Bryson DeChambeau vs. Brooks Koepka: Live updates from The Match

Day 1 of Group Stage gets underway today at the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play. Fans can print their brackets here, and also join and play the Bracket Challenge. Here’s everything you need to know to follow the action on Wednesday. Day 1 tee times Day 1 scores HOW TO FOLLOW TELEVISION: Wednesday-Friday, 2-8 p.m. (Golf Channel). Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (GC), 2-6 p.m. (NBC). Sunday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (GC), 3-7 p.m. (NBC). PGA TOUR LIVE: Wednesday-Friday, 10:15 a.m.-8 p.m. ET (Featured Matches). Saturday, 9:45 a.m.-2 p.m. (Featured Matches). International subscribers (via GOLF.TV): Wednesday-Friday, 14:15 to 00:00 GMT. Saturday, 13:45 to 18:00. RADIO: Wednesday-Friday, 2-8 p.m. ET. Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com). FEATURED MATCHES Bryson DeChambeau vs. Russell Knox, 10:42 a.m. ET Ian Poulter vs. Kevin Kisner, 11:15 a.m. ET Phil Mickelson vs. Henrik Stenson, 1:27 p.m. ET Tiger Woods vs. Aaron Wise, 2 p.m. ET MUST READS Day 1 match previews Texas ties: How Kite and Crenshaw met Power Rankings Expert Picks Spieth looks for Texas turnaround

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ORLANDO - The strict constructionist would say Tiger Woods and 11-year-old son Charlie are in a six-way tie for sixth, four off the lead, after shooting a 10-under-par 62 in the first round of their debut at the PNC Championship at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club. Matt Kuchar and his son, Cameron, 13, lead the 20-team field after shooting a 14-under 58. But how does one measure enjoyment? Because by that metric Charlie, who played from the most forward tees, may just be winning. With Team Woods playing alongside Team Thomas - Justin a sort of big brother figure to the uber-competitive Charlie, and Justin's father Mike a longtime PGA professional and Charlie's occasional coach - fun was going to be baked into the PNC regardless. RELATED: Full leaderboard Saturday, which brought warmer temperatures, did not disappoint, and what happened at the dogleg-left, par-4 13th hole said it all. With Team Thomas having hit, Charlie, way ahead, uncorked a gem. He walked down the fairway without looking back, and Tiger shrugged and walked off the way-back tee without bothering to hit. How could he top that? Some PNC employees and friends laughed, and Charlie spun around. "Like that?" he said. He marched toward his ball, which had settled short of a greenside bunker, but made a detour to Mike's ball, which had not drawn enough and found the right fairway bunker. Justin was the first to that ball and bent down to check the lie. "Charlie left you a note," he said. They read it. "Draw hole," Mike said. He and Justin laughed. "Payback is hell," Mike said. The punch line: Mike had been playing in the group ahead of Charlie in the pro-am earlier in the week and when Charlie hit it through everything and into the trees. Mike tore off a piece of paper, wrote Draw hole and placed it under Charlie's ball. "In typical Woods fashion," Justin said, "he kept the piece of paper, and when my dad hit it in the bunker, he took that same exact piece of paper and put it right behind his ball. It was a little bit of karma. It's just special. The kid's a gamer, he's a grinder. He's competitive. "But he's just so young," Thomas added, checking himself. Indeed, such is Charlie's game, such are his Tiger-like mannerisms, that it's all too easy to get carried away. "This is the first tournament that I've played in that Tiger Woods is playing in that he's not the star of the show," Padraig Harrington said. "He should note that himself. And that's amongst the players and the pros, because we're all goin' down that range and everybody's stopping to watch Charlie. Move out of the way, Tiger. Let us see. It's incredible the buzz it's created." And for good reason. Charlie eagled the par-5 fifth hole on his own ball. He hit his approach to a foot or two at the par-4 16th hole. Tiger didn't even bother to tee off on holes 13, 14 or 18. In a scramble format, with Charlie already in perfect position, why bother? "I knew he was going to wow a lot of people," said Thomas, who with Mike also shot 62. Added Tiger, "I've seen this all along. Probably not a lot of people have, but a lot of the shots he's hit I've seen back home at the Medalist this entire year, this entire pandemic. He's hit these shots. The (nine-hole) junior events he's played in he's hit a lot of these. It's just a matter of stringing these out for three and a half hours, which is a totally different deal." When Charlie walked in his birdie putt at the ninth hole, Woods said, it wasn't anything he hadn't seen before. "He did," he said when asked if Charlie had carried him. "He hit just some of the most incredible golf shots." He paused, then got back on message. The important thing, he said, was that Charlie is enjoying it. He's doing that in part by applying the needle like his dad. When Thomas double-crossed his tee shot on the first hole, Charlie said, "I thought you were trying to cut it." Thomas laughed about the exchange, and said he and Woods spoke mid-round about how much they were pulling for their respective partners, a powerless position their own parents have known all too well. Mike played from tees that made the course feel a little long, Justin said. Charlie, though, seemed to settle into his first televised competitive round like a warm bath. "I was pulling for him," Justin said. "I wanted every shot he hit to be the best one that he hit that day. It was a perfect balance of everything; it was competitive, it was joyful, it was memorable, and we had a little banter in there as well."

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There’s a new Mr. Monday in town. Veteran pro Chris Naegel has successfully navigated the lottery-type foray of PGA TOUR Monday qualifying for the third time this month, carding 7-under 64 at Victory Links GC and surviving a 4-for-2 playoff to earn a spot in this week’s 3M Open. Also advancing through the playoff was 40-year-old Andre Metzger, a Dakotas Tour legend who will make his first PGA TOUR start. Australia’s Daniel Gale and University of Tennessee alum Rick Lamb matched 8-under 63s to earn tee times Thursday at TPC Twin Cities with no playoff needed. In all, 64 players competed for four spots in this week’s field. For all scores from this week’s qualifier, click here. Here’s a look at the four players who earned spots in this week’s 3M Open via Monday’s qualifier … Daniel Gale (8-under 63) Age: 26 Hometown: Sydney, Australia Alma mater: N/A PGA TOUR starts: 0 Notes: Set for first career PGA TOUR start after making nine birdies Monday against one bogey … Has spent 2022 season on PGA Tour of Australasia, with a pair of runner-up finishes among 10 top-25 finishes in 12 starts … Australia native now resides in Castle Hill, Georgia … Started playing golf at age 6; attended Jack Newton junior golf program in Australia … Was awarded Renay Appleby Award in 2013 as part of Jack Newton program … Currently stands No. 546 on Official World Golf Ranking. Rick Lamb (8-under 63) Age: 31 Hometown: South Bend, Indiana Alma mater: University of Tennessee PGA TOUR starts: 32 Cuts made: 12 Best PGA TOUR finish: T3, 2017 John Deere Classic Notes: Made six birdies and an eagle Monday to earn his spot in the field … Knows how to win as a Monday qualifier, having done so at the 2016 LECOM Health Challenge on the Korn Ferry Tour … Has a twin brother, Scott, who has spent time on PGA TOUR Latinoamerica … 2-for-2 in made cuts this season on TOUR, having finished T30 at The Honda Classic and T15 at Corales Puntacana Championship … Played 31 events on 2020-21 Korn Ferry Tour, making 15 cuts and finishing No. 129 on Points List. Andre Metzger (7-under 64; advanced via playoff) Age: 40 Hometown: Sioux Falls, South Dakota Alma mater: Lamar PGA TOUR starts: 0 Notes: Longtime grinder earned his first TOUR start in emotional fashion with a birdie on the third playoff hole of Monday’s qualifier … Has found great success on the Dakotas Tour, on which he had accrued double-digit victories … Has spent time as a pizza delivery driver while funding his pro golf dreams … Has made 26 career Korn Ferry Tour starts, highlighted by a T19 at the 2019 Chitimacha Louisiana Open … Won a high school state basketball title at Norman High School in Oklahoma. Chris Naegel (7-under 64; advanced via playoff) Age: 39 Hometown: Wildwood, Missouri Alma mater: Missouri Baptist PGA TOUR starts: 7 Cuts made: 4 Best PGA TOUR finish: T16, 2022 John Deere Classic Notes: Demonstrating a knack for qualifiers this summer. After earning a U.S. Open spot via Final Qualifying – then finishing T56 at Brookline – he also gained John Deere Classic entry via Monday qualifying, proceeding to a notch a TOUR-best T16, and Monday qualified into last week’s Barracuda Championship (MC). He stood T6 into the final round at TPC Deere Run before closing with a 2-over 73 … Currently holds 52 non-member FedExCup points as he chases the equivalent of a season-ending top-200 position that would secure Korn Ferry Tour Finals entry; the No. 200 spot currently holds 83 points … Best TOUR-sanctioned finish is a solo fourth at the Korn Ferry Tour’s 2019 WinCo Foods Portland Open, including a hole-in-one during the final round … Was a frequent travel buddy of TOUR winner Adam Long, a fellow St. Louis-area native, during their formative years in professional golf.

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