Phil Mickelson withdrew from this week’s WGC-Cadillac Match Play Championship late Sunday evening, which means Mikko Illonen is a late addition to the 64-man field at TPC Harding Park.
A 90-minute “Selection Monday” show to determine the groupings that will complete the competition bracket for the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Match Play will be showcased live on a Golf Central Special airing April 27 at noon ET, on Golf Channel.
The new format this year will assign the top seed for each of the 16 four-player groups based on the top 16 players in order of their position in the Official World Golf Ranking.
The remaining three players in each group will be determined by a blind draw from each of three pools depending on their standing in the OWGR (17-32, 33-48 and 49-64).
Each group will play round-robin matches within their group Wednesday through Friday. The player with the best record in each group advances to the Round of 16 for single-elimination match play.
Here are the player pools for Monday’s blind draw show:
| Top 16 1. Rory McIlroy 2. Jordan Spieth 3. Henrik Stenson 4. Bubba Watson 5. Jim Furyk 6. Justin Rose 7. Jason Day 8. Dustin Johnson 9. Adam Scott 10. Sergio Garcia 11. Jimmy Walker 12. J.B. Holmes 13. Rickie Fowler 14. Matt Kuchar 15. Patrick Reed 16. Hideki Matsuyama | Group 17-32 17. Martin Kaymer 18. Billy Horschel 19. Brooks Koepka 20. Kevin Na 21. Victor Dubuisson 22. Ryan Palmer 23. Bill Haas 24. Zach Johnson 25. Chris Kirk 26. Lee Westwood 27. Ian Poulter 28. Ryan Moore 29. Louis Oosthuizen 30. Jamie Donaldson 31. Hunter Mahan 32. Graeme McDowell | Group 33-48 33. Keegan Bradley 34. Anirban Lahiri 35. Brandt Snedeker 36. Paul Casey 37. Charl Schwartzel 38. Branden Grace 39. Bernd Wiesberger 40. Matt Every 41. Stephen Gallacher 42. Brendon Todd 43. Joost Luiten 44. Thongchai Jaidee 45. Russell Henley 46. Webb Simpson 47. Shane Lowry 48. Danny Willett | Group 49-64 49. Charley Hoffman 50. Gary Woodland 51. Marc Warren 52. Alexander Levy 53. Jason Dufner 54. Tommy Fleetwood 55. Harris English 56. Marc Leishman 57. Andy Sullivan 58. Matt Jones 59. George Coetzee 60. John Senden 61. Ben Martin 62. Mikko Ilonen 63. Miguel A. Jimenez 64. Francesco Molinari |
Following the telecast at 1:30 p.m. ET, tune into GolfChannel.com for further analysis and discussion of the groupings on Monday Scramble, a new, weekly digital program.