2017 WGC-HSBC Champions

2017 WGC-HSBC Champions
Tournament information
Dates 26–29 October 2017
Location Shanghai, China
Course(s) Sheshan Golf Club
Tour(s) Asian Tour
European Tour
PGA Tour
Statistics
Par 72
Length 7,261 yards (6,639 m)
Field 78 players
Cut None
Champion
«2016
2018»
Sheshan
Golf Club
Location in China

The 2017 WGC-HSBC Champions will be a golf tournament played from 26–29 October 2017 at the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai, China. It will be the ninth WGC-HSBC Champions tournament, and the fourth of four World Golf Championships events held in the 2017 calendar year.

Field

The following is a list of players who qualified for the 2017 WGC-HSBC Champions. The criteria is towards the leaders in points lists rather than tournament winners. Players who qualify from multiple categories will be listed in the first category in which they are eligible with the other qualifying categories in parentheses next to the player's name.

1. Winners of the four major championships and The Players Championship
2. Winners of the previous four World Golf Championships

Hideki Matsuyama

3. Top 50 from the OWGR on 16 October
4. Top 30 from the final 2017 FedEx Cup points list (if there are less than five available players, players beyond 30th will be selected to increase the number to five)
5. Top 30 from the Race to Dubai as of 23 October
6. The leading four available players from the Asian Tour Order of Merit as of 23 October
7. The leading two available players from the Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit as of 23 October
8. The leading two available players from the final 2016 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit

Matthew Griffin, Michael Hendry

9. The leading two available players from the final 2016 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit
10. Six players from China
11. Alternates, if needed to fill the field of 78 players

Past champions expected in the field

PlayerCountryYear won
Hideki Matsuyama  Japan 2016

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