017–18 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

George Coetzee, Erik van Rooyen

10. The top 2 players from the final 2018 Asian Tour Order of Merit

Park Sang-hyun, Shubhankar Sharma

11. The highest-ranked available player from Mexico from the Official World Golf Ranking as of February 11, 2019

Abraham Ancer

12. Alternates to fill field to 72 (if necessary) from the Official World Golf Ranking as of February 18, 2019

• An Byeong-hun (56)
• Tom Lewis (57)
• Satoshi Kodaira (58)
• Adrián Otaegui (64)
• Ryan Fox (66)
• Kim Si-woo (52), Brandt Snedeker (54) and Adam Hadwin (62) did not play.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Rory McIlroy shot an 8-under-par 63 to take a one-shot lead over Dustin Johnson.^[5]

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Rory McIlroy	63	−8
2	Dustin Johnson	64	−7
T3	Matt Kuchar	66	−5
	Justin Thomas
T5	George Coetzee	67	−4
	Tyrrell Hatton
T7	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	68	−3
	Billy Horschel
	David Lipsky
	Ian Poulter

Second round

Friday, February 22, 2019

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Dustin Johnson	64-67=131	−11
T2	Matt Kuchar	66-67=133	−9
	Rory McIlroy	63-70=133
T4	Tommy Fleetwood	70-65=135	−7
	Sergio García	69-66=135
T6	Ian Poulter	68-68=136	−6
	Cameron Smith	69-67=136
T8	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	68-69=137	−5
	Tyrrell Hatton	67-70=137
	Charles Howell III	69-68=137
	Richard Sterne	69-68=137
	Tiger Woods	71-66=137

Third round

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Dustin Johnson	64-67-66=197	−16
2	Rory McIlroy	63-70-68=201	−12
T3	Patrick Cantlay	72-67-65=204	−9
	Sergio García	69-66-69=204
	Patrick Reed	72-68-64=204
	Cameron Smith	69-67-68=204
T7	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	68-69-68=205	−8
	Ian Poulter	68-68-69=205
T9	Tommy Fleetwood	70-65-72=207	−6
	David Lipsky	68-71-68=207
	Louis Oosthuizen	72-66-69=207
	Tiger Woods	71-66-70=207

Final round

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Dustin Johnson	64-67-66-66=263	−21	1,745,000
2	Rory McIlroy	63-70-68-67=268	−16	1,095,000
T3	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	68-69-68-68=273	−11	472,000
	Paul Casey	71-72-65-65=273
	Ian Poulter	68-68-69-68=273
T6	Patrick Cantlay	72-67-65-70=274	−10	261,667
	Sergio García	69-66-69-70=274
	Cameron Smith	69-67-68-70=274
9	Justin Thomas	66-73-74-62=275	−9	201,000
T10	Keegan Bradley	69-73-69-65=276	−8	161,500
	David Lipsky	68-71-68-69=276
	Joost Luiten	71-67-74-64=276
	Tiger Woods	71-66-70-69=276

Scorecard

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	−16	−16	−15	−15	−15	−16	−16	−16	−16	−17	−18	−18	−18	−19	−20	−21	−21	−21
McIlroy	−12	−13	−13	−12	−12	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−12	−13	−13	−14	−15	−16	−17	−16
Aphibarnrat	−8	−8	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−10	−11
Casey	−6	−7	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−11	−11	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11
Poulter	−7	−8	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−11	−11	−11
Cantlay	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10
García	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−10	−10	−11	−10	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10
Smith	−8	−9	−9	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie

Bogey

Source:^[6]