The 2025 T-Mobile Match Play format is unique in golf because it's not only the rare match-play event in professional golf, but it's an individual match-play event with a qualifying component designed to help preserve the best players in the tournament from being eliminated in a potential fluke loss in the first three days of the event.
T-Mobile Match Play format
The T-Mobile Match Play format is returning for 2025, and it's the only LPGA Tour match play tournament of the season. There is a starting field of 64 players, with the highest-ranked available players taking part in the field, as well as some sponsor exemptions who are added to complete the exact starting field.
For the first three days of the tournament, Wednesday through Friday, the T-Mobile Match Play is a group-based, round-robin event. There are 16 groups of four players, and each player competes in an 18-hole match each day to complete playing all three other players in their group. The player with the best record in each group, based on points awarded for wins (1 points) and ties (0.5 points), moves on to the Round of 16 on Saturday.
On Saturday, the group winners will compete in a single-elimination event, with those 8 winners competing in the quarterfinal round on Saturday afternoon.
On Sunday morning, the semifinalists will play, with the championship match unfolding on Sunday afternoon. There is no consolation match for third and fourth place.
The player who wins the final match is the winner and will earn the 2025 T-Mobile Match Play winner's share of the purse.
The winning player will get a two-season LPGA Tour exemption. The winner is exempt into other tournaments as well. The winner earns 500 Race to the CME Globe points.
T-Mobile Match Play playoff format
A playoff to settle any ties in a match after the round-robin round will be a sudden-death affair, with players returning to the 18th hole to compete in a hole-by-hole showdown until a player winners a hole and, therefore, the match.
