{"id":30217,"date":"2015-03-03T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wgc-match-play-to-move-to-austin-in-2016\/"},"modified":"2015-03-03T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T12:06:00","slug":"wgc-match-play-to-move-to-austin-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wgc-match-play-to-move-to-austin-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"WGC-Match Play to move to Austin in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The International Federation of PGA Tours announced on Tuesday that the World Golf Championships-Match Play event will be moved to Austin, Texas, in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the WGC-Cadillac Match Play will be contested at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco from April 29-May 3. Next year, the tournament will have a new title sponsor in Dell, which is based in the Greater Austin Area. The championship will be renamed the WGC-Dell Match Play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We couldn&#8217;t be more pleased to welcome Dell as a sponsor of the World Golf Championships and, beginning in 2016, as the new title sponsor of the Match Play,&#8221; PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem said. &#8220;The Match Play has a tremendous future with Dell as the incoming title sponsor, the event&#8217;s move to Austin and the new round-robin format that is being introduced this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time a tour-sanctioned event will be played in Austin since 2003-09 on the Champions Tour. The decision on a host course has yet to be made, but an announcement is expected in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the WGC-Dell Match Play is scheduled to be played the week of March 21-27. The new sponsorship will run through 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Played last season in Arizona as the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, the tournament was won by Jason Day, who defeated Victor Dubuisson 1-up in 23 holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The International Federation of PGA Tours announced on Tuesday that the World Golf Championships-Match Play event will be moved to Austin, Texas, in 2016. This year, the WGC-Cadillac Match Play will be contested at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco from April 29-May 3. Next year, the tournament will have a new title [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}