Golf’s edition of March Madness is here as the PGA Tour is in Austin, Texas, for the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin Country Club for the final time.
Eight of the top nine players in the Official World Golf Ranking are in the field — No. 5 Cam Smith is ineligible while No. 10 Justin Thomas chose to take the week off due to an unsuccessful resume at ACC.
World No. 1 and Players champion Scottie Scheffler is looking to defend a title successfully for the second time this season (WM Phoenix Open). The Texan is the betting favorite at +800 followed by Jon Rahm at +1100.
Golf course
Austin Country Club | Par 71 | 7,108 yards | Pete Dye design
Course comparisons (according to Data Golf): 1. Harbour Town Golf Links (home of the RBC Heritage), 2. Colonial Country Club (home of the Charles Schwab Challenge), 3. TPC Sugarloaf
Kevin Na plays against Matthew Fitzpatrick during the first round of the 2022 WGC- Dell Technologies Match Play at Austin Country Club. (Photo: Erich Schlegel-USA TODAY Sports)
Course history
Quadrant by quadrant…group by group. Complete career and Austin CC match play history along with current Strokes Gained form. #DellMatchPlay pic.twitter.com/2QQa6OnmXs
— Ron Klos (@PGASplits101) March 20, 2023
Betting preview
| Player | Odds | Player | Odds |
| Scottie Scheffler | (+800) | Collin Morikawa | (+2800) |
| Jon Rahm | (+1100) | Cameron Young | (+3300) |
| Rory McIlroy | (+1400) | Jason Day | (+3300) |
| Patrick Cantlay | (+1800) | Will Zalatoris | (+3300) |
| Max Homa | (+2000) | Matt Fitzpatrick | (+4000) |
| Tony Finau | (+2200) | Sungjae Im | (+4000) |
| Jordan Spieth | (+2500) | Sam Burns | (+4200) |
| Tyrrell Hatton | (+2500) | Tom Kim | (+4500) |
| Viktor Hovland | (+2500) | Tommy Fleetwood | (+4500) |
| Xander Schauffele | (+2500) | Hideki Matsuyama | (+5000) |
Max Homa hits his tee shot on the second hole during the final round of the Sentry Tournament of Champions golf tournament at Kapalua Resort – The Plantation Course. (Photo: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports)
Max Homa represented the United States for the first time in 2022 at the Presidents Cup. During the match-play event, Homa went 4-0-0.
He’s failed to make it out of group play in his two appearances at ACC but he’s a different player now. In his last three starts, Homa has finished second at the Genesis Invitational, T-13 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and T-6 at the Players.
The rest of his group: Hideki Matsuyama, Kevin Kisner and Justin Suh.
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