AUSTIN, Texas – Grinding to the very end, Patrick Cantlay rolled in a winding 17-footer for birdie on the 18th hole for an opening-day victory at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play.
“I feel like it shouldn't be that hard. I was 8 or 9 under par,” Cantlay said with a slightly bewildered look on his face. “I played great. Didn't make any bogeys, and it was all the way to the bitter end really sweating it out.”
Cantlay was 8 under par and his round could have been even better had Brian Harman not conceded the eighth hole with Cantlay eying an 11-footer for birdie.