03/27/2021 at 07:20 CET
. / Austin
The Spanish Jon Rahm and Sergio García they followed third round and playoff hits Dell Technologies Match Play, PGA Tour, group mode, winning his pass to the weekend knockout competition.
Mexican Abraham Ancer, who lost in the third round but qualified for the playoffs, could not beat them and was eliminated, as happened to young Chilean Joaquín Niemann.
Rahm was dominant again with his punches and after drawing the third round game with the American Ryan Palmer, who birdied the 18th hole to issue a 5-5 card, in the sudden death of the playoffs the two golfers met again in Group 3 and the victory went to the Spaniard, who became the only top 20 to continue in the tournament and will be in the weekend’s knockout phase at Austin Country Club.
Fellow Garcia defeated veteran England Lee Westwood in the longest of the eight playoffs with a 161-yard 9 iron to a forward pin on the fourth par 3 hole that landed just past the pin and returned to the hole. This gave him a victory over Westwood and sent him into the weekend’s knockout stage for the third time in a row.
Garcia was impressed with his winning shot, but was quick to point out that he needed to hit a three-yard par and a two-and-a-half par on the previous two holes just to stay in the game during the playoffs. . . “The two putts I made… huge to keep going,” Garcia said. “And then obviously the 4-shot is a good shot, but then you’re lucky he didn’t hit the flag in the first place, because he must have been very close to hitting the flag, then he comes back. in. Obviously very happy about it. Westwood was also impressed and wrote on his Twitter account, “Well, 28 years old on the road and thought I had seen it all. I did not see him! “
Equally impressive was the momentum of Robert MacIntyre, the 24-year-old Scotsman with a lot of courage and a lot of struggle. I was 1 against the American Adam Long, who was ready to advance with compatriot Dustin Johnson in the leading group on the verge of losing to Kevin Na. Johnson moved within six feet of his putt by (Na was only over three feet for birdie) and his younger brother, Austin, came a few feet from the cup to help read the putt. Out of nowhere a bullet shot to the left side of the rim around the green and rolled past the caddy’s feet. Johnson had to score MacIntyre’s ball to kick it. MacIntyre didn’t realize what had happened except that he knew he had struck the blow of his life. “Probably one of the luckiest and best golf shots I’ve ever made,” said MacIntyre. “You have to keep fighting until the end, and it shows that anything can happen in this game.”
Was what he did Ancer in his elimination duel with the American veteran Kevin Streelman, 42, who birdied on the par 4 of hole 1 to defeat and eliminate the Mexican golfer.
Neither could Niemann be in the weekend of the tournament that distributes $ 10.5 million, after losing to the American as well Bubba Watson, on the second hole of the playoffs, a par 4, in which the Chilean golfer made a bogey.
In the third round of the tournament, which was played in the morning, the Colombian Sebastian Munoz lost to the irish Shane Lowry 4-7 until hole 16 (3 above) so it was not necessary to play the last two of the round.
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