The 2015 World Golf Championships - Match Play Championship will move to TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, with a new date and format also unveiled.
Following an eight year run in Arizona, first at The Gallery at Dove Mountain from 2007-08 and then at The Golf Club at Dove Mountain from 2009-14, the event will now be held from April 27-May 3, 2015, with the 64-player field being divided into 16 four-player groups.
Each group will play round-robin matches within their group on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The player with the best record in each of the four groups advances to the Round of 16 for single-elimination match play (in the event of a two-way tie in a group, head-to-head results will be used as the tiebreaker; a three-way tie will require a sudden-death playoff). The Round of 16 will be played Saturday morning, followed by the Quarterfinals Saturday afternoon.
The Semi-finals will be played on Sunday morning, followed by the Championship Match and Consolation Match on Sunday afternoon.
TPC Harding Park, a municipal course owned by the City and County of San Francisco, will also host the 2020 US PGA Championship – the first time it has been held in San Francisco. The only other US PGA Championship to be conducted at a municipal golf facility was the 1974 Championship at Tanglewood Golf Club in Clemmons, North Carolina.
It was also announced that TPC Harding Park will host the Presidents Cup in 2025, having previously held the contest in 2009.
