AUSTIN, Texas – Keith Mitchell was just looking for a little insight from the man who is widely considered a match-play magician, but it appears he’s going to have to settle for some on-the-job training.
Ian Poulter was playing a practice round at Augusta National on Sunday when he spotted Mitchell on an adjacent hole. After a brief conversation, they discovered they were taking private flights from Augusta, Ga., to Austin, Texas, for this week’s WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play on Monday morning and agreed to share Mitchell’s plane.
During the flight Mitchell, who is playing the WGC-Match Play for the first time, asked Poulter, who won the event in 2010, the keys to playing match play.