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WGC Match Play: Perez and Rozner challenge the world's elite in Texas

2021-03-23T12:55:37.496Z


The two French compete in this prestigious stage of the world championships which begins on Wednesday.


Created in 1999, the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play which celebrates its 22nd edition at the Austin Country Club, a very spectacular par 71 of 6500 meters, had been canceled in 2020 due to the health crisis.

This second world championship of the calendar year brings together the 64 best golfers in the world rankings in Austin for the fifth time since 2016. The American Kevin Kisner, 36th player in the world, winner in 2019 of Matt Kuchar in the final, 3 & 2, puts his title on the line. Great first for the Blues Victor Perez and Antoine Rozner in this event unlike any other, contested in match-play with a one-against-one formula in Ryder Cup mode, seldom used on world circuits.

Since the new format of 2015, the four players of the same group, there are sixteen of them, compete from Wednesday to Friday, one against one during the group stages.

A match won is worth one point, a draw gives everyone ½ point, a match lost 0 points.

The player having gleaned the greatest number of points wins his hen and continues the adventure, the other three stop there.

Thus from Saturday, the first 16 of the 16 pools will compete in the round of 16, as in tennis with a classic knockout table until the final on Sunday.

Among the 64 players present this week, the World Top 50 is there in its entirety.

Only missing Brooks Koepka, injured knee, the English Justin Rose (back) or Adam Scott and of course Tiger Woods, still recovering after his serious car accident.

A good shot for Victor Perez

It is a rare event in French golf.

After 2015 with Victor Dubuisson and Alexander Levy, two French people validated their qualification for this elite tournament.

Victor Perez and Antoine Rozner are thus (only) the fifth and sixth French to be entered in this WGC Match Play after Jean Van de Velde (2001), Thomas Levet (2005), Victor Dubuisson (2014, 15, 16) and Alexander Levy (2015, 18).

In the wake of his top 10 in the Players Championship, the French number one Victor Perez, who should have played the 2020 edition, inherited a hen that is apparently affordable.

Placed in the last group on the 16th, the 33emondial will challenge the South Korean Sungjae Im, the Australian Marc Leishman and the American Russell Henley.

"It is a particular format, and which has its charm precisely because it is not used often," he told the site of the French Golf Federation (FFG).

So it's nice to come back to it from time to time, because it involves strategies different from stroke play, which we have to adapt according to the opponent.

You have to play your own game, that's obvious, but watch from time to time what the rival is doing. "

When he played in the Challenge Tour (second European division), Victor Perez had played in the Belgian Knockout in 2018 (defeat in the quarter-finals), played in this format.

Three years later, he moved into another dimension ...

Group 16:



[16] Sungjae Im


[31] Victor Perez


[36] Marc Leishman


[50] Russell Henley pic.twitter.com/CtgEEzf1CU

- WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play (@DellMatchPlay) March 22, 2021

Rozner challenges DeChambeau entry

For his first experience on the PGA Tour, Antoine Rozner for his part inherited a group, the 5, particularly noted with the inevitable world number 5 Bryson DeChambeau or the flamboyant Tommy Fleetwood, very comfortable in match- play, as does South Korean Si Woo Kim.

Recent winner on the Qatar Masters European tour, the 64th World Cup has absolutely nothing to lose and will play its first match on Wednesday against DeChambeau.

Rude baptism!

Victor Perez also entered this Wednesday against Marc Leishman.

The two French dream of following in the footsteps of Victor Dubuisson, beaten in the final by Jason Day in 2014 after an incredible suspense in the play-off at the 23rd hole at Dove Mountain in the Arizona desert.

The Cannois had earned his nickname "Cactus Boy" there.

Between the foot of a cactus and a television cable, the former French number one had twice released two legendary chips to mark a milestone in the history of world golf.

Group 5:



[5] Bryson DeChambeau


[21] Tommy Fleetwood


[45] Si Woo Kim


[58] Antoine Rozner pic.twitter.com/3Sna75dWSi

- WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play (@DellMatchPlay) March 22, 2021

WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play - $ 10,500,000 endowment (8,834,227 euros endowment) 

The 16 groups of hens

Group1

 : Dustin Johnson;

Kevin Na;

Robert MacIntyre;

Adam Long

Group 2

 : Justin Thomas;

Louis Oosthuizen;

Kevin Kisner;

Matt Kuchar

Group 3

 : Jon Rahm;

Ryan Palmer;

Shane Lowry;

Sebastián Muñoz

Group 4

 : Collin Morikawa;

Billy Horschel;

Max Homa;

JT Poston

Group 5

 : Bryson DeChambeau;

Tommy Fleetwood;

Si Woo Kim;

Antoine Rozner

Group 6

 : Xander

Sc Chaudele

;

Scottie Scheffler;

Jason Day;

Andy Sullivan

Group 7

 : Patrick Reed;

Joaquin Niemann;

Christiaan Bezuidenhout;

Bubba Watson

Group 8

 : Tyrrell Hatton;

Lee Westwood;

Sergio Garcia;

Matt Wallace

Group 9

 : Webb Simpson;

Paul Casey;

Mackenzie Hughes;

Talor Gooch

Group 10

 : Patrick Cantlay;

Hideki Matsuyama;

Carlos Ortiz;

Brian Harman

Group 11

 : Rory McIlroy;

Cameron Smith;

Lanto Griffin;

Ian Poulter

Group 12

 : Tony Finau;

Jason Kokrak;

Will Zalatoris;

Dylan Frittelli

Group 13

 : Viktor Hovland;

Abraham Ancer;

Bernd Wiesberger;

Kevin Streelman

Group 14

 : Daniel Berger;

Harris English;

Brendon Todd;

Erik van Rooyen

Group 15

 : Matt Fitzpatrick;

Matthew Wolff;

Corey Conners;

Jordan Spieth

Group 16

 : Sungjae Im;

Victor Perez;

Marc Leishman;

Russell Henley (50).

To watch WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play on TV:

Wednesday March 24, 1st round: 7:00 p.m. (Golf +) Thursday March 25, 1st round: 7:00 p.m. (Golf +) Friday March 26, 1st round: 7:00 p.m. (Golf +) Saturday March 27, round of 16 and quarter-finals: 3:00 p.m. ( Golf +);

8:50 p.m. (Canal + Sport) Sunday March 28, semi-finals, 3rd place and final: 4:00 p.m. (Golf +);

7:00 p.m. (Canal + Sport)

Source: lefigaro

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