Rory McIlroy at WGC-Cadillac Match Play 2015: Score and Reaction from Friday

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Published: May 2, 2015

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Faced with a win-or-go-home match against Billy Horschel in the final day of round-robin competition at the 2015 WGC-Cadillac Match Play Championship, Rory McIlroy rose to the occasion with a dramatic 20-hole win. 

Trailing by two holes with two holes to play, McIlroy hit back-to-back birdies to force sudden death. He nearly won the match with another birdie on the 19th hole, leaving it just short of the cup, but saved par on No. 20 after Horschel bogeyed. 

McIlroy and Horschel both made it through their first two matches in Group 1 unscathed. McIlroy defeated Jason Dufner (5 and 4) and Brandt Snedeker (2 up) to set up Friday's showdown with the winner advancing to the 16-player single-elimination round starting on Saturday. 

McIlroy will take on Hideki Matsuyama in the round of 16. 

As for how McIlroy fared on each hole, here's a look at his scorecard from the matchup with Horschel:



McIlroy and Horschel are no strangers to each other in match-play events. Horschel beat McIlroy twice at the 2007 Walker Cup in singles and foursomes, but the world's top-ranked player did get revenge in singles competition on Sunday. 

Horschel told Brian Wacker of PGATour.com that the different format allows him to be more aggressive and take some chances in an effort to knock off McIlroy:

I'm not worried about the score out there. Sometimes when I play a regular tournament I'm so much focused on score I get taken out of what I need to do. In this I'm just trying to hit the best shot in this part of the fairway, this part of the green to put the pressure on my opponent and see if he can match me.

There was some hope for bad blood heading into this match stemming from that 2007 Walker Cup. Per Steve DiMeglio of USA Today, McIlroy and Horschel had a poor relationship due to actions from that event, but McIlroy shot down any hope of drama o...
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