Epic Final of WGC-Accenture Match Play Highlights Golf Stars of Tomorrow

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Published: February 24, 2014

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These guys really are young. Their birth certificates will verify their age.

The question is: How in the world can players so young be so good in the very difficult game of professional golf?

The latest example of this was on display under the setting sun in the Arizona desert, where it took 22 holes to determine a champion in the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship.

The combatants in that marathon final? Twenty-six-year-old Jason Day and 23-year-old Victor Dubuisson.

Day has been a regular on the PGA Tour since 2009 and is one of that small group from whom great things are expected.

Dubuisson has won once on the European Tour, in the 2013 Turkish Open in November. He's a guy very few golf fans in the United States know much about. But after the gauntlet he went through Sunday, many more now do.

The show in Sunday's final was spectacular, ending when Day sunk a putt on the 23rd hole to win the biggest event of his career. And now the spotlight on him is even brighter and will really amp up early in April when golf returns to Augusta National for the Masters.

Day almost won the 2013 Masters and will be heavily favored in a little over a month.



If it were just a couple of young guns doing the shooting, it would be viewed as an aberration. But these two are just the tip of the iceberg.

How about Rickie Fowler (23), Jordan Spieth (20), Webb Simpson (28), Billy Horschel (27) and Harris English (24)?

They were part of a pretty amazing statistic this week. Four of the final eight (Day, Spieth and Fowler and Dubuisson) and three of the final four (Day, Dubuisson and Fowler) were golfers in their early to mid-20s.

Now an easy explanation to this could be that most of these guys played plenty of match play golf in college, in their amateur careers and, for some, international play like the Walker C...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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