Sybase Match Play Championship

Sybase Match Play Championship
Tournament information
Location Gladstone, New Jersey, U.S.
Established 2010
Course(s) Hamilton Farm Golf Club
Par 72
Length 6,585 yards (6,021 m)[1]
Tour(s) LPGA Tour
Format Match play - 6 rounds
Prize fund $1,500,000
Month played May
Final year 2012
Tournament record score
Score 3&1 Sun Young Yoo (2010)
Final champion
Spain Azahara Muñoz

The Sybase Match Play Championship was a women's professional golf tournament for three seasons on the LPGA Tour, held at Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Gladstone, New Jersey. First played in 2010, it was the only match play format event on the LPGA Tour schedule. The previous match play tournament was the HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship, played from 2005 to 2007, with all three events at Hamilton Farm.

The title sponsor was Sybase, an enterprise software and services company headquartered in Berkeley, California. It previously sponsored the Sybase Classic, a stroke play event on the LPGA Tour also held in the New York-New Jersey area through 2009. Sybase was acquired by SAP in 2010, which elected not to continue as title sponsor in 2013.[2][3]

Azahara Muñoz won her first title on the LPGA Tour at the final edition in 2012.[4][5][6]

Selection process

The 64-player field for the 2012 event was selected as follows:[7]

Schedule

A six-round event scheduled over four days, one round each was played on Thursday and Friday to reduce the field from 64 to 16 for Saturday. Two rounds were scheduled for each day on the weekend, with morning and afternoon sessions.

2012 course layout

Hamilton Farm Golf Club

Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal[1]
Yards3815071093775013844211703963,3273265681783824094011553245153,2586,585
Par453454434364534443453672

(Reflects the layout for the LPGA event; the nines are switched for HFGC members.) [8]

Winners

Year Dates Champion Score Runner-up Tournament
location 		Purse
($) 		Winner's
share ($)
2012May 17–20 Spain Azahara Muñoz 2&1 United States Candie Kung Hamilton Farm Golf Club 1,500,000 375,000
2011May 19–22 Norway Suzann Pettersen 1 up United States Cristie Kerr Hamilton Farm Golf Club 1,500,000 375,000
2010May 20–23 South Korea Sun Young Yoo 3&1 United States Angela Stanford Hamilton Farm Golf Club 1,500,000 375,000

Prize money breakdown

Place Record Description US ($)
1 6–0Champion 375,000
2 5–1 Runner-up 225,000
3 5–1 Third place 150,000
4 4–2 Fourth place 112,500
T5 3–1 Losing quarter-finalists x 4 37,500
T9 2–1 Losing third round x 8 18,750
T17 1–1 Losing second round x 16 7,740
T33 0–1 Losing first round x 32 3,865
Total 1,500,000

References

  1. 1 2 "Sybase Match Play Championship - Course Info, 2012". sybasematchplaychampionship.com. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
  2. ↑ Baldry, Beth Ann (January 15, 2013). "LPGA builds on Lewis' success with '13 schedule". Golf Week.
  3. ↑ Mell, Randall (January 15, 2013). "LPGA releases 2013 schedule". NBC Sports.
  4. ↑ "Munoz wins Sybase Match Play; Pressel loses semifinal after slow-play penalty". GOLF.com. Associated Press. May 20, 2012.
  5. ↑ Williams, Julie (May 20, 2012). "5 Things: Munoz wins amid semifinal controversy". Golf Week.
  6. ↑ Sirak, Ron (May 28, 2012). "Match Play: When The Business Of Golf Can Get Rather Personal". Golf Digest.
  7. ↑ "2012 Field List". sybasematchplaychampionship.com. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
  8. ↑ "Course Tour". hamiltonfarmgolfclub. Retrieved May 20, 2012.

External links

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