The Paul Lawrie Match Play was a

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tournament on the

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that was played from 2015 to 2017 in

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. The inaugural tournament was played from 30 July to 2 August 2015 at

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. The tournament's host was eight-time European Tour winner and

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Open Champion

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. The event was a 64-man

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tournament, with one round played on each of the first two days and two rounds on the last two. The European Tour's exemption categories were used to select most of the field, with four spots reserved for invitations and three for the leading three non-exempt players in the

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rankings. The thirty-two players in the field who were highest in the Race to Dubai were seeded one to thirty-two and prevented from facing each other in the first round; the remainder were randomly drawn into the bracket. After changing title sponsor every year and relocating from

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, the tournament was quietly dropped from

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calendar probably due to financial reasons.

Winners

References

External links

Coverage on the European Tour's official site
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