Stars Like Rory, Bubba, Jordan Should Stay Alive for Weekend in New Match Play

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Published: April 23, 2015

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The problem with match play is that it's unpredictable. Anybody can beat anybody over 18 holes. Nick O'Hern beat Tiger Woods in the first round in 2007 and in the second round in 2005, for example. 

It's a system where anybody can have a bad day. When the top players get beat early, casual fans lose interest. Now the PGA Tour hopes there's a fix for that. The new format.

This year's Cadillac Match Play Championship fixes the problem of the No. 64 player in the world taking out the No. 1-ranked player on Wednesday. Instead of four brackets like the NCAA uses, which eventually comes down to two finalists, there is now a round robin for all 64 players. The field is divided into four groups of 16 players with the top 16 each forming the basis for one round-robin group or "pod."

Then three players—one from Nos. 17-32, 33-48 and 49-64—are added to each pod. The round-robin matches are held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The players with the best record in the round robin advance to the round of 16 on Saturday. It doesn't mean that McIlroy, Bubba Watson and Jordan Spieth will be there on Saturday, but given their world rankings, they should emerge, in theory, playing against golfers with lower rankings.

It is still unclear on what basis the player placement in brackets for the round of 16 will be decided. Does the highest-ranked player remaining after the round robin get the No. 1 seed? What if No. 64 emerges from his pod? Where does he fall in the round of 16?

However they are arranged, the round of 16 will be played Saturday morning, followed by the quarterfinals Saturday afternoon, the semifinals Sunday morning and the finals Sunday afternoon.

Last year's champ, Jason Day, is looking forward to it.

"The cool thing about the match play is it doesn't really matter how you play. So you can play some terrible golf within those 18 holes that you play and still come o...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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