2012 WGC-Cadillac Championship

Tournament information
Dates	March 8–11, 2012
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	74 players
Cut	None
Prize fund	$8,500,000 €6,308,116
Winner's share	$1,400,000 €1,048,140
Champion
Justin Rose
272 (−16)

The 2012 WGC-Cadillac Championship was a golf tournament played from March 8–11 on the TPC Blue Monster course at Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Doral, Florida, a suburb west of Miami. It was the 13th WGC-Cadillac Championship tournament, and the second of the World Golf Championships events to be staged in 2012.

Justin Rose won his first WGC event, one stroke ahead of runner-up Bubba Watson, the 54-hole leader.^[1] Watson rebounded and won his first Masters the following month.

Course layout

The tournament was played on the TPC Blue Monster course.

Field

Doral

Location in the United States

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. All 74 players that qualified for the tournament played in it. Branden Grace was the only player in the field who was appearing in his first WGC event. Players qualified based on the following qualification rules:^[3][4] 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 February 27, 2012^[5]
Aaron Baddeley (2,3), Bae Sang-moon (2,7), Thomas Bjørn (2,5), Keegan Bradley (2,3,4), Paul Casey (2), K. J. Choi (2,3), Ben Crane (2), Jason Day (2,3), Luke Donald (2,3,5), Jason Dufner (2,3), Simon Dyson (2,5), Rickie Fowler (2), Sergio García (2,5), Bill Haas (2,3,4), Anders Hansen (2,5), Peter Hanson (2,5,6), Freddie Jacobson (2,3), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (5), Dustin Johnson (2,3), Zach Johnson (2), Robert Karlsson (2), Martin Kaymer (2,5), Kim Kyung-tae (2), Matt Kuchar (2,3), Martin Laird (2), Paul Lawrie (2,5,6), Hunter Mahan (2,3,4), Graeme McDowell (2,5), Rory McIlroy (2,4,5,6), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4), Francesco Molinari (2), Geoff Ogilvy (2,3), Louis Oosthuizen (2,5,6), Ian Poulter (2), Álvaro Quirós (2,5), Justin Rose (2,3), Charl Schwartzel (2,5), Adam Scott (2,3), John Senden (2,3), Webb Simpson (2,3), Brandt Snedeker (2,3,4), Kyle Stanley (2,4), Steve Stricker (2,3,4), David Toms (2,3), Bo Van Pelt (2,3), Nick Watney (2,3), Bubba Watson (2,3), Lee Westwood (2,5,6), Mark Wilson (2,3,4), Tiger Woods (2)

2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking, as of March 5, 2012^[6]
Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño (5)

3. The top 30 players from the final 2011 FedExCup Points List
Jonathan Byrd, Charles Howell III, Chez Reavie, Vijay Singh, Gary Woodland, Yang Yong-eun

4. The top 10 players from the 2012 FedExCup Points List, as of March 5, 2012
Johnson Wagner

5. The top 20 players from the final 2011 European Tour Order of Merit
Darren Clarke, Nicolas Colsaerts, Pablo Larrazábal, Alex Norén

6. The top 10 players from the European Tour Race to Dubai Standings, as of February 27, 2012^[7]
Rafa Cabrera-Bello, Retief Goosen, Branden Grace, Jbe' Kruger, Robert Rock

7. The top 2 players from the final 2011 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit
Tadahiro Takayama

8. The top 2 players from the final 2011 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit
Greg Chalmers, Marcus Fraser

9. The top 2 players from the final 2011 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit
Garth Mulroy, Hennie Otto

10. The top 2 players from the final 2011 Asian Tour Order of Merit
Tetsuji Hiratsuka, Juvic Pagunsan

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Jason Dufner	66	−6
	Adam Scott
T3	Thomas Bjørn	68	−4
	Charl Schwartzel
T5	Aaron Baddeley	69	−3
	Keegan Bradley
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez
	Juvic Pagunsan
	Álvaro Quirós
	Justin Rose
	Kyle Stanley
	Steve Stricker

Second round

Friday, March 9, 2012

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Bubba Watson	70-62=132	−12
2	Justin Rose	69-64=133	−11
3	Adam Scott	66-68=134	−10
4	Peter Hanson	70-65=135	−9
T5	Thomas Bjørn	68-68=136	−8
	Keegan Bradley	69-67=136
T7	Charles Howell III	70-67=137	−7
	Martin Kaymer	73-64=137
	Charl Schwartzel	68-69=137
T10	Luke Donald	70-68=138	−6
	Jason Dufner	66-72=138
	Zach Johnson	70-68=138
	Kyle Stanley	69-69=138
	Bo Van Pelt	73-65=138

Third round

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Bubba Watson	70-62-67=199	−17
T2	Keegan Bradley	69-67-66=202	−14
	Justin Rose	69-64-69=202
4	Peter Hanson	70-65-69=204	−12
T5	Zach Johnson	70-68-67=205	−11
	Matt Kuchar	72-67-66=205
7	Johnson Wagner	70-69-67=206	−10
T8	Luke Donald	70-68-69=207	−9
	Martin Kaymer	73-64-70=207
	Rory McIlroy	73-69-65=207
	Charl Schwartzel	68-69-70=207
	Webb Simpson	75-66-66=207
	Tiger Woods	72-67-68=207

Final round

Sunday, March 11, 2012

The 54-hole leader Bubba Watson stumbled early in the round and was 3 over par for the front nine, surrendering the lead to Keegan Bradley who was −3 after 7 holes. At one point Bradley led by 2 strokes but he stumbled on the back nine which included a three-putt from 4 feet and a 4 over par finish in the last 4 holes. Rory McIlroy also got into contention with an eagle on the 12th hole and was 1 back of the lead but a bogey on the 14th stopped his momentum. Justin Rose grabbed the lead on the back nine and never relinquished it, though on the final hole, Watson hit a brilliant shot from the rough and around the trees to 8 feet, but missed the ensuing putt which would have resulted in him getting into a playoff with Rose. Tiger Woods withdrew from the tournament after the third round because of an Achilles injury.

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Justin Rose	69-64-69-70=272	−16	1,400,000
2	Bubba Watson	70-62-67-74=273	−15	845,000
3	Rory McIlroy	73-69-65-67=274	−14	516,000
T4	Peter Hanson	70-65-69-71=275	−13	362,500
	Charl Schwartzel	68-69-70-68=275
T6	Luke Donald	70-68-69-69=276	−12	260,000
	John Senden	76-67-68-65=276
T8	Keegan Bradley	69-67-66-75=277	−11	165,000
	Matt Kuchar	72-67-66-72=277
	Steve Stricker	69-70-69-69=277
	Bo Van Pelt	73-65-70-69=277

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
Rose	−15	−15	−15	−16	−16	−15	−15	−15	−15	−16	−16	−16	−16	−17	−17	−17	−17	−16
Watson	−18	−18	−17	−16	−15	−15	−15	−15	−14	−14	−15	−16	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15
McIlroy	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−12	−12	−13	−13	−15	−15	−14	−14	−15	−15	−14
Hanson	−12	−12	−12	−12	−13	−12	−12	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14	−13	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13
Schwartzel	−11	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−13	−14	−14	−14	−13
Bradley	−16	−16	−15	−15	−16	−16	−17	−16	−16	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−14	−14	−13	−11

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Source:^[8]

References

External links

• Official website
• Coverage on the European Tour's official site

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