Kevin Na beats world No. 1 Johnson… World 1st and 2nd Johnson and Thomas Frustration in the Round of 16
Lim Seong-jae (23) and Kim Si-woo (26) failed to advance to the round of 16 at the World Golf Championship (WGC) Dell Technologies match play (total prize money of $10.5 million).
Lim Seong-jae lost to Victor Perez (France) by two holes in the 3rd round of Group 16 in the group stage on the third day of the tournament held at the Austin Country Club (par 71) in Austin, Texas on the 27th (Korean time).
After finishing the three group stage matches with 1 win and 2 loss, Im Seong-jae stayed in fourth place, the bottom of the group.
Before the match, all four players in Group 16 recorded 1 win and 1 loss, so if Lim Seong-jae had won this day, we could see the round of 16 tickets given to the first place in the group, but could not overcome the successive losses in the 1st to 3rd holes after the game started.
Afterwards, Lim Seong-jae won the 12th and 13th holes in succession and pursued by one hole.
Siwoo Kim of Group 5 also lost to Antoine Rosner (France) by 3 holes in the final match and was eliminated by 1 draw, 2 losses, and 4th place in the group.
Kim Si-woo won the 1st and 2nd holes and started off happily, but afterwards, he gave the 4th and 8th holes and ended the first half with a draw.
In the second half, Kim Si-woo was taken down the 11th and 12th holes and allowed a reversal, and the defeat was confirmed by giving up even the 17th hole (par 3).
Korean-American player Kevin Na (USA) defeated Dustin Johnson (USA), the world’s No. 1 player in the Group 1 match.
Kevin I was dragged to the 16th hole by one hole, but I put a 6.5m birdie putt in the 17th hole and turned the game to the origin.
In the last hole 18 (par 4), Kevin I beat Johnson with 101 yards left and the second shot 1.2 meters from the hole, catching Buddy.
Kevin I stayed in the bottom of the group with 1-2, but I hit Johnson, who could have reached the round of 16 if I had won that day.
Johnson lost 1 win, 1 draw, 1 loss, and gave the first place in the group to Robert McIntyre (Scotland), who recorded 1 win and 2 draws.
World rankings No. 1 Johnson and 2nd place Justin Thomas (USA) side by side failed to advance to the round of 16 in this tournament.
Thomas had already been eliminated with two losses the day before.
Colin Morikawa in Group 4 and Bryson DeChambo in Group 5 (above the United States) also did not make it to the round of 16.
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