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Austin, TX … Masters Champion Danny Willett ended his run of WGC  Match-Play Championship of outs in defeating Russell Knox and reminding the Scot – “Every blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while”. Knox was never ahead in the match after losing the first hole to a birdie before being handed a convincing 4 & 2 defeat in the final of the three round robin matches. The lone Scot in the field needed to defeat Willett, who had been winless in his opening two matches, to ...

Austin, TX … After handing good friend Chris Wood defeat Matthew Fitzpatrick now needs Wood to do him a huge favour if Fitzpatrick is to advance to the final 16 in the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin. Fitzpatrick was never behind in the match against Wood and last year’s Ryder Cup colleague by sealing an emphatic 4 & 2 victory in bright but extremely windy conditions on the Austin Country Club course in Texas capital. “It’s always difficult playing a friend,” said ...

Austin, TX … Russell Knox must now defeat Masters Champion Danny Willett to have any chance of making his way to the final 16 in the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin, Texas. Knox, who comfortably won his opening match on Wednesday, struggled and was never in front before losing 3 & 1 to South Korean opponent K T Kim. The 30-year old Kim, who had played alongside the Scot for the opening two rounds of Knox’s 2015 WGC triumph in Shanghai, hardly gave Knox a chance racing to ...

Austin, TX … Rory McIlroy will be playing for pride knowing he cannot advance to the last 16 in the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin, Texas. McIlroy is set to tackle Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo in Friday’s final of three round robin matches, and after Grillo lost his second-round match to Dane Soren Kjeldsen in bright but very windy conditions on the Austin Country Club course. However, neither McIlroy or Grillo can advance to Saturday’s quarter-finals given the pint-sized ...

Austin, TX ,,, Rory McIlroy won his second round match without playing a shot  but could still find himself bundled out of the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin, Texas. McIlroy’s second round opponent, Gary Woodland was forced out due to a ‘personal family matter’ and the American has returned to his Orlando residence. But while McIlroy received his first point in the $US 9.75m event he will have to wait the outcome of the second round match between Dane Soren Kjeldsen and Argentinean ...

Austin, TX … A smile returned to Russell Knox’s face in not only seeing the Scottish Saltire beside his name but more importantly singing the praise of a new driver after defeating American Bill Haas 3 & 2 his opening round robin match of the WGC – Dell Match-Play. The No. 17 seed Scot was never behind against his 42nd seed opponent going 2up with winning pars the first and third holes. Knox then went 3up with a six-foot birdie at the 1oth and despite losing the 12th hole with a ...

Austin, TX … In one of the more emotional off-course scenes in many a decade Jason Day had tears streaming down his face in revealing he has withdrawn from the defence of his WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship after revealing his mother is to undergo life-saving lung cancer surgery on Friday. Day’s father, Alvin, was Australian, and Dening was born in the Philippines before they moved to Australia in the early 1980s. At first it was thought Day had withdrawn after six holes in ...