WGC Game Play: Dust Na Johnson warned Kevin Na before being knocked down by Bob MacIntyre | Golf News

There was a big drama in Group 1 at the WGC Match Play as Dustin Johnson was warned by Kevin Na for breaking the match play etiquette, and then Bob MacIntyre put the final pitch to the No. 1 world. removed from the event.

Dustin Johnson was released from WGC-Dell Technologies Game Play after a controversy over rules followed by a shocking scramble from Bob McIntyre on the final hole.

Johnson was warned by Kevin Na about breaking the etiquette of playing a game on the 11th field, and the feeling between the two was frozen for the rest of their game as Na claimed his first win of the game. per week.

But the No. 1 world had rubbed salt into his wounds and lined a crucial par putt on the 18th, when a ball suddenly hit the green and came to rest within three feet from the flag.

Johnson was surprised to learn that MacIntyre owned the fake ball, which had to win the final hole to cut his case down with Adam Long and broke on a driver. 370-yards found the green, and it was the shot that Johnson put out the contest.

Unable to make Long birdie from 30ft minutes after Johnson defeated Na, he surrendered the eagle’s putt to MacIntyre who ensured the Scot finished 24th. top-year Group 1, with one win and two half-games giving him half a point ahead of the No. 1 world.

“It was probably one of the best and best golf shots I’ve ever hit,” said MacIntyre, who was three down at the turn before winning three of the next four holes. just for Long to get back a birdie lead at the 15th.

“I had a bit of bad luck here and there and I managed to turn it around at the end, and this is one of those things. You have to keep fighting until the end, and it just shows that nothing can happen in this game.

“It’s really exciting for me and it’s really hard for me to keep going. It’s something I’ve been trying to do from the start before we started. I was trying to get out of the group. But today was a big deal for me.

“I was three down through nine, and Mike [caddie, Mike Thomson] he shook me on the 10th tee, telling me ‘we have to keep fighting here’. That’s something I’ll always be inside, but my head was down through nine and I didn’t know where to go, but we kept giving ourselves opportunities, so it happened to turn around at the just in time. “

MacIntyre will now prepare for a last-16 show with Ryder Cup team-mate Victor Perez while Johnson was left to fatten his wounds and reflect on his change with Na at the 11th.

Johnson scrambled out for a birdie that would have won the hole and squared the game, and picked up the ball before being accepted by Na – an event similar to the 2019 controversy between Sergio Garcia and Matt Kuchar.

At that point, Garcia picked up the ball while he was next to the hole and Kuchar claimed the hole for not yielding to the putt. However, unlike Kuchar, Na sportingly agreed half the hole with Johnson after reminding him that he had to wait for a clear discount.

Na explained: “His putt went out and he had six inches and of course he’s fine, but I hadn’t said anything and he knocked it off. I froze there, and I wasn’t going to I was going to say, ‘you know what, that was good anyway’, but I didn ‘t want to be over my head. push and think about that.

“So I called him and said, ‘Hey, I’m not going to take the hole from you but I just want to let you know before I say something you put the ball down. But I’m going give you that putt so we can call it half and go to the next hole ‘.

“That’s what we did. I think it’s the right thing to do. We all know he can do a six-inch putt, so I think I did the right thing. “