The semifinalists have been determined in the matchplay spectacle at the Austin Country Club in Texas.
The round of 16 and quarterfinals were contested on an exciting fourth day of the World Golf Championship – Dell Technologies Match Play. In the duel of the major winners, Dustin Johnson prevailed against his US compatriot Brooks Koepka, who had previously defeated world number one Jon Rahm.
Johnson – ranked number eight – meets Scottie Scheffler (5/picture) in the fight for the final, who threw defending champion Billy Horschel (USA/12) out of the tournament in the repeat of last year’s final. The 37-year-old son-in-law of ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky demands player of the season with Scheffler. The 25-year-old won the Phoenix Open in mid-February and triumphed at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in early March.
The second semi-final is contested by 38-year-old Kevin Kisner (USA/29) – Matchplay Champion 2019 – and 30-year-old Canadian Corey Conners, who started as number 29 of the 64 participants in the $12 million WGC event was.
On today’s final day, the semi-finals are on the program before the winners play the big final and the losers play the match for third place.
Johnson and Scheffler have won all five duels so far
Dustin Johnson, Matchplay-Champion 2017
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The duel between Scottie Scheffler and “DJ” Johnson is particularly exciting.
“I’ve been watching him play for years and he’s pretty good at golf,” Scheffler says of Johnson. “So it should be a fun fight with him. It’s nice to see he’s back on form and I’m looking forward to fighting with him.”
Both Americans have been playing strong matchplay golf since Wednesday and have won all five games. As a specialist of this format, Johnson won the 2017 Matchplay World Championship, Scheffler still has an unfinished business from last year and would like to succeed Kevin Kisner.
He lost the final to Bubba Watson in 2018 but won the final the following year. Now Kisner plays the second semifinal against Conners.
After the elimination of Sepp Straka (one win, two defeats), Austria will have to wait another year for their first promotion from the group stage at the Matchplay World Cup.
The next big highlight is already on the program for 28-year-old Straka in two weeks. At the US Masters, the Austrian-American, who was born in Vienna, will be working not far from his adopted home in Georgia and will be the only native representative in Augusta to hold up the red-white-red flag this year.
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