2010 WGC-CA Championship

The 2010 WGC-CA Championship was a golf tournament held March 11–14 at Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Doral, Florida, a suburb west of Miami. It was the eleventh WGC-CA Championship tournament, and the second of four World Golf Championships events staged in 2010.

2010 WGC-CA Championship

Tournament information
Dates	March 11–14, 2010
Location	Doral, Florida, U.S.
Course(s)	Doral Golf Resort & Spa
Tour(s)	PGA Tour European Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	7,334 yards (6,706 m)
Field	68 players
Cut	None
Prize fund	$8,500,000 €6,207,143
Winner's share	$1,400,000 €1,022,353
Champion
Ernie Els
270 (−18)

Doral

Location in the United States

The only players eligible to compete who did not enter were six-time champion Tiger Woods (on an indefinite break from golf) and Ryo Ishikawa (graduating from high school).[1]

Ernie Els, the 2004 champion, won his second WGC title with a bogey-free 66 (−6) in the final round, four strokes ahead of runner-up Charl Schwartzel, the 54-hole co-leader with Els.[2]

Field

The field consisted of players from the top of the Official World Golf Ranking and the money lists/Order of Merit from the six main professional golf tours. 68 of the 70 qualifying players competed. 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 March 1, 2010[3]
Robert Allenby (2), Ángel Cabrera (2,3), Paul Casey (2,5,6), Stewart Cink (2,3), Tim Clark (2), Luke Donald (2,3), Ernie Els (2,3,5), Ross Fisher (2,5), Jim Furyk (2,3), Sergio García (2,5,6), Lucas Glover (2,3), Retief Goosen (2,3), Anders Hansen (2,9), Søren Hansen (2), Pádraig Harrington (2,3,5), Yuta Ikeda (2,7), Thongchai Jaidee (2,5,6,10), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (2,6), Dustin Johnson (2,3,4), Zach Johnson (2,3), Robert Karlsson (2,6), Martin Kaymer (2,5,6), Anthony Kim (2), Søren Kjeldsen (2,5), Matt Kuchar (2), Hunter Mahan (2,3,4), Graeme McDowell (2), Rory McIlroy (2,5), Phil Mickelson (2,3), Edoardo Molinari (2), Francesco Molinari (2,5), Sean O'Hair (2,3), Geoff Ogilvy (2,3,4,5), Kenny Perry (2,3), Ian Poulter (2,4,5,6), Álvaro Quirós (2,5), Charl Schwartzel (2,6,9), Adam Scott (2), Michael Sim (2,8), Vijay Singh (2), Henrik Stenson (2,5), Steve Stricker (2,3,4), Camilo Villegas (2,4,6), Nick Watney (2,3), Mike Weir (2,3), Lee Westwood (2,5,6), Oliver Wilson (2,5), Yang Yong-eun (2,3)

Ryo Ishikawa (2,7) and Tiger Woods (2,3) did not play.

2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking, as of March 8, 2010[4]

3. The top 30 players from the final 2009 FedExCup Points List
Jason Dufner, Brian Gay, Jerry Kelly, Marc Leishman, Steve Marino, Kevin Na, John Senden, Heath Slocum, David Toms, Scott Verplank

4. The top 10 players from the 2010 FedExCup Points List, as of March 8, 2010[5]
Ben Crane, Bill Haas, J. B. Holmes, Ryan Palmer

5. The top 20 players from the final 2009 European Tour Order of Merit
Simon Dyson, Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño, Peter Hanson, Ross McGowan

6. The top 10 players from the European Tour Order of Merit, as of March 1, 2010[6]

7. The top 2 players from the final 2009 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit

8. The top 2 players from the final 2009 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit
Alistair Presnell

9. The top 2 players from the final 2009 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

10. The top 2 players from the final 2009 Asian Tour Order of Merit
Liang Wenchong

Past champions in the field

Player	Country	Year won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Place
Ernie Els	South Africa	2004	68	66	70	66	270	−18	1
Phil Mickelson	United States	2009	71	69	72	68	280	−8	T14
Mike Weir	Canada	2000	73	66	75	70	284	−4	T26
Geoff Ogilvy	Australia	2008	72	71	75	69	287	−1	T45

• Six-time champion Tiger Woods was on an indefinite leave from the tour and did not enter.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Charl Schwartzel	South Africa	67	−5
T2	Robert Allenby	Australia	68	−4
	Ernie Els	South Africa
	Vijay Singh	Fiji
T5	Paul Casey	England	69	−3
	Søren Hansen	Denmark
	J. B. Holmes	United States
	Dustin Johnson	United States
	Francesco Molinari	Italy
	John Senden	Australia

Second round

Friday, March 12, 2010

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Ernie Els	South Africa	68-66=134	−10
2	Robert Allenby	Australia	68-67=135	−9
T3	Bill Haas	United States	71-66=137	−7
	Charl Schwartzel	South Africa	67-70=137
T5	Søren Hansen	Denmark	69-69=138	−6
	Pádraig Harrington	Ireland	70-68=138
T7	Tim Clark	South Africa	70-69=139	−5
	Yuta Ikeda	Japan	71-68=139
	J. B. Holmes	United States	69-70=139
	John Senden	Australia	69-70=139
	Vijay Singh	Fiji	68-71=139
	Mike Weir	Canada	73-66=139

Third round

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Ernie Els	South Africa	68-66-70=204	−12
	Charl Schwartzel	South Africa	67-70-67=204
3	Pádraig Harrington	Ireland	70-68-67=205	−11
4	Robert Allenby	Australia	68-67-71=206	−10
5	Bill Haas	United States	71-66-70=207	−9
6	Martin Kaymer	Germany	70-72-66=208	−8
T7	Paul Casey	England	69-72-68=209	−7
	Søren Hansen	Denmark	69-69-71=209
	Matt Kuchar	United States	71-71-67=209
	Vijay Singh	Fiji	68-71-70=209

Final round

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Ernie Els	South Africa	68-66-70-66=270	−18	1,400,000
2	Charl Schwartzel	South Africa	67-70-67-70=274	−14	850,000
T3	Pádraig Harrington	Ireland	70-68-67-72=277	−11	426,667
	Martin Kaymer	Germany	70-72-66-69=277
	Matt Kuchar	United States	71-71-67-68=277
T6	Paul Casey	England	69-72-68-69=278	−10	214,300
	Bill Haas	United States	71-66-70-71=278
	Graeme McDowell	Northern Ireland	74-68-70-66=278
	Alistair Presnell	Australia	72-70-72-64=278
	Álvaro Quirós	Spain	72-69-69-68=278

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	5	4	4	3	4	4	4	5	3	5	4	5	3	4	3	4	4	4
Els	−13	−13	−14	−15	−15	−15	−15	−16	−16	−16	−16	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−18	−18
Schwartzel	−12	−13	−13	−13	−12	−13	−14	−15	−15	−16	−15	−16	−16	−16	−15	−15	−14	−14
Harrington	−11	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−12	−11	−10	−11	−11	−11
Kaymer	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11
Kuchar	−8	−7	−8	−7	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−11	−11	−11

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie

Bogey

Source:[7]

References

1. "Stricker, Mickelson headline field for 2010 CA Championship". PGA Tour. March 5, 2010. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
2. "Els gets first win in two years". ESPN. Associated Press. March 14, 2010. Archived from the original on March 23, 2010. Retrieved March 15, 2010.
3. Official World Golf Ranking – February 28, 2010
4. Official World Golf Ranking – March 7, 2010
5. "FedEx Cup Standings - Week 10". Archived from the original on 2013-04-04. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
6. European tour - This Week - 1 March 2010
7. "World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship". ESPN. Retrieved 30 August 2018.

External links

• ESPN: Leaderboard
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site