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Austin, TX .. Tyrrell Hatton found himself handed a two stroke penalty and bundled out of the event  in  breaching a ‘tournament rule’ on day three of the WGC – Dell Match-Play Championship in Austin, TX. The High Wycombe golfer was on the first green in a three-man sudden death play-off to decide who in their group goes through to Saturday’s quarter finals on the Austin Country Club course in the Texas capital. Hatton sent his birdie attempt to just two feet short from the ...

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 … It was clearly a case of memories of those long hot summer days spent sunning and surfing in Sydney in seeing a line of VWs, and some with surfboards, travelling in convoy in route to this week’s WGC  Dell Match-Play Championship here in Austin, Texas. VWs with surfboards strapped to the roof seemed to be a common sight up and down the sun-splashed beaches of Sydney. My brother, Steve has the great shot taken in his twenties with his long hair Proudly standing beside his ...