Survive and advance is the motto of this week’s WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play Championship. The winner at Austin Country Club, site of the event once again in 2019, will have to fight his way through three rounds of group play on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to become one of the 16 players to advance into
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Even by the vagaries of match play, this Matt Kuchar-Sergio Garcia story is as idiosyncratic as golf can get. For those that missed the Saturday fireworks at Austin C.C., Garcia and Kuchar were locked in a WGC-Match Play quarterfinal duel when things went awry at the par-3 seventh. Trailing Kuchar by one, Garcia missed a
2:33 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas – The match was equal parts glory and gory, stupendously long drives mixed with zaniness, the end coming on the 17th green where Tiger Woods narrowly cleared a hazard – and then holed the winning par putt. Rory McIlroy was left to sulk off in defeat Saturday at the WGC-Dell
Jordan Spieth hails from Dallas, but he’s made the Masters his abode. In five starts at Augusta National, the 25-year-old has a win, two runner-ups, a third-place finish and an appearance in the penultimate group, and has held the lead at day’s end in nine of 20 career rounds. For context, Tiger Woods, who’s had
6:56 PM ET Associated Press PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Likely needing to win to get a Masters spot through the world ranking, Sung-jae Im rebounded from an early double bogey to take the second-round lead Friday in the PGA Tour’s Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship. “After that bad start, my goal was to
Elimination day at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play was electric, much of that due to the play of Tiger Woods. But there were plenty of other impressive performances from the rest of the field, including a particularly impressive one from a well-known major champion. And playoffs? Playoffs? You kidding me? Oh, we had playoffs. If
The 13th hole at Austin C.C. tripped up Tiger Woods on Thursday, the 14-time major winner sailing an iron shot off the tee at the drivable par 4 in the water. Woods would double the hole, giving opponent Brandt Snedeker a 2 Up a lead, a lead Snedker would hold to defeat Woods on the
4:37 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas – For the better part of three days at Austin Country Club, Tiger Woods emitted a vibe of frustration. Quirky course. Indifferent putting. Questionable decisions. And a match play performance that suggested he’d be getting an earlier start on Masters preparation. Then Woods holed an 83-yard wedge shot Friday afternoon
It turns out Lucy Li won’t be playing in the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur after all. The 16-year-old California native and 2018 U.S. Curtis Cup team member, who retained her amateur status after the USGA investigated her appearance in an Apple advertisement earlier this year, was set to be among the 72 players to
10:03 PM ET ESPN News Services PUNTA CANA, Dominican Republic — Joel Dahmen birdied five of his last six holes Thursday for a 6-under 66 and a share of the first-round lead in the PGA Tour’s Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship. Dahmen rebounded from a bogey on the par-4 third with four straight birdies
Once again, pool play continued to provide golf fans with plenty of entertainment on Thursday at Austin Country Club. We had defending champion Bubba Watson calling out hecklers, Tiger Woods making what may be the par save of his life, a few marquee names get eliminated early and another sign of “progress” from Jordan Spieth.
Golf fans have been treated to countless displays of short game wizardry from Tiger Woods throughout his illustrious career. The slow-mo make at the 2005 Masters, the flop Jack Nicklaus called the best he’s ever seen at the 2012 Memorial, and the miraculous chip at the 2001 World Cup of Golf that Woods considers his
4:14 PM ET Associated Press For the third straight year in Match Play, the defending champion will not make it to the weekend. Bubba Watson was eliminated from group play Thursday when he lost in 17 holes to Billy Horschel. Watson lost in the opening round to Kevin Na. A year ago, defending champion Dustin
Greg Norman has taken his name off the Greg Norman Champions Golf Academy in Myrtle Beach, as the school is entangled in a misappropriation scheme. MyrtleBeachOnline.com reports that Jose Manuel Fernandez Del Puerto, the managing partner of the academy, was arrested on charges of embezzlement on March 13. Authorities have accused Fernandez of withdrawing $2
9:38 PM ET ESPN News Services AUSTIN, Texas — Jordan Spieth found some success with a tie on Thursday at the Dell Technologies Match Play. The most unpredictable tournament in golf began Wednesday with only a few surprises as only four of the top 16 seeds in group play failed to win their opening match
The PGA Tour heads to Texas this week for the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, the third of four World Golf Championships this season. This marks the fourth season the event will be held at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas. This also marks the fifth year of the event’s new, pool-play format, which doesn’t feel
The 18th hole of the Bubba Watson-Kevin Na match on Thursday at the WGC-Dell Match Play featured a bit of everything. Well, everything except putts. There were differing strategies off the tee, great shots, club twirls, poor shots, and finally, a pick up. And a premature pick up at that. RELATED: Where is Bubba Watson
9:14 AM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Gone is the one-and-done aspect of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play Championship, a situation that created great drama on the first day of the event but also meant the possibility of some big stars going home very early. Changed to a round-robin format in 2015, now everyone sticks around