DID YOU KNOW – WGC – DELL TECHNOLOGIES MATCH PLAY
• Jason Day is trying to follow in the footsteps of Tiger Woods (2003-2004) and make a successful defence of the WGC – Dell Technologies Match Play.
• Should Jason Day win it would be his third victory in the event, having been victorious in 2014 and 2016. Only Tiger Woods has won the same WGC tournament on three or more occasions.
• Jason Day has the best recent record of any of the competitors, The Australian has played in the event six times has been placed in the top ten, four times. He was tied ninth in 2011, third in 2013 and first in both 2014 and 2016.
• Jason Day is bidding to become only the second Australian in European Tour history to make a successful defence of a European Tour title, after Greg Norman (1981-82 Dunlop Masters).
• In 2016 Austin Country Club played host to the WGC – Dell Technologies Match Play for the first time. The Texas venue was also the first time a European Tour event had been played in the American state of Texas.
• Austin Country Club was the sixth different venue to stage the match play contest. They are: La Costa Resort & Spa (1999-2000, 2002-2006), Metropolitan Golf Club (2001), The Galley at Dove Mountain (2007-2008, 2013-2014), Ritz-Carlton Golf Club (2009-2012), TPC Harding Park (2015) and Austin Country Club (2016-2017).
• Of all the WGC events, the Dell Technologies Match Play has been the most successful for European Tour Members, producing six different winners. They are: Darren Clarke (2000), Henrik Stenson (2007), Geoff Ogilvy (2009), Ian Poulter (2010), Luke Donald (2011) and Rory McIlroy (2015).
• Two American players will join the 50 club this week when Jim Furyk and Phil Mickelson join Lee Westwood (56), Sergio Garcia (51) and Adam Scott (50) and celebrate their half century of WGC appearances.
• There will be 29 European Tour Members competing at Austin Country Club in 2017. Four of the 29 will be making their Match Play debuts. They are: Tyrrell Hatton, Jon Rahm, Hideto Tanihara and Jeunghun Wang This brings the total number of European Tour Members to have competed in the WGC – Dell Match Play since 1999 to 130.
