PGA Tour Dell Match Play Saturday Results, Sunday Tee Times http://www.worldgolfchampionships.com/dell-match-play/livescoring.html
For me the headlines from a very busy Saturday at the Dell Match Play were :
*Louis Oosthuizen plays giant killer beating Spieth and Dustin Johnson
*Rory McIlroy to play Jason Day in semi finals
*No Americans survive quarter-finals
Louis Oosthuizen is a tenacious match player and on Saturday he beat everyone's favourite Jordan Spieth 4 and 2, then Dustin Johnson 2 and 1 to reach the semifinals for the first time. Not a bad day's play to put on your resume !
On a big day for the European Tour, Rafa Cabrera Bello of Spain beat Ryan Moore, 2 and 1 after being awarded his match against Byeong-Hun (Ben) An who had to WD due to the flu in the morning, to meet Oosthuizen in the semi finals.
Cabrera is now assured of a spot in the Masters as he moves into the world's top 50.
However as you would imagine in the media tent afterwards all the attention was on Spieth, and the other semi final between undefeated defending champion Rory McIlroy and the new world #1 Jason Day.
First Spieth, who lost holes with three bogeys and a double bogey "I didn’t make it very hard on Louis today, which is unfortunate, I was off from when I hit my first 10 shots on the range. I’ve had incredible control of the ball this week and of my wedges. I’m not exactly sure what happened"
Whatever it was, it affected 11 other Americans as well, who are all elsewhere this morning after losing in the not so sweet 16 for them.
As for Rory, he managed to beat a very tough Zach Johnson who battled him right to the last putt1 up. Johnson had a great week and he holed a 25 footer for birdie on the 18th, making McIlroy sweat over his little 3 footer for the win.
McIlroy then beat Chris Kirk more handily, 4 and 3 in the afternoon to remain undefeated in defence of his title. If he wins again this year he will join Tiger Woods as the only back-to-back winners.
However he will have to beat the 2014 winner, and new world #1, Jason Day first and that is a tall task. Day won two of the first three holes to get ahead of Brooks Koepka and run out a 3 and 2 winner after beating Brandt Snedeker by the same score in the morning.
"It’s been a bit of an up and down week, especially emotionally,” said Day who remember had his back seize up on him earlier in the week. “It’s been quite amazing to be able to start the week, not really thinking I’m going to be able to play with what happened Wednesday, and then turn around and I’m No. 1 in the world. It’s a strange feeling. I’m glad I stuck it out"
The statisticians point out that this is only the second time the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds have met in the semifinals since the Match Play began in 1999.
The semi finals begin at 9am this morning with Rory against Jason, followed by Louis against Rafa, with the winners playing for the championship in the afternoon.
Try picking a winner out of this group !! My pick will surprise you...It's Louis Oosthuizen...
Bryan Angus
(notes from pgatour.com)
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