2022 WGC-Dell Match Play Bracket Breakdown and Picks

AUSTIN, TEXAS – MARCH 28: The Walter Hagen Cup is shown during the final round of the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin Country Club on March 28, 2021 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

2022 WGC-Dell Match Play Bracket Breakdown and Picks

The bracket for the 2022 WGC- Dell Match Play is out and with it comes golf’s version of March Madness.

The Match Play in Austin, Texas, this week is the only World Golf Championship event on the 2022 schedule after what was formerly known as the WGC St. Jude Invitational was changed to become the first event of this year’s FedEx Cup playoffs. The WGC-Mexico was also removed from the PGA’s revamped schedule for 2022.

The WGC-HSBC Champions is part of the PGA’s 2021-22 schedule still, but of course, that already took place last October. So what remains for 2022 is this week’s single WGC event.

The Pete Dye-designed Austin Country Club is set to host the WGC-Dell Matchplay for a fifth time, it has been the host of this unique change of pace event since 2016. The par 71 design is perfectly suited for match play as it sits right around 7,100 yards in length and features scorable short par 4’s, several of which that play under 425 yards in length. The course also features three different par 5’s with each presenting eagle opportunities for the longer hitters in the field.

Austin Country Club’s beautiful design sees its front nine holes played in the Texas woodland country, while the back nine is played at lower elevation alongside Lake Austin. The par 5, 12th hole, plays right around 580 yards downhill into a green that features the historic Pennbacker bridge as a backdrop.

The majority of the top golfers in the World are in attendance this week with the only exceptions being, Harris English, Hideki Matsuyama, Rory McIlroy, Cameron Smith, last week’s winner Sam Burns, and of course Phil Mickelson who remains away from the sport.

The field of 64 has once again been broken down into 16 groups, each of these groups contains four golfers with the top seed in each group representing a player from inside of the top 16 of the Official World Golf Rankings. Golfers will compete in a round-robin format over the first several days before each group winner advances to the ‘Sweet-Sixteen’. From that point on it is single elimination until a winner is crowned on Sunday.