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The Volvo World Match Play Championship was an annual match play men's professional golf tournament which was staged from 1964 to 2014. The World Match Play Championship was a limited field event, originally contested by just eight players before being expanded to sixteen in 1977, and to 24 in 2011.
The match play format fell out of favor in professional individual golf tournaments with the growth of television. The two major match play tournaments in the pre TV era were the PGA Championship, which converted to stroke play format in 1958, [4] and the British PGA Matchplay Championship which faced a slow decline after the introduction of the British PGA Championship in 1955 (which had a ...
World Matchplay may refer to: In golf. WGC Match Play, a World Golf Championships event; Volvo World Match Play Championship, an invitational event on the European Tour; Cisco World Ladies Match Play Championship, held in Japan in 2001 and 2002; HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship, LPGA event held 2005–7; In other sports. World ...
The Scandinavian Masters was an annual golf tournament on the European Tour played in Sweden. In 2020, the tournament became co-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour and was rebranded as the Scandinavian Mixed , in which both male and female golfers competed.
The 2025 Masters will run from April 10-13; with many of its players qualified through prior victories, LIV Golf has structured its schedule to allow players to compete in all the majors.
The PGA Championship was originally a match play event in the early fall, but it varied from May to December. After World War II, the championship was usually in late May or late June, then moved to early July in 1953 and a few weeks later in 1954, with the finals played on Tuesday. As a match play event (with a stroke play qualifier), it was ...
The World Golf Championships came to an end as the PGA Tour announced the 2023 WGC Match Play would be the last WGC tournament. [1] The COVID-19 pandemic severely hampered the WGCs, as several tournaments were moved and the WGC-HSBC Champions in China was never played again once the pandemic began.
The 2013 Volvo World Match Play Championship was the 48th Volvo World Match Play Championship played. It was held 16–19 May, with the champion receiving €800,000. The format was 24 players split into eight pools of three, with the top two in each pool progressing to the knock-out stage. [1] It was an official money event on the European Tour