AUSTIN, Texas – On paper this wasn’t a fight, but then the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play field is filled with paper lions.
This isn’t March Madness, despite the best efforts to market it as golf’s version of the NCAA Tournament. Actual seedings for the WGC-Match Play are little more than rough guidelines. But even by those subdued standards, Maverick McNealy, the last man into this week’s field, likely didn’t get much love in many brackets.
When the field was set by the world ranking two weeks ago, McNealy ranked 70th. A week later he’d dropped to 74th and the 26-year-old’s chances of making the field were slim enough that he made sure to have a Plan B in place.