Day exits in Austin due to mum’s illness

Instead, he won his next six matches to capture this World Golf Championships event for the second time. They make up the only group where all four competitors are major champions. “I’m not playing in Houston next week, so it would be really nice to play well here and get through my bracket because it would be nice to get some competitive rounds under my belt”, said the Scot. “It’s not like Webb was giving me holes”. “Withdrawing from the event is not a decision I made lightly”. I don’t know. We’ll have to see how the year is going.

Day said he went through a wild streak after his father died until he was sent off to a golf academy, where under the teaching and mentoring of Colin Swatton, he rose to be a PGA champion and reach No. 1 in the world.

“There is some unfinished business there that I would like to clear up”, McIlroy said. It’s more like you have to play well. Mickelson, who got a good draw as the 14th-seed, has Daniel Berger next. Berger was smacked 7 and 5 by J.B. Holmes on Wednesday.

He will look for that same form this week in the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas. In six previous appearances, Day has three top-ten finishes at Augusta including a second and third place finish in 2011 and 2013 respectively. His record is 11-2-1 over the last two years, with one of those losses in a meaningless consolation match a year ago. Day conceded the match after the sixth hole and withdrew from the tournament. Fourth seed Hideki Matsuyama halved his match with Jim Furyk. Kuchar’s match against Zach Johnson could be particularly good. Charl Schwartzel had the shortest day, ending his match against Byeong Hun on the 13th hole. “It’s nice. I haven’t had the best start to the season in America. It’s so undulating”, he said. “It’s hard to beat that, especially when the wind was getting up”.

“Having missed a few cuts, I feel as though I’ve not played that much”. Wesley Bryan won in Louisiana past year, and now he’s in Puerto Rico trying to win to get into the top 50 and receive a Masters invitation. “I will still be able to breathe and sleep and have my family there and everything if I’m not here on the weekend”, said Spieth, who has introduced a decent line in sarcasm recently. Thomas defeated Chris Woods, 2 and 1. I was a little behind the eight ball and just didn’t have my best stuff. “I’m a hundred percent healthy”.

Casey, who couldn’t be missed while wearing bright orange trousers, said Luiten joked about his choice of colors.

“Emotionally it’s been wearing on me for a while”, Day said in a brief press conference in Austin.

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