Match Play lands sponsor for 2015 event at Harding Park
Now we know the Match Play Championship really is coming to San Francisco — the PGA Tour found a company to foot the bill. The tour announced today that Cadillac has agreed to become the title sponsor...
View ArticleVideos: Phil Mickelson looking forward to PGA Tour’s return to Harding Park
The world’s best golfers are coming to San Francisco this spring. That might not include Tiger Woods — as detailed in my most recent golf column (click here) — but the field for the Match Play...
View ArticlePGA Tour makes it official: Match Play will move to Austin in 2016
If you’re wondering why the Match Play Championship will move to Austin, Texas in 2016, after only one year in San Francisco, the answer is simple and familiar: follow the money. The PGA Tour needs...
View ArticleVideos: Buster Posey, Matt Cain and Harris Barton muse about Match Play in SF
The Match Play Championship at Harding Park is only five weeks away, so it seems timely to share these PGA Tour-produced snippets. Giants catcher Buster Posey, Giants pitcher Matt Cain and former 49ers...
View ArticleMickelson withdraws from Match Play at Harding Park
Phil Mickelson withdrew from this week’s Match Play Championship on Sunday, saying he will not come to San Francisco for “personal reasons.” A spokesman for the PGA Tour confirmed the news, which was...
View ArticleVideo: Ben Martin makes hole-in-one, beats Matt Kuchar in Match Play
Ben Martin could learn to like Harding Park. Martin was all-square with Matt Kuchar as they stood on the 17th hole (normally No. 8) in Wednesday’s group-play match at Harding. Then, using a hybrid from...
View ArticleGolf spat: Bradley, Jimenez get in heated argument at Match Play
Here’s something you seldom see in a PGA Tour event: Two players practically nose-to-nose, on the brink of blows. Keegan Bradley and Miguel Angel Jimenez got in a heated tiff on the 18th hole of their...
View ArticleVideo: McIlroy holes bunker shot on his way into quarterfinals
Rory McIlroy barely slipped past Billy Horschel on Friday. Then McIlroy barely broke a sweat against Hideki Matsuyama. McIlroy, the world’s No. 1 player and the biggest name left in the Match Play...
View ArticleMcIlroy finally subdues Casey, advances to Match Play semifinals
Rory McIlroy lives for another day. McIlroy made birdie on the 22nd hole of his suspended quarterfinal match against Paul Casey — their first hole early Sunday morning — to advance to the semifinals of...
View ArticleVideo: McIlroy sinks long putt to beat Furyk and reach Match Play final
Rory McIlroy didn’t climb to No. 1 in the world ranking by accident, you know. McIlroy saved his best for last in Sunday morning’s semifinal tussle with Jim Furyk in the Match Play Championship at...
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