WGC Dell Match Play Friday leaderboard http://www.worldgolfchampionships.com/dell-match-play/livescoring.html
Saturday match previews from pgatour.com http://www.worldgolfchampionships.com/dell-match-play/news/2016/03/25/round-of-16-previews.html
Dell are the new sponsors of the WGC Match Play and Austin GC is the new venue and they and all concerned are delighted that the Big 3 have survived an exciting elimination Friday to advance to the sweet 16 who will meet in the 8 matches in store for Saturday morning.
Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Jason Day are the so called Big 3 of this new golf era, and no matter how they are playing they garner the lions share of media attention.
Rory, the defending champion hasn't hit full stride yet and needed sudden death and a mistake by Kevin Na to advance to meet the demolition man of the tournament so far, Zach Johnson whose precision game is perfectly suited for this Austin GC.
Jordan grew up playing this course and hasn't lost a match yet, and he faces Louis Ooshuizen.
Jason has survived his sore back, is pounding the ball off the tee prodigious distances, and of course won last week at Arnie's Invitational. He plays Brandt Snedeker who started the year on fire in Hawaii with his new Bridgestone driver and ball, and lessons from Butch Harmon, but has cooled since.
Here are the results of the groups http://www.worldgolfchampionships.com/dell-match-play/group-stage.html
Group 1
Jordan Spieth birdied four of the first five holes against Justin Thomas and won 3 and 2. He is undefeated thus far.
Group 2
Jason Day remained undefeated, as Paul Casey had to concede his match after six holes due to illness.
Group 3
Rory and Kevin Na both played brilliantly at times and after 18 holes they were even. At the 2nd hole of sudden death Na had to take a penalty stroke after a bad tee shot and Rory made a 6 foot par putt for the win
Group 4
Patton Kizzire (65th) became the lowest seed in the field to advance to the sweet 16 with a 2 up victory over Emiliano Grillo after JB Holmes beat Bubba Watson.
Group 5
Byeong-Hun An’s halve with Rickie Fowler was enough for An to advance to a sudden death playoff with Scott Piercy who he beat on the first hole. An finished 1-0-2, halving matches with Fowler and Piercy and beating Jason Dufner.
Group 6
Bill Haas won the last 2 holes to beat Adam Scott 1 up to advance to the Sweet16. He hasn't lost yet.
Group 7
Matt Kuchar never trailed in his match with Justin Rose winning 3 and 2 to advance.
Group 8
Dustin Johnson beat Jimmy Walker 2 and 1 in his regular match,then made a birdie on the first playoff hole to beat Kiradech Aphibarnrat.
Group 9
Patrick Reed raced out to a 6 up lead over Mickelson, and never looked back winning 5 and 4. He had 2 eagles and two birdies.
Group 10
Brooks Koepka lost 4 and 3 to Danny Willett...but is moving on, thanks to Jaco Van Zyl, who defeated Billy Horschel. Had Horschel won, he would've forced a playoff with Koepka, who won his first two matches.
Group 11
After beating David Lingmirth 3 and 2, Chris Kirk won the sudden-death playoff over Branden Grace by making par to advance.
Group 12
Spaniard, Cabrera Bello earned a half-point against Soren Kjeldsen, which was good enough to advance and avoid a playoff against Hideki Matsuyama.
Group 13
Ryan Moore had a strong back nine holes to catch and overtake Lee Westwood. winning 3 and 1 to move on.
Group 14
Never mind the Big 3, Zach Johnson has emerged as one of the favourites to win this event after he completed his impressive run with another big win, 4 and 3 over Shane In all, Johnson has played 42 holes and has led after 39 of them. He's only trailed after one hole this week.
Group 15
Charl Schwartzel and Brandt Snedeker were all square on the 11th tee but Snedeker won the next five holes to advance with a 5 and 3 win.
Group 16
Louis Oosthuizen beat Andy Sullivan 4 and 2 in their winner-take-all match.
Bryan Angus
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