# 2017 WGC-Mexico Championship

The 2017 WGC-Mexico Championship was a golf tournament played March 2–5 at Club de Golf Chapultepec in Naucalpan, Mexico, just west of Mexico City. It was the 18th time the WGC Championship has been played, and the first of the World Golf Championships events to be staged in 2017. The approximate elevation of the course's clubhouse is 2,400 meters (7,870 ft) above sea level. The Championship was won by Dustin Johnson in his first tournament as the World number 1.

## 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 | 482 | 575 | 403 | 172 | 388 | 3,723 | 7,330 |
| 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:

## 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. 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 20, 2017

An Byeong-hun (2), Daniel Berger (2,3), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (2,5,6), Paul Casey (2,3), Kevin Chappell (2,3), Matt Fitzpatrick (2,5), Rickie Fowler (2,4), Jim Furyk (2), Sergio García (2,6), Branden Grace (2,5), Emiliano Grillo (2,3), Bill Haas (2), Tyrrell Hatton (2,5), J. B. Holmes (2,3), Yuta Ikeda (2,7), Dustin Johnson (2,3,4), Zach Johnson (2), Kevin Kisner (2,3), Russell Knox (2,3), Brooks Koepka (2), Matt Kuchar (2,3), Hideki Matsuyama (2,3,4), William McGirt (3), Rory McIlroy (2,3,5), Phil Mickelson (2,3), Francesco Molinari (2,5), Ryan Moore (2,3), Kevin Na (2,3), Alex Norén (2,5), Louis Oosthuizen (2,5), Scott Piercy (2), Thomas Pieters (2), Jon Rahm (2,4), Patrick Reed (2,3), Justin Rose (2), Charl Schwartzel (2,3), Adam Scott (2,3), Brandt Snedeker (2,3), Jordan Spieth (2,3,4), Henrik Stenson (2,5,6), Justin Thomas (2,3,4), Jimmy Walker (2,3), Wang Jeung-hun (2,5,6), Bubba Watson (2,3), Lee Westwood (2,5), Bernd Wiesberger (2,5,6), Danny Willett (2,5), Chris Wood (5), Gary Woodland (2,3,4)
* Jason Day (2,3) did not compete due to illness.

### 2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking, as of February 27, 2017

Martin Kaymer (5), Brendan Steele (4)

### 3. The top 30 players from the final 2016 FedExCup Points List

Roberto Castro, Jason Dufner, Kim Si-woo, Sean O'Hair, Jhonattan Vegas

### 4. The top 10 players from the 2017 FedExCup Points List, as of February 27, 2017

Mackenzie Hughes, Pat Perez

### 5. The top 20 players from the final 2016 European Tour Race to Dubai

Ross Fisher, Søren Kjeldsen, Joost Luiten, Thorbjørn Olesen, Andy Sullivan

### 6. The top 10 players from the 2017 European Tour Race to Dubai, as of February 20, 2017

Sam Brazel, Tommy Fleetwood, Pablo Larrazábal, David Lipsky, Fabrizio Zanotti

### 7. The top 2 players from the final 2016 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit

Kim Kyung-tae, Hideto Tanihara

### 8. The top 2 players from the final 2016 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit

Matthew Griffin, Michael Hendry

### 9. The top 2 players from the 2016 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit as of December 5

Richard Sterne, Brandon Stone

### 10. The top 2 players from the final 2016 Asian Tour Order of Merit

Marcus Fraser, Scott Hend

### 11. The highest ranked available player from Mexico from the Official World Golf Ranking as of February 20, 2017

Roberto Díaz

## Round summaries
### First round

Thursday, March 2, 2017
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
| T1 | Ross Fisher | 67 | −4 |
| T1 | Phil Mickelson | 67 | −4 |
| T1 | Ryan Moore | 67 | −4 |
| T1 | Jon Rahm | 67 | −4 |
| T1 | Jimmy Walker | 67 | −4 |
| T1 | Lee Westwood | 67 | −4 |
| T7 | Sergio García | 68 | −3 |
| T7 | Matt Kuchar | 68 | −3 |
| T7 | Rory McIlroy | 68 | −3 |
| T7 | Pat Perez | 68 | −3 |
| T7 | Thomas Pieters | 68 | −3 |
| T7 | Chris Wood | 68 | −3 |
| T7 | Fabrizio Zanotti | 68 | −3 |

### Second round

Friday, March 3, 2017
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
| 1 | Rory McIlroy | 68-65=133 | −9 |
| T2 | Ross Fisher | 67-68=135 | −7 |
| T2 | Phil Mickelson | 67-68=135 | −7 |
| T2 | Justin Thomas | 69-66=135 | −7 |
| T5 | Daniel Berger | 70-66=136 | −6 |
| T5 | Dustin Johnson | 70-66=136 | −6 |
| T5 | Andy Sullivan | 71-65=136 | −6 |
| T8 | Roberto Castro | 69-68=137 | −5 |
| T8 | Tyrrell Hatton | 70-67=137 | −5 |
| T8 | J. B. Holmes | 69-68=137 | −5 |
| T8 | Martin Kaymer | 70-67=137 | −5 |
| T8 | Thomas Pieters | 68-69=137 | −5 |
| T8 | Jon Rahm | 67-70=137 | −5 |
| T8 | Fabrizio Zanotti | 68-69=137 | −5 |

### Third round

Saturday, March 4, 2017
| Place | Player | Score | To par |
| 1 | Justin Thomas | 69-66-66=201 | −12 |
| 2 | Dustin Johnson | 70-66-66=202 | −11 |
| T3 | Rory McIlroy | 68-65-70=203 | −10 |
| T3 | Phil Mickelson | 67-68-68=203 | −10 |
| T5 | Jon Rahm | 67-70-67=204 | −9 |
| T5 | Lee Westwood | 67-71-66=204 | −9 |
| T7 | Tommy Fleetwood | 69-70-66=205 | −8 |
| T7 | Tyrrell Hatton | 70-67-68=205 | −8 |
| T7 | Thomas Pieters | 68-69-68=205 | −8 |
| T10 | Daniel Berger | 70-66-70=206 | −7 |
| T10 | J. B. Holmes | 69-68-69=206 | −7 |
| T10 | Matt Kuchar | 68-71-67=206 | −7 |
| T10 | Jordan Spieth | 71-72-63=206 | −7 |

### Final round

Sunday, March 5, 2017
| Place | Player | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
| 1 | Dustin Johnson | 70-66-66-68=270 | −14 | 1,660,000 |
| 2 | Tommy Fleetwood | 69-70-66-66=271 | −13 | 1,045,000 |
| T3 | Ross Fisher | 67-68-72-65=272 | −12 | 497,000 |
| T3 | Jon Rahm | 67-70-67-68=272 | −12 | 497,000 |
| T5 | Thomas Pieters | 68-69-68-68=273 | −11 | 312,500 |
| T5 | Justin Thomas | 69-66-66-72=273 | −11 | 312,500 |
| T7 | Rory McIlroy | 68-65-70-71=274 | −10 | 211,667 |
| T7 | Phil Mickelson | 67-68-68-71=274 | −10 | 211,667 |
| T7 | Brandt Snedeker | 75-68-66-65=274 | −10 | 211,667 |
| 10 | Tyrrell Hatton | 70-67-68-70=275 | −9 | 166,000 |

#### Scorecard

| Eagle | Birdie | Bogey | Double bogey |
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 | −11 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −13 | −13 | −14 | −14 | −15 | −15 | −14 | −13 | −13 | −14 | −14 | −14 | −14 |
| Fleetwood | −9 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −10 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −13 |
| Fisher | −5 | −5 | −6 | −7 | −6 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −8 | −8 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −9 | −9 | −10 | −11 | −12 |
| Rahm | −10 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −12 | −12 | −12 | −13 | −14 | −13 | −12 | −12 |
| Pieters | −9 | −10 | −10 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −12 | −11 |
| Thomas | −13 | −12 | −12 | −11 | −12 | −12 | −10 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −9 | −10 | −11 | −11 | −11 | −11 |
| McIlroy | −10 | −10 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −10 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −10 |
| Mickelson | −9 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −10 | −9 | −7 | −7 | −7 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −10 | −10 | −10 | −10 |
| Snedeker | −5 | −5 | −5 | −5 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −6 | −7 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −9 | −10 | −11 | −10 |
| Hatton | −8 | −8 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −9 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −8 | −10 | −9 | −9 | −9 |