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Golf Week · Mar 26, 2016

Match Play round-robin provides the expected, the surprising and the bizzare

Jordan Spieth ( Getty Images )AUSTIN, Texas — You want perfect, you’ve come to the wrong sport and surely the wrong format.

You think it’s nuts that nine guys who went 2-1 have been eliminated, but two guys who went 1-0-2 are still alive?

You find it curious that the world No. 1, Jordan Spieth, goes 3-0 and has to play the formidable Louis Oosthuizen, also 3-0, in Saturday’s Round of 16, while guys ranked 47th (Ryan Moore) and 65th (Patton Kizzire) have a game of similar stature?

You shake your head at a guy, Brooks Koepka, who gets whipped, 4 and 3, by Danny Willett, but advances, while a guy who makes five birdies and plays 19 bogey-free holes against Rory McIlroy is sent packing?

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