The WGC Dell Match Play 2017

omfg a 10&8 would be insane

Tony Romo could give Kis a run for his money right now.

I suppose the punters can go and follow Noren match instead

wow some real hacking from Kisner

5d lol

6down coming in

Cmon Kev, Got him matched at 140 before bubba missed putt

well, he won't be winning the 7th either lol

Ah well lol

amazing the difference a few hours can make

This year there are 16 seeded players; each will be grouped with one player seeded 17-32, one 33-48, and one 49-64.
No HeinzGuidance in 2019 thank fcuk

The 2019 seeded players are.....
D. Johnson, Rose, Koepka, Rory,
Thomas, DeChambeau, F. Molinari, Rahm,
Schauffele, Casey, Fleetwood, Day,
Tiger, Finau, Bubba, Reed.

So the bet is

how many of these will be gone after 2 days???

Group 1,
Dustin Johnson vs B is Matsuyama; C Is Brendan Grace; D is Chez Reavie.

Group 2,
Justin ROSE vs Woodland, Pepperell, and Grillo.

G3,
Koepka vs Alex Noren, Haotong Li, and Tom Lewis.

G4,
RORY vs Matt Fitzpatrick, Justin Harding, and Luke List.

Group 5,
JT vs Keegan Bradley, Wild Willie Wallace, and Lucas Bjerregaard.

Group 6 is
DeChambeau’s group with Leishman, Aphibarnrat, and Russell Knox.

MOLI vs Webb Simpson, Olesen, Kodaira.

Group 8...
Rahmbo vs: Kuchar, JB Holmes, and Si Woo Kim will take all fcukin day....yawn

Group 9 is...
Schauffele vs Rafa, Ricky Hatchet Hatton, and Sir Lee John Westwood

Next is Crusher Casey be Cameron Smith, Who’s CHUCKY 3sticks, and Abraham Ancer.

Then Fleetwood woulda coulda shoulda
vs Oosthuizen, Kyle Stanley, and Benny hANnnas

Jason DAY is up against Mickelson, Stenson, and Furry Jim Fury.
Gonna be lots of fury and OPENness in this group of sudden death

Ok ok ok it’s TIGER and yankies Cantlay, Sneds & some WISEman

TONY Finau has POULTER, Kisner, Keith Mitchell in the mix.

BUBBA will defend against Spieth, Horschel, NAna

So last but not least, Paddy Reed gets taken down by SERGIO, with Lowry as back up, along with Andrew Putnam in Group 16.

THE 2019 WGC DELL TECH DRAW SHEET

Group 1, Dustin Johnson vs B is Matsuyama; C Is Brendan Grace; D is Chez Reavie.
G16 - Paddy REED gets taken down by SERGIO, with Lowry as back up, along with Andrew Putnam.

Group 9 is...Schauffele vs Rafa, Ricky Hatchet Hatton (Euro winner in waiting), and Sir Lee John Westwood.
Group 8...Rahmbo vs Kuchar, JB Holmes, and Si Woo Kim will take all fcukin day....yawn.

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Group 5, (2nd TOUGHEST) JT vs Keegan Bradley, Wild Willie Wallace, and Lucas Bjerregaard.
G.12 - (TOUGHEST) Jason DAY is up against Mickelson, Stenson, and Furry Jim Fury.

G.13 - Ok ok ok it’s TIGER and yankies Cantlay, Sneds & some WISEman.
G.4, RORY WINNER vs Matt Fitzpatrick, Justin Harding, and Luke List.

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Group 2, Justin ROSE vs Woodland, Pepperell, and Grillo.
G.15 - BUBBA will defend against Spieth, Horschel, NAna.

G.10 - Crusher Casey vs Cameron Smith, Who’s CHUCKY 3sticks, and Abraham Ancer.
G.7 - (EASIEST) MOLI vs Webb Simpson, Olesen, Kodaira.

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Group 6 is DeChambeau’s group with Leishman, Aphibarnrat, and Russell Knox.
G.11 - Then Fleetwood woulda coulda shoulda vs Oosthuizen, Kyle Stanley, and Benny AN.

G.14 - TONY Finau has POULTER, Kisner, Keith Mitchell in the mix.
G.3 - KOEPKA (finalist) vs Alex Noren, Haotong Li, and Tom Lewis.

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Wednesday Group Play.....

THE TOP SEEDS play player (D) first, then player C on Thurs then player B on Friday.
Also timing is in the following Group order - 11vs6, 14vs3, 10vs7, 15vs2 then 12vs5, 13vs4, 9vs8, Group 16 vs Group 1 (although Tiger is Prime Time TV - 6pm in the US).

6.20 Fleetwood vs Byeong-Hun An (Player A plays player D).
6.31 Oosthuizen vs Kyle Stanley (Player B plays player C).
6.42 DeChambeau Russell Knox
6.53 Leishman Kiradech Aphibarnrat

7.04 Finau Keith Mitchell
7.15 Poulter Kevin Kisner
7.26 Koepka Tom Lewis
7.37 Noren Haotong Li

7.48 Casey Abraham Ancer
7:59 Cameron Smith Charles Howell III
8.10 Molinari Satoshi Kodaira
8.21 Webb Simpson Thorbjorn Olesen

8.32 Bubba vs Kevin Na
8.43 Jordan Spieth Billy Horschel
8.54 Rose vs Emiliano Grillo
9.05 Gary Woodland Eddie Pepperell
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9.16 Day vs Jim Furyk
9.27 Phil Mickelson Henrik Stenson
9.38 Justin Thomas vs Lucas Bjerregaard
9.49 Keegan Bradley Matt Wallace

10.00 PM THURDAY nite Tiger Woods (D) vs Aaron Wise ((C) Sneds on Thursday and (B) Cantlay on Friday).
10.11 Patrick Cantlay Brandt Snedeker
10.22 Rory vs Luke List
10.33 Matthew Fitzpatrick Justin Harding

10.44 Xander Schauffele Lee Westwood
10.55 Rafael Cabrera Bello Tyrrell Hatton
11.06 Rahmbo vs Si Woo Kim
11.17 Matt Kuchar J.B. Holmes

11.28 Reed vs Andrew Putnam
11.39 Sergio vs Shane Lowry
11.50 Dustin Johnson vs Chez Reavie (then Grace, then Matsu Friday)
12.01 Hideki Matsuyama Branden Grace

THERE's extra motivation to move into the World TOP 50 Rankings for the MASTERS too

...NINE PLAYERS outside of TOP 50 in field not qualified for Augusta including Furyk and Westwood.

Rory McIlroy
Justin Thomas
Brooks Koepka
Sergio Garcia
Webb Simpson
Tyrrell Hatton

+ Woody

IN AUSTIN CC, TEXAS...

2018 Bubba b. Kevin Kisner 7 & 6
2017 Dustin b. Jon Rahm 1 up
2016 Jason Day (+2014) b. Louis Oosthuizen 5 & 4

2008 Tiger Woods (for the 3rd time) - it's been a while.

The Top 4 play 7 rounds in 5 days too

Perhaps KISNER will surprise again

Phil has never won the Match Play - he's in the 'MAJOR WINNERS' Group this week - also is one of only 4 players in the field that played in the first WGC in 1999, along with Furyk, Tiger and Westwood.

Players who've made the Sweet 16 twice (Saturday) at Austin Country Club: Dustin, Koepka, Bubba, Kuchar, Reed, Oosthuizen, Chucky III & Alex Noren.

THe 11 guys on the T50 OWGR cut-line with hopes of heading to Augusta in 13 days time.
48 Lowry
49 Harding
51 An
53 Putnam
54 Furyk
57 Reavie
61 Ancer
62 Knox
63 Lewis
65 Westwood
69 List

Catch Me ifyoucan • March 18, 2019 1:56 PM GMT
What a great time for EUROPEAN GOLF, albeit in the ‘wrong’ time zone.

This is the first time European players have won in 3 consecutive weeks on the PGA TOUR since 2012. That time, it also happened in Florida: Rory at the Honda, Rose at Doral and Donald at Innisbrook.

4 weeks in-a-row in AUSTIN TEXAS ??? GO THE HITMAN

TV COVERAGE.....
27th,28th,29th March 2019 18:00 - 00:00
30th Mar 2019 14:00 - 22:00
31st Mar 2019 15:00 - 00:00

...in the 'wrong' time-zone

PRIZE MONEY breakdown this week...

WGC winner: $1.745M.....Everything’s bigger in Texas honey!
WGC 2nd: $1.095M
WGC 3rd: $712K
WGC 4th: $574K
Punta Cana winner: $540K
LPGA winner $270K
Champs winner $240K
WGC 22nd: $100K
Web Savannah winner: $99K
WGC last place: $50K
PGA Tour Latinoamérica winner $31.5K

FURYK too big at 130 - he's playing as good as ever

The BURLY THAI Aphibarnrat has a vg match-play record - 2-of-his-4 European Tour wins coming in some form of match-play event - went 2-1 in his first visit in the 2016 event and then won 4 matches in-a-row here last year, before losing out to Bubba, the eventual winner.

Since pool play began 4 years ago (2015), 76.6% of players to move on to the round of 16, won their opening match, while only 8 players in those 4 years (12.5%) have won their group after losing their opening match.

TOM LEWIS upset vs Koepka on the cards

Poulter crusing 2up thru14 vs Kisner.....NOW all square

BEST LEADERBOARD...

http://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard

Good golf by Haotong LI - could win the Group

Good halved match by TOM with bird on 18th

First 10 matches - the better seeded players are 7-2-1 (w.l.d.) so far, with Stanley and Li winners and a Koepka half.

SUPER PAR putt on 7 for Tiger

BUBBA cruising 2up thru12 then NA (57 seed) wins three holes to go 1up thru15 - par 5,3 & 4 to come.

BUBBA beaten by NA (na neh nah nah !)

JT in dormy 4 trouble

Good DAY for FURYK

JUSTIN 11/2 to win his Group 5

Timing is again in Group order for THURSDAY - 10vs7, 15vs2, 12vs5, 13vs4 then 9vs8, 16vs1, 11vs6 & 14vs3 starting at 2.20pm again.
THE TOP SEEDS play player C.

2.20 Casey vs Chucky (both Wed winners)
2.31 Cameron Smith vs Ancer
2.42 Molinari vs Olesen (both Wed winners)
2.53 Webb Simpson vs Kodaira

3.04 Bubba vs Horschel (half)
3.15 Jordan Spieth (half) vs NA (W)
3.26 Rose (W) vs Pepperell
3.37 Gary Woodland (W) vs Grillo

3.48 Day vs Henrik (W)
3.59 Phil Mickelson vs Furyk (W)
4.10 Justin Thomas vs Wallace (W)
4.21 Keegan Bradley vs Lucas (W)

4.32 Tiger Woods (W) vs Sneds (half)
4.43 Patrick Cantlay (half) vs Wise
4.54 Rory vs Harding (both Wed winners)
5.05 Matthew Fitzpatrick vs List
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5.16 Xander Schauffele vs Hatton (both Wed winners)
5.27 Rafa vs Westwood
5.38 Rahmbo (W) vs JB
5.49 Matt Kuchar (W) vs KIM

6.00 Reed vs Lowry
6.11 Sergio vs Putnam (both Wed winners)
6.22 Dustin Johnson vs Grace (both Wed winners)
6.33 Hideki Matsuyama vs Reavie

6.44 Fleetwood vs Stanley (both Wed winners)
6.55 Oosthuizen vs BH AN
7.06 DeChambeau (W) vs BarnRAT
7.17 Leishman (W) vs Knox

7.28 Finau (W) vs Kisner
7.39 Poulter (W) vs Mitchell (after they shared that plane ride (& Matchplay tips) from Augusta on Monday)
7.50 Koepka (half) vs LI (W)
8.01 Noren (L) vs Lewis (half)

...with Koepka 3, Moli 7, Casey 10 & Fleetwood 11 also to win their Groups

The Honda Classic winner Keith Mitchell, could not waste the chance to pick the brain of one of the best match players golf has seen, on a scouting mission to Augusta National last weekend when he ran into Ian Poulter and the pair got to talking about travel plans heading to Austin for this week’s WGC. Turned out both planned to fly over Monday morning so the two decided to come together – and it was in the air that Mitchell pounced. “He asked me a question… Why are you so good at match play?” Poulter said.
“So we kind of had a chat about it for a minute… I tried not to answer it, to be honest. And he sort of laughed. 'You don't have to be humble; you’re sitting in this little cabin with the three of us, you can tell me.'”
Poulter, who has long been a Ryder Cup hero for Europe and has been to the final four in the WGC – Dell Technologies Match Play three times with a win in 2010, gave up some basic advice. Ironically later that afternoon the pair would be drawn in the same group and now face off on Thursday at Austin Country Club.
“We had a laugh about it this morning. So hopefully I didn't give away too many secrets,” Poulter grinned. “He really hasn’t played match play a lot and he just said it's going to be new for him, and how does he play match play. And I basically said, you'll figure it out. “Glad I didn't give him too much info. He's a great player. He's coming off a bit of form obviously winning down at Honda.”
Mitchell lost his opening match Wednesday, going down 2 and 1 to Tony Finau. He will now get a lesson first hand from the victorious Poulter who avenged his quarter final loss to Kevin Kisner a year ago with a 2-up win.
The American has to win to have a realistic hope of advancing to the weekend and Poulter expects he’ll be hungry. As such he won’t take his travel mate lightly. “Match play is match play, right? You can make eight birdies and lose,” Poulter said. “It's about trying to get a hold of your match and obviously staying strong.” - PGA Tour.

Good info/write ups CMI
enjoyin the read.

What a great time for EUROPEAN GOLF, albeit in the ‘wrong’ time zone.

The European Ryder Cup team won 11 of 12 matches on Day 1

CASEY half with Chucky will have upset a few accums

FANCY any match bets ?

EDDIE has a 'PEP' in his step - 2up vs ROSE - another upset

BUBBA on his way home already

WOODLAND / ROSE decider tomorrow... sweet

COME ON FURYK - would be some display to beat all the three boy

Catch Me ifyoucan • March 27, 2019 10:57 PM GMT
JUSTIN 11/2 to win his Group 5

STILL THE BET OF THE CENTURY

The T16 group seeds went 11W-4L-1D Rd1.
The lowest loser Justin Thomas (No.5).
The highest winner Na (No. 57).

Catch Me ifyoucan • March 28, 2019 6:17 PM GMT
CASEY half with Chucky will have upset a few accums

...and I have the Crusher to win his Group in an Accum of the Century

'Beware the TIGER in the bushes' - OMG - a kneeling, back-handed 'SEVE SPECIAL'

NO BOOK BETTING on GROUP 5 Winner

I have SIMPSON to beat MOLI, with Olesen beating Kodaira to top the Group 7 and send Moli home - Olesen 8/1)

Koepka @ 11/10 Group 3 Winner
Olesen @ 15/2 Group 7 Winner
Howell @ 6/5 Group 10 Winner
PoorP Treble @ 38.27/1

By the numbers.....
29 Americans
35 International players
6 Continents and 17 Countries
61 of Top 64 in OWGR
22 youngest (Aaron Wise)
48 oldest (Furyk)
18 of 70 or 26% most wins: Tiger
1,472 total matches played in event
579 or 39.3% won by lower seed

The European Ryder Cup team won 11 of 12 matches on Day 1

...btw Noren lost to HAOTONG LI (and our favourite Chinaman also just took the scalp of Brooks Koepka ).

FRIDAY – Group order 12vs5, 13vs4 then 9vs8, 16vs1, 11vs6 & 14vs3 10vs7, 15vs2.

2.31 Day vs Phil (Going Home regardless).
2.42 Stenson vs FURYK - WINNER TAKE ALL MATCH - come on Jimbo.
Stenson asks Jim on the 1st tee - “Btw Jim, what club do you play to the 17th hole?” Furyk’s reply – “Ah, a six iron, but why do you ask?”. Henrik’s quick reply “Oh, I haven’t played that hole this week!” ….. Silence.
2.53 JUSTIN THOMAS vs Bradley (Go JT my man - for life-time accum).
3.04 WALLACE vs Lucas - a close call from Wild Willie Wallace would not be Welcome.

3.15 TIGER vs Cantlay (just give him the match Paddy ffs - he’s way older than you, and it still may not be enough to get him thru to Saturday)
3.26 SNEDS vs Wise (SNEDS should/must win to send Tiger packing - a draw means a Tiger playoff)
3.37 RORY vs Fitz (“THE MATCH” on Saturday morning is still a big “IF” Sneds loses)
3.48 Harding vs List (Going home regardless imvho)

3.59 Xander Schauffele vs Rafa – FORE !!! - bombs away !!!
4.10 HATTON vs Westwood - Europeans - 4 weeks in-a-row in AUSTIN TEXAS??? GO THE HITMAN.
4.21 Rahmbo vs KUCHAR maybe / maybe not, if JB hurries up it’s a three-way-tie-of-wins.
4.32 JB vs KIM

4.43 Reed vs SERGIO as predicted, he’s comfortable here - the Spaniard won his first PGA Tour event at Colonial with three victories in the Lone Star State - btw the wife’s a Texan babe and he's based out of here when playing in America.
4.54 Lowry vs Putnam (Going Home regardless imho).
5.05 Dustin Johnson vs Hideki (BIG Upset before The Masters).
5.16 GRACE vs Reavie (Group 1 winner - Top seed upset by the Grace of God).

5.27 FLEETWOOD vs Oosthuizen – Tommy wood do me a favour so he wood.
5.38 Stanley vs An – outside 2/1 chance for Kyle or Louis.
5.49 DeChambeau vs LEISHMAN Texas has been kind to Aussies
6.00 Barnrat vs Knox

6.11 Finau vs Poulter maybe but WIDE OPEN
6.22 Kisner vs Mitchell WIDE OPEN
6.33 Koepka vs Noren ANOTHER big UPSET
6.44 HAOTONG LI vs Lewis - who’s your favourite Chinaman?
6.55 CASEY vs Cameon Smith – Crusher Casey money on the line again this week. 
7.06 CHUCKY Three Sticks vs Ancer
7.17 MOLINARI vs Simpson maybe Moli, maybe not.
7.28 OLESEN vs Kodaira (or “IF” simple Sim-ps-on says ?)

7.39 Bubba vs Spieth (Bubba going Home regardless BUT a slim surprise and we’re Spiethless).
7.50 HORSCHEL vs Na - Horschel posted his maiden victory in Texas in 2017
8.01 Rose vs WOODLAND – will do, hope my money is right.
2.20 Pepperell vs Grillo (Going Home regardless) .....must have asked to get out first before those other losers

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48 players advanced out of the pool stages in last 3 years - 12 players (25%) that had lost a match advanced.

(Thomas or Wallace) - Tiger - Harding - Rafa - Rahmbo - JB - (one of Finau or Poulter or Kishner or Mitchell) - Olesen - all have lost a match.
If the stats stand up, maybe only 2 of these players are going thru to Sat morn.

A T50 OWGR place is on the line, and hopes of heading to Augusta in 10 days time.
48 Lowry
49 Harding
51 An
53 Putnam
54 Furyk
57 Reavie
Harding vs Lowry - safe/unsafe - even if they both lose today matches, Harding can still jump ahead of Lowry depending on how other results pan out.

Only 5 of the Top-seeded players in each Group advanced to the round-of-16 in each of the previous two years (31%), while 8 (50%) advanced in 2016.

Players with 100% records still...
Garcia - his ball-striking is the best in the field through 2 days (+3.42 strokes gained tee to green per round, 1st in the field).
Molinari
McIlroy
Stenson
Li
Kuchar
Grace
Leishman
Furyk
Woodland

GOING HOME REGARDLESS are Cam Smith, Simpson, Kodaira, Bubba, Grillo, Day, Phil, Aaron Wise, Matt Fitz, Si Woo Kim, Paddy Reed, Lowry, Reavie, Hideki, Ben An, Knox, Koepka & Tom Lewis.

+PEP

4.54 Shane playing for his ticket to Augusta vs Putnam

THIS Quarter Final European DRAW SHEET IS VERY POSSIBLE.....

ROSE vs CASEY
FLEETWOOD vs POULTER
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GARCIA vs HATTON
STENSON vs RORY

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Lets see how many make it thru

LUCAS the Blackguard could blow my JUSTIN THOMAS Group winner off course

Well, they got THE MATCH they wanted.

ELL Less than 6% of players trailing after the 13th hole have gone on to win their matches at Austin Country Club over the last 4 years.
Tiger 1-up on Rory in the 14th fairway.

Starting to look like...

NA vs MOLI
OOSTHUIZEN vs KISNER
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GRACE vs KUCHAR
BJERREGAARD vs TIGER/RORY

NA vs MOLI / OOSTHUIZEN vs KISNER

ONE of these is a finalist

Tiger takes down Rory at the 17th hole.

Less than 6% of players trailing after the 13th hole have gone on to win their matches at Austin Country Club over the last 4 years.

SERGIO back to all square thru15

Huge turn of events in Tiger vs Rory on the 16th hole...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1112040722188783621

Rory: 395-yard drive (longest drive of the day on 16)
Tiger: Finds the bunker
Tiger: Lays up
Tiger: Finds the green
Rory: Misses the green
Rory: Goes long
Rory: Takes unplayable
Rory: Finds the sand
Rory: Cards a 7

Kevin Na takes down the World Number Two Justin Rose, 2 up.
22's on here - nobody giving Na a chance against Molinari this afternoon.

GREEN with KISNER, GARCIA & TIGER

THE STARS needed to align perfectly on Friday for TIGER and they did - for the week’s most anticipated showdown between Woods and Rory McIlroy.
The game’s hottest player at the moment in McIlroy, who is fresh off his victory at The Players and hasn’t finished outside the top 10 this year, against the game’s hottest commodity.
Inexplicably, the duo has never played each other in a Ryder Cup but there will be plenty of familiarity. This was the 19th time they’ve been in the same group on the PGA Tour. “If it is Rory, we're looking forward to it,” Woods said. “We've played tournaments together, battled each other down the stretch at events, but never in a match-play situation, so this will be fun.”
McIlroy’s reaction to the pairing was a tad more enthusiastic. “I just hope I put up a better fight than I did in Atlanta last year,” McIlroy said. “I'm sure it's going to be exciting for us. I feel good about my game. I played well all year. I've continued to do that this week.”
Of the duo’s previous 18 meetings on Tour it’s that duel last September at the Tour Championship that stands out. McIlroy began the day three shot behind Woods. Tiger shot 71 and won. McIlroy shot 74 and hasn’t forgotten.

SERGIOoooooooooooo 

KISNER vs. Louis Oosthuizen -- 6:30 p.m.
Francesco Molinari vs. Kevin Na -- 6:50 p.m.
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Lucas Bjerregaard vs. TIGER -- 7:10 p.m.
Matt Kuchar vs. SERGIO -- 7:30 p.m.

Will it be another WELCOME TO "MOLIWOOD" tomoro