AUSTIN, Texas The drawback of round-robin play at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play is that 20 players will tee off on Friday with no chance to advance to the knockout stages.Although those who havent won or halved a match heading into the final day of pool play can still improve their finish, which means more FedExCup points and earnings, they cant make it to the weekend, which for many makes it somewhat meaningless.Knowing that you are playing a match that you might get 2 more FedEx points and $20,000 or whatever it is. It's tough. It's hard, said Rory McIlroy, who is 1-1-0 and can advance to the weekend if he wins his match on Friday against Brian Harman.You try to go out with the mindset that I'm going to maybe try things or if you are working on your golf swing, it's a good round to take advantage of trying different things, McIlroy said. [But] there's going to be guys going out there tomorrow that would really just want to be on a plane tonight going home.
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Even more curious, there will be players with no way of moving on who will dictate who does make it to the weekend. Matthew Fitzpatrick, for example, is winless this week and will play Paul Casey on Friday. If Fitzpatrick wins it will set up a playoff scenario between Casey, who is 2-0-0, and either Russell Henley or Kyle Stanley, who both have one victory, to decide who advances out of the pod.It's not technically meaningless, Casey said. But it's frustrating when you know you can't possibly win the golf event. None of us turn up here to gain some points. It's to try and win an event.
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No match or stroke would be meaningless, and if a player needed to withdraw early on, it wouldn't have a drastic effect on the early rounds. It would also guarantee that the players playing the best golf would advance to the round of 32 and remove the chance of drawing a bad draw in pod play.
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For last year's Match Play at Harding Park in San Francisco, PGA Tour officials initiated a round-robin format that assured all 64 players would participate in the first three rounds.
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Early rounds would have the drama of players jockeying for position within the top 32 as well as the potential for a thrilling playoff for the final spots in the match play field. No match or stroke would be meaningless, and if a player needed to withdraw early on, it wouldn't have a drastic effect on the early rounds.
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The drawback of round-robin play at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play is that 20 players will tee off on Friday with no chance to advance. Players lament 'meaningless' Friday matches at WGC
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The latest example came on Friday at the WGC-Dell Technologies March Play, when James Hahn took to Twitter to complain that a fan deliberately yelled in his backswing on the 15th hole during his match with Jason Dufner, which he lost 3 and 2. "Whether we like it or not, this is where the game is going," he tweeted.
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