World Match Play format

Here is a rundown of the format for the 2011 Volvo World Match Play Championship.

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Field: 24 players are divided into eight groups of three based on world rankings, with two points for a win and one for a halved match Groups (seeded positions in brackets): Group A - (1) Lee Westwood, (16) Anders Hansen, (17) Aaron Baddeley
Group B - (2) Luke Donald, (15) Ryan Moore, (18) Ross Fisher
Group C - (3) Martin Kaymer, (14) YE Yang, (19) Noh Seung-yul
Group D - (4) Graeme McDowell, (13) Louis Oosthuizen, (20) Jhonattan Vegas
Group E - (5) Rory McIlroy, (12) Retief Goosen, (21) Nicolas Colsaerts
Group F - (6) Paul Casey, (11) Alvaro Quiros, (22) Soren Kjeldsen
Group G - (7) Charl Schwartzel, (10) Miguel Angel Jimenez, (23) Johan Edfors
Group H - (8) Francesco Molinari, (9) Ian Poulter, (24) Paul Lawrie Thursday: top two seeds in each group play each other, matches starting 1105BST. Friday: bottom seed in each group plays the second seed, then the top seed, matches starting 0645BST. Top two in each group progress to last 16, with ties on points settled either by their head-to-head result or by sudden-death play-off. Saturday morning: 0645 Runner-up C v Winner F (match 1); 0655 Winner C v Runner-up F (match 2); 0705 Runner-up B v Winner G (match 3); 0715 Winner B v Runner-up G (match 4); 0725 Winner D v Runner-up E (match 5); 0735 Winner D v Runner-up E (match 6); 0745 Winner Group A v Runner-up H (match 7); 0755 Winner Group H v Runner-up Group H (match 8) Saturday afternoon: 1220 Winner Match 1 v Winner Match 2; 1230 Winner Match 3 v Winner Match 4; 1240 Winner Match 5 v Winner Match 6; 1250 Winner Match 7 v Winner Match 8 Sunday: semi-finals start 0745, final 1250. Prize money: winner £703,977, runner-up £369,588, losing semi-finalists £193,593, losing quarter-finalists £101,196, last 16 losers £79,197, last in group £61,598.