SAN FRANCISCO – Posterboys for the new-look WGC-Cadillac Match Play Championship? Meet Branden Grace and Tommy Fleetwood.
True, you may need an introduction, given that Grace hails from South Africa and Fleetwood is an unheralded chap from England. But do a quick study, because they’ll be sticking around TPC Harding Park for at least another day, their presence being definitive proof that this surely wasn’t the Match Play of yesteryear.
“The changes they’ve made are positive changes. It gives everyone more than one chance,” Grace said after his 10-foot birdie on the third playoff hole, the par-4 third, won a playoff over Charley Hoffman and Zach Johnson for the right to advance out of Group 7.