The 2016 WGC-HSBC Champions was a golf tournament played from 27–30 October 2016 at the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai, China. It was the eighth WGC-HSBC Champions tournament, and the fourth of four World Golf Championships events held in the 2016 calendar year.

Hideki Matsuyama won by 7 strokes from Daniel Berger and Henrik Stenson. Matsuyama became the first Japanese golfer to win an individual World Golf Championship.

The following is a list of players who qualified for the 2016 WGC-HSBC Champions. The criteria are towards the leaders in points lists rather than tournament winners. Players who qualify from multiple categories will be listed in the first category in which they are eligible with the other qualifying categories in parentheses next to the player's name.

1. Winners of the four major championships and The Players Championship

Dustin Johnson (2,3,4), Henrik Stenson (3,5), Jimmy Walker (3,4), Danny Willett (3,5)

• Jason Day (2,3,4) did not play

2. Winners of the previous four World Golf Championships

Russell Knox (3,4), Adam Scott (3,4)

3. Top 50 from the OWGR on 10 October

An Byeong-hun, Daniel Berger (4), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (5), Paul Casey (4), Kevin Chappell (4), Matt Fitzpatrick (5), Rickie Fowler, Sergio García (5), Branden Grace (5), Emiliano Grillo (4), Bill Haas, Tyrrell Hatton (5), J. B. Holmes (4), Thongchai Jaidee (5), Martin Kaymer (5), Kevin Kisner (4), Søren Kjeldsen (5), Brooks Koepka, Matt Kuchar (4), Shane Lowry (5), Hideki Matsuyama (4), Rory McIlroy (4,5), Francesco Molinari (5), Ryan Moore (4), Kevin Na (4), Alex Norén (5), Louis Oosthuizen (5), Scott Piercy, Thomas Pieters (5), Patrick Reed (4), Charl Schwartzel (4,5,9), Justin Thomas (4), Bubba Watson (4), Lee Westwood (5), Chris Wood (5), Gary Woodland (4)

• Jim Furyk, Zach Johnson, William McGirt (4), Phil Mickelson (4), Justin Rose, Brandt Snedeker (4), and Jordan Spieth (4) did not play

4. Top 30 from the final 2016 FedEx Cup points list (if there are less than five available players, players beyond 30th will be selected to increase the number to five)

Roberto Castro, Kim Si-woo, Jason Kokrak, Sean O'Hair, Jhonattan Vegas

• Jason Dufner did not play

5. Top 30 from the Race to Dubai as of 17 October

Richard Bland, Grégory Bourdy, Bradley Dredge, Ross Fisher, Scott Hend (6), Andrew Johnston, Rikard Karlberg, Alexander Lévy, Joost Luiten, Bernd Wiesberger

• Andy Sullivan did not play

6. The leading four available players from the Asian Tour Order of Merit as of 17 October

Chan Shih-chang, Marcus Fraser, Miguel Tabuena, Wang Jeung-hun

7. The leading two available players from the Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit as of 17 October

Kim Kyung-tae, Hideto Tanihara

• Yuta Ikeda did not play.

8. The leading two available players from the final 2015 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit

Nathan Holman, Jordan Zunic

9. The leading two available players from the final 2015 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit

Jacques Blaauw, George Coetzee

10. Six players from China

Dou Zecheng, Li Haotong, Liang Wenchong, Wu Ashun, Zhang Huilin, Zhang Xinjun

11. Alternates, if needed to fill the field of 78 players

• The next available player on the Orders of Merit of the Asian Tour, Japan Golf Tour, Sunshine Tour, and PGA Tour of Australasia, ranked in order of their position in the OWGR as of 10 October
• Next available player, not otherwise exempt, from Race to Dubai as of 17 October, OWGR as of 10 October, FedEx Cup list:

1. Song Young-han (Japan)
2. Lee Soo-min (Asia)
3. Dean Burmester (Sunshine)
4. Matthew Millar (Australasia)
5. Richard Sterne (Race to Dubai)

Thursday, 27 October 2016

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Rikard Karlberg	64	−8
2	Rickie Fowler	65	−7
T3	Daniel Berger	66	−6
	Russell Knox
	Hideki Matsuyama
T6	Paul Casey	67	−5
	Bill Haas
	Francesco Molinari
T9	Richard Bland	68	−4
	Dean Burmester
	Sergio García
	Alex Norén
	Zhang Xinjun

Friday, 28 October 2016

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Hideki Matsuyama	66-65=131	−13
T2	Bill Haas	67-67=134	−10
	Russell Knox	66-68=134
T4	Daniel Berger	66-70=136	−8
	Richard Bland	68-68=136
	Francesco Molinari	67-69=136
T7	Paul Casey	67-70=137	−7
	Ross Fisher	69-68=137
	Rory McIlroy	71-66=137
	Zhang Xinjun	68-69=137

Saturday, 29 October 2016

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Hideki Matsuyama	66-65-68=199	−17
2	Russell Knox	66-68-68=202	−14
3	Daniel Berger	66-70-67=203	−13
T4	Bill Haas	67-67-70=204	−12
	Francesco Molinari	67-69-68=204
T6	Ross Fisher	69-68-69=206	−10
	Rickie Fowler	65-73-68=206
T8	Matt Kuchar	73-66-68=207	−9
	Shane Lowry	74-68-65=207
	Rory McIlroy	71-66-70=207
	Thomas Pieters	71-70-66=207
	Henrik Stenson	69-71-67=207
	Zhang Xinjun	68-69-70=207

Sunday, 30 October 2016

Place	Player	Score	To par	Prize money (US$)
1	Hideki Matsuyama	66-65-68-66=265	−23	1,620,000
T2	Daniel Berger	66-70-67-69=272	−16	787,000
	Henrik Stenson	69-71-67-65=272
T4	Bill Haas	67-67-70-69=273	−15	372,000
	Rory McIlroy	71-66-70-66=273
T6	Ross Fisher	69-68-69-68=274	−14	235,333
	Rickie Fowler	65-73-68-68=274
	Francesco Molinari	67-69-68-70=274
T9	Sergio García	68-72-69-67=276	−12	170,000
	Russell Knox	66-68-68-74=276

Birdie

Bogey

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	4	3	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	4	5	4	4	3	5
Matsuyama	−18	−18	−18	−18	−19	−19	−20	−20	−20	−20	−20	−20	−21	−22	−23	−23	−23	−23
Berger	−13	−13	−14	−15	−15	−15	−16	−16	−16	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−16	−16	−16
Stenson	−9	−10	−11	−11	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14	−15	−15	−15	−15	−16
Haas	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−15	−14	−14	−14	−15
McIlroy	−9	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−12	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−13	−14	−14	−15	−15	−15
Fisher	−11	−12	−12	−12	−11	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14	−15	−14
Fowler	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−14
Molinari	−12	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14	−14	−13	−13	−13	−12	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−14
García	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−10	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−11	−12	−12	−12	−13	−12
Knox	−14	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−14	−13	−12	−11	−12	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
Source:

• Official website
• Coverage on Asian Tour's official site
• Coverage on European Tour's official site
• Coverage on PGA Tour's official site Archived 28 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine

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