If you are a fan of healthy play you're probably conscious that the ET has a new healthy play occasion walking this week. It's referred to as the Saltire Energy Paul Lawrie Match Play and it's being hosted by way of -- you guessed it -- 1999 Open Champion Paul Lawrie.
Unlike a number of the opposite small field match play activities which have been held on the ET within the past, the Saltire has a full sixty four-guy discipline from the Race to Dubai list -- or at least it did while it started on Thursday. It uses a conventional one-and-finished layout with the Top32 gamers paired against the decrease 32.
Lawrie made it past the first spherical and could play Chris Doak nowadays. That may be a tough one on account that Doak got here back from 4 down in the first round to win 1 up -- he took 6 of the very last 9 holes to do it. But Lawrie received his fit towards Romain Wattel five up, so he is gambling properly.
There had been handiest 2 Americans within the area -- John Daly lost his match 2 down to Jorge Campillo, but Peter Uihlein beat Oliver Wilson 2 up. Uihlein will face Matthew Fitzpatrick, the 20-yr-vintage 2013 US Amateur champion who grew to become pro just remaining 12 months. That must be an exciting in shape!
GC's coverage begins at 9am ET -- the same time as ESPN2's coverage of the RICOH Women's British Open -- but Uihlein and Fitzpatrick tee off at 7:35am ET (if I've got my time changes correct) so the two should be well underway when the coverage begins. Lawrie tees off 25 minutes after Uihlein.
This is an inaugural event so in case you love match play you'll need to test it out.
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