WGC-Dell Match Play 2021: Bryson DeChambeau, Rory McIlroy Rating Round 2 Wins

Team-stage play persevered for a 2d day within the WGC-Dell Applied sciences Match Play on Thursday at Austin Country Membership.

Arnold Palmer Invitational winner Bryson DeChambeau rebounded from a loss to Antoine Rozner to beat Si Woo Kim 2 and 1. Likewise, Rory McIlroy got his first fetch to steadiness out an opening day summed up by a tee shot that landed within the pool of a nearby house owner.

High seed Dustin Johnson, on the opposite hand, had to accept a tie with Robert MacIntyre.

Round 2 Outcomes

Team 1: Dustin Johnson tied Robert MacIntyre

Team 1: Adam Long def. Kevin Na (2 and 1)

Team 2: Kevin Kisner def. Justin Thomas (2 and 1)

Team 2: Matt Kuchar def. Louis Oosthuizen (1 up)

Team 3: Jon Rahm def. Shane Lowry (2 up)

Team 3: Ryan Palmer def. Sebastian Munoz (2 and 1)

Team 4: Max Homa def. Collin Morikawa (2 and 1)

Team 4: J.T. Poston def. Billy Horschel (4 and 2)

Team 5: Bryson DeChambeau def. Si Woo Kim (2 and 1)

Team 5: Tommy Fleetwood def. Antoine Rozner (4 and 3) 

Team 6: Xander Schauffele def. Jason Day (2 and 1)

Team 6: Scottie Scheffler tied Andy Sullivan

Team 7: Patrick Reed def. Christiaan Bezuidenhout (2 and 1)

Team 7: Joaquin Niemann tied Bubba Watson

Team 8: Sergio Garcia def. Tyrrell Hatton (3 and 2)

Team 8: Lee Westwood def. Matt Wallace (5 and 3)

Team 9: Mackenzie Hughes def. Webb Simpson (4 and 3)

Team 9: Paul Casey def. Talor Gooch (3 and 2)

Team 10: Patrick Cantlay def. Carlos Ortiz (1 up)

Team 10: Brian Harman def. Hideki Matsuyama (1 up)

Team 11: Rory McIlroy def. Lanto Griffin (4 and 3)

Team 11: Ian Poulter def. Cameron Smith (1 up)

Team 12: Tony Finau tied Will Zalatoris

Team 12: Dylan Frittelli def. Jason Kokrak (3 and 2)

Team 13: Bernd Wiesberger def. Viktor Hovland (4 and 2)

Team 13: Abraham Ancer def. Kevin Streelman (2 and 1)

Team 14: Brendon Todd def. Daniel Berger (2 and 1) 

Team 14: Erik van Rooyen def. Harris English (2 and 1)

Team 15: Matt Fitzpatrick def. Corey Conners (5 and 4)

Team 15: Matthew Wolff tied Jordan Spieth

Team 16: Marc Leishman def. Sungjae Im (2 and 1)

Team 16: Russell Henley def. Victor Perez (4 and 3)

A gradual originate doomed McIlroy in opposition to Ian Poulter. He fell within the attend of by three holes as he approached the No. 6 tee and couldn’t climb attend from that deficit.

It used to be the reverse sage in opposition to Lanto Griffin. The 2015 match champion took the first three holes to manufacture a commanding lead. His advantage shriveled to one-up as they made the flip to the attend 9 but then swelled attend to four-up by 13 holes.

“It used to be mammoth,” McIlroy advised newshounds of the cease end result. “Obviously winning the match keeps me within the match but I didn’t play that badly the previous day. I hit a pair of harmful photographs but Poults played very effectively and deserved to fetch the match.”

DeChambeau led for quite quite a bit of the model in opposition to Kim but struggled to manufacture any distance on the No. 48 seed. Kim used to be briefly ahead on the attend 9 after taking the 10th and 11th holes.

DeChambeau battled attend on No. 14 to tie issues up, and a par on No. 15 used to be sufficient to position him on high once extra. He dealt the closing blow with a par on No. 17 to recede Kim and not utilizing a street to victory.

One advantage of match play is that a inappropriate shot doesn’t have as mammoth of an impact because it might perhaps perhaps perchance perchance on a passe spherical. On No. 10, DeChambeau attempted to attain the green off the tee and as a change sliced the shot so badly it went nearly 90 levels to the factual of the tee field.

Laughing off one in all those misfires is quite a bit more easy once you restful pull out the fetch.

Johnson’s tie with MacIntyre used to be a memoir of two halves. Johnson used to be one-up for seven of the first eight holes before MacIntyre leveled the rating with a birdie on No. 9. The 24-twelve months-light Scot then overtook Johnson and led for the first seven holes of the attend 9.

A slack surge by the two-time predominant champion allowed him to on the least steer obvious of defeat. He eagled the 16th gap and birdied No. 17.

Kevin Kisner’s defense of his 2019 WGC Match Play title is rolling alongside properly. The 37-twelve months-light prevailed in a head-to-head conflict with Louis Oosthuizen and dealt Justin Thomas his 2d loss Thursday.

Kisner used to be four-up by seven holes to position early rigidity on Thomas, who claimed three straight holes on the attend 9 to almost erase the deficit. Sadly for Thomas, Kisner held critical the remainder of the model and sealed his victory on No. 17 as each golfers recorded a par.

The spherical-robin crew stage will continue for one extra day before the discipline winnows to 16 golfers for the knockout levels.