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Dell Match Play
Taylor Moore earned his first PGA Tour victory, following his former University of Arkansas teammate Nicolás Echavarría at the Puerto Rico Open two weeks ago, last weekend at the Valspar Championship. Moore, priced at 60-1, carded a closing 67 on Sunday to finish 10 under. That score held up as Adam Schenk needed to par the 18th to force a playoff but pulled his drive left of the fairway and saw his ball come to rest just inches from the base of a tree. From there, he made brilliant contact on a left-handed shot that bounded through the fairway and, after hitting his approach to 41 feet, saw his long par attempt carry too much speed, catch the edge of the hole and run five feet past. Schenk settled for second as he still seeks his first tour win. Jordan Spieth and Tommy Fleetwood contended all weekend but shared third. Wyndham Clark finished fifth and Sam Burns, in his bid for a three-peat and the Valspar, finished sixth.
Moore did not qualify for this week's WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play in Austin due to the field being set the previous week based on the OWGR. However, he earned an invitation into next month's Masters.
The PGA Tour heads to the “Lone Star State” for the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play event as the best golfers in the world take a week off from stroke play and battle it out in head-to-head competition. For the seventh and final year since 2016, the tournament will be held at Austin Country Club on the outskirts of the Texas capital.
It was announced last week that the tournament will not be continuing next year. “We’re formally announcing today that the 2023 World Golf Championship Dell Technologies Match Play will be the final playing of the event here at Austin Country Club, and not be included on the 2024 calendar or moving forward,” executive director Jordan Uppleger confirmed. “The event has had an incredible run here at Austin Country Club.” The tournament’s slot on the calendar is expected to be filled by the Cadence Bank Houston Open as it moves from the fall portion of the schedule.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (8-1) returns to the city of his college alma mater (University of Texas at Austin) to defend his 2022 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play title. Scheffler was also the runner-up here in 2021. Jon Rahm (11-1) was the runner-up in 2017. Rory McIlroy (12-1) won in 2015, but at Harding Park in San Francisco. In all, eight of the OWGR Top 10 are competing this week.
Other former event champions in this field include 2021 champion Billy Horschel (110-1), 2019 winner Kevin Kisner (130-1), 2016 and 2014 (held in Dove Mountain, Ariz.) winner Jason Day (33-1), plus 2013 winner (also held at Dove Mountain) and 2019 runner-up Matt Kuchar (80-1).
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msudogs
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The WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play began in 1999 and officially moved to Austin, Texas, in 2016 while picking up Austin-headquartered Dell Technologies as its title sponsor. As always, the OWGR Top 64 and alternates make up the field. Players are split into 16 groups, each featuring an A, B, C and D player based on world ranking: 1-16, 17-32, 33-48, 49-64. In 2015, the event went through a format change. Instead of having players seeded 1 through 64 in a one-match knockout, one-and-done format, the event features a round-robin format with matches on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. As typical for any Match Play competition, a player earns one point for a win, a half-point for a tie, and the group winner moves on to the next round. If there is a tie in the group after three matches, players will play sudden death until a player advances. Once pool play is completed, the Round of 16 begins and becomes a knockout, one-and-done format. The round of 16 and quarterfinals will be played on Saturday. With the semifinals, third-place match and final contested on Sunday.
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