PGA TOUR
WGC-Cadillac Match Play Championship
Dates: April 29-May 3
Venue: TPC Harding Park, San Francisco, Calif.
There were big, and slightly confusing changes in this year’s WGC-Cadillac Match Play Championship. 2015 marked the first time the event featured 64 players, divided into 16 four-player groups competing in a round-robin format over the first three days. Those round-robins served as a play-in for a 16-player match play field.
Coming into the week it looked like this would be the tournament we would get to see world #2 Jordan Spieth prove that he’s Rory McIlory’s rival, and have a chance at beating him. Unfortunately that matchup never happened as Lee Westweek knocked Spieth out of the competition
World #1 McIlory made it to the finals, facing Gary Woodland, by making three comeback wins against Paul Casey and Jim Furyk.
Errant shots for the big-hitting Woodland gave McIlory the advantage. McIlory closed off the match on the 16th hole, winning 4&2.
McIlroy is still number one in the world, and made an emphatic statement reinforcing that ranking at the WGC Cadillac Match Play Championship.
Some of the biggest news of the tournament came in the form of a heated rules dispute between Keegan Bradley and Miguel Angel Jimenez.
LPGA TOUR
Volunteers of America North Texas Shootout
Dates: April 30-May 3
Venue: Las Colinas Country Club, Irving , Texas
The leaderboard was crowded coming into Sunday at the Volunteers of America North Texas Shootout, until Inbee Park turned her round into a shootout.
Park fired a final round 6-under-par 65 on the par-71 Las Colinas Country Club, fueled by early birdies on the 2nd and third holes.
Park’s win this week is her second of the 2015 LPGA Tour season.
CHAMPIONS TOUR
Insperity Invitational
Dates: May 1-3
Venue: The Woodlands Country Club (Tournament Course), The Woodlands, Texas
Speaking of shootouts, The Woodlands Country Club Tournament Course produced five double-digit-under-par rounds this week. Three of those were tied at the end of three regulation rounds.
Ian Woosnam, Kenny Perry, and Tom Lehman (all at -11) entered a playoff on the 18th hole which did not last long. Woosnam made birdie on the par-4 18th to secure the first Champions Tour victory of his career.
