Weekly 18: A head-scratching turn of events

RULES OVERVIEW: The World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play Bracket Challenge is a free bracket-style game that lets registered users test their PGA TOUR knowledge by picking who they believe will be the winners in each match-up of the 2018 World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play event. The Dell Technologies Match Play event is scheduled to be competed March 21–25, 2018. Prizes will be awarded to the top three finishers in the Challenge. By registering, users agree to accept and be bound by all terms of these Rules and the decisions of PGATOUR.COM, LLC (Administrator), which shall be final. The Challenge may not be used in connection with any form of gambling. The Challenge is subject to all federal, state and local laws and regulations and void where prohibited or restricted by law. Contest may not be used in connection with any form of gambling. 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The Challenge competition begins on March 21, 2018, and ends March 25, 2018. KEY DATES: March 7, 2018: Early registration available to general public to sign up and create leagues March 19, 2018: Bracket available to registered users to make picks. March 21, 2018: Deadline to submit picks is before the first scheduled tee time of the tournament. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the Challenge is to accumulate the most points by correctly selecting the “winning pick” for each of the thirty-one (31) match-ups associated with the Championship. HOW TO PLAY: After registering, to make selections, a user must complete the entire bracket by predicting one (1) winner for each match-up in the Championship. The user will make a prediction by clicking on the name of the golfer they believe will advance to the next round of the Championship (i.e., one golfer out of each Round Robin starting group of 4 to advance to the Round of 16). 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SUN CITY, South Africa — Tommy Fleetwood saved his best for last with a final-round 67 to come from behind and retain his title at the Nedbank Golf Challenge on Sunday as he ended a three-year winless drought. The Englishman moved up from a tie for seventh overnight to finish 11 under par overall and win by a stroke from New Zealand’s Ryan Fox (68), who was hoping to go top of the season rankings with a victory in Sun City but just missed out after making a bogey on the last. Fleetwood won in Sun City in 2019 but was the defending champion after the 2020 and 2021 tournaments were canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He kept his nerve when others around him faded on the final day, making four birdies on his opening nine and rebounding from a bogey on No. 12 with an incredible eagle on the par-5 No. 14 when he holed out from a bunker. He made pars the rest of the way home to become the first player since compatriot Lee Westwood in 2011 to win back-to-back titles at the Nedbank. Fox was the first-round leader after opening with a superb 64, raising his hopes that he could win in Sun City and overtake Rory McIlroy at the top of the European rankings ahead of the season-ending World Tour Championship in Dubai next week. He would have had a chance if not for the bogey five on No. 18 — his only bogey of the round — that allowed Fleetwood to win. Fox stays second in the season standings behind McIlroy, while Fleetwood is fourth heading to Dubai. McIlroy wasn’t playing at the Nedbank Challenge. Shubhankar Sharma (69) was third. Rasmus Hojgaard and Thomas Detry had shared the third-round lead but couldn’t hold on through a final day that was interrupted by rain. Hojgaard carded a 4-over 76 to finish tied for eighth while Detry’s final-round 77 saw him tumble to a share of 13th. European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald was another man in with a chance at the halfway point but his search for a first European or PGA TOUR title in a decade came undone over the weekend as he shot 73 and 75 in his final two rounds to be one of those tied with Detry in 13th place.

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