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DOHA, Qatar (AP) Antoine Rozner of France holed a 60-foot birdie putt on the final hole Sunday for a 2-under 69 and a one-shot victory in the Qatar Masters, moving him high enough in the world.
After missing the Players Championship cut, Rory McIlroy acknowledged that swing changes he made after watching the distance gains Bryson DeChambeau achieved have hurt his own game. "I just need to maybe rein it back in a little bit," McIlroy said.
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AUSTIN, Texas – Tournament officials announced today that 18-time PGA TOUR winner Rory McIlroy is set to return and make his 12
th career start at the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play, March 24-28. The 2015 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play champion enters the field ranked No. 11 in the Official World Golf Ranking, adding his name to a stacked list of highly ranked players committed to compete including nine of the top-10 in the OWGR.
At his latest appearance at Austin Country Club in 2019, McIlroy gave a memorable performance in a matchup against 82-time PGA TOUR winner Tiger Woods where he ultimately fell short in the knockout stage after having successfully advanced through the group stage. McIlroy owns three World Golf Championships victories including the 2014 FedEx St. Jude Invitational, the 2015 Dell Technologies Match Play and the 2019 HSBC Champions. In 11 prior appearances at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, the 31-year-old has advance
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AUSTIN, Texas – The World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play announced today that World No. 4 and four-time PGA TOUR winner Collin Morikawa has committed to debut at the 2021 event, which returns to Austin Country Club March 24-28. The 24-year-old will also be joined by Oklahoma State University graduates Matthew Wolff and Viktor Hovland and 2021 Genesis Invitational winner Max Homa.
Morikawa, who turned professional in 2019 after graduating from the University of California-Berkeley, has collected four titles in just two years on TOUR including the 2020 PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park. Last Sunday he re-entered the winners circle at the World Golf Championships-Workday Championship at The Concession in Bradenton, Florida where he posted 18-under 270 for a three-stroke victory over Billy Horschel, Hovland and Brooks Koepka. The win not only marked his fourth title but also allowed him to join Tiger Woods as the only players in history to win a major cha