The HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship was an
LPGA Tour
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golf
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tournament that was played from 2005 through 2007. It was first played from June 30 to July 3, 2005 at Hamilton Farm Golf Club in
Gladstone, New Jersey
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In 2008, HSBC discontinued the event and began sponsoring a new event in Singapore: the
HSBC Women's Champions
The HSBC Women's World Championship is a women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour first held in 2008. It was played on the Garden Course of the Tanah Merah Country Club in eastern Singapore, adjacent to Singapore Changi Airport f ...
, a stroke play event.
The title sponsor, HSBC, is a large banking group based in
London, England
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.
Selection process
In 2007 the 64-woman field was selected as follows:
# The top-30 players on Rolex Rankings List through the U.S. Women's Open (July 2, 2007) who commit to play in the event. (Numbers 31 and higher on the Rolex Ranking List were not eligible even if one of the top 30 did not commit.)
# The top-30 players on the Official Money List through the U.S. Women's Open (July 2, 2007), who commit to play in the event.
# Two sponsor exemptions.
# Only the number-one ranked player on the Ladies European Tour Order of Merit through the U.S. Women's Open (July 2, 2007), who commits to play in the event.
# The defending champion, if not otherwise qualified.
# Any spots remaining after the above criteria have been applied will be taken from the Official Money List through U.S. Women's Open (July 2, 2007), who commit to play in the event, to complete the field.
The closest equivalent event in men's professional golf is the
WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
The WGC Match Play, currently titled as the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play for sponsorship reasons, is a professional men's golf tournament that has been held since 1999. It is the only one of the World Golf Championships to have been contested ...
, which is also a 64-player 18-hole match play event. HSBC also sponsors the HSBC World Match Play Championship on the PGA Tour, a longer established sixteen-player thirty-six-hole event tournament played in the
United Kingdom
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.
The tournament was last played from July 19 through July 22, 2007.