Mar 17, 2021 The PGA Tour heads to Austin, Texas this week for the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play. This event was canceled last year because of the pandemic. Kevin Kisner won in 2019 and was runner-up in 2018. Which players are the favorites this time around, who offers good odds and what props are worthwhile?
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8:00 AM ET Christiaan Bezuidenhout does not remember what happened. He was just 2 years old at the time. All these years later, though, he knows how close he came to death. Bezuidenhout, 26, might be the best golfer in the world you don’t know about. He has climbed to 35th in the Official World
8:15 PM ET Two weeks before the Masters, Rory McIlroy is making a formal coaching addition, tapping longtime instructor Pete Cowen to help with his game. McIlroy has sought help from Cowen in recent weeks at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the Players Championship and now will have the Englishman on board in a more
6:17 PM ET ESPN News Services March Madness will makes its way to the golf world this week, as the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play event is set to commence Wednesday at Austin Country Club in Texas after a year off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. World No. 1 Dustin Johnson, who won this event in
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