World Matchplay Golf Championship

The World Match Play Championship is an annual golf match play tournament, world match play history states that it is played in the Autumn normally in October.  The event is played by 16 of the worlds highest ranked golfers and consists of 36-hole matches played in a single day, and is an official money event on the European Tour.  The event ranks high on the payday list for golfers and the total world match play prize fund of over 3 million euros up for grabs.  Past world match play winners have been ranked in the top two of the Official World Golf Rankings and this can be a very hard competition to win.

Up until 2007 this event was sponsored by HSBC as part of a 10 year sponsorship deal however mid way through using their get out clause, HSBC chose not to continue their association with the event, from 2009 the event will be sponsored by Volvo as part of a 3 year deal, the world match play qualification process has also been amended.  Due to the problem with sponsorship it will skip a year and change location, from 2009 the event will be played at the Finca Cortesin Golf Club near Malaga, Spain, having previously been played at the Wentworth Golf Club  near London, England.

The 2009 World Match Play Championship

In a major shake up of the event as well as the change in sponsorship the location for the 2009  World Match Play Championship has changed from Wentworth in England, it's host of the last 44 years to the Finca Cortesin golf course near Malaga on the Costa Del Sol in Spain. This has been greeted with surprise by many in the golfing community who had come to see Wentworth as the events natural home.  However the course is an inspiring 6800 metres from the first tee and comes in at 72 par which should come to create a fantastic game of golf for all involved and with this being the first Volvo Matchplay Tournament at Finca Cortesin the field should be wide open.

World Match Play Championship Players

The worlds best players will arrive in Spain in 2009 to lay claim to the impressive money pot on offer, Tiger Woods should be injury free and seven times World Matchplay champion Ernie Els will be trying to cling on to his crown but he has long considered Wentworth his home course so may not me the sure fire bet he has been in previous years. Other players likely to appear in the 2009 event include Vijay Singh, Michael Campbell and Phil Mickelson.

World Matchplay Golf Betting

In this guide you will find details of the past world match play winners as well as world match play betting tips, and a breakdown of this years players and a hole by hole guide to the course. The most popular type of bet on golf is match play outright betting which is when you back one player from all the tournament players before the event starts this will give you the best odds as you can still bet during the event but the odds will change drastically once play commences. There are also lots of World Match Play online free golf bets to take advantage of.

The 2009 Volvo Match Play Championship will be shown live on the BBC and odds will be available along with live scores and individual match odds right from the first swing of a club and will be updated throughout the Match.