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Texas-based PC maker Dell, which has major sports sponsorship
experience with Formula 1 and America's Cup, will take over as
the event's title sponsor next year when the event will be
renamed the WGC-Dell Match Play.
"We're confident that Dell will find the World Golf
Championships to be an extremely effective and valuable global
marketing and business-to-business platform," PGA Tour
commissioner Tim Finchem said in a statement.
An announcement on the host course for 2016 in the Greater
Austin Area will be made "in the near future," the International
Federation of PGA Tours and Dell said in a joint statement.
Austin, the 11th-most populous city in the United States, last
hosted a sanctioned PGA Tour event from 2003-2009 on the
over-50s Champions Tour.
The Match Play Championship, the first of the season's elite
four World Golf Championships (WGC) events, will this year be
held as the WGC-Cadillac Match Play at TPC Harding Park in San
Francisco from Apr. 29-May 3.
Australian Jason Day will defend the title he won in 2014 with a
one-up victory over Frenchman Victor Dubuisson after 23 holes in
the final.
Limited to the top 64 players in the world, the Match Play
Championship was previously played in Marana, Arizona from 2007
to 2014.
(Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by
Frank Pingue)
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