WGC DELL TECHNOLOGIES MATCH PLAY

March 24, 2022

Lee Westwood

Austin Country Club

Quick Quotes

Q. Exciting match to watch. What was it like to play in? Is?

LEE WESTWOOD: Yeah, it was great. Just had just about had a bit of everything. Couple of wides from both of us, a lot of good shots, some nice putts, some good saves, so, yeah it was just your, kind of just the way you want match play matches to go.

Came down to the wire at the end, I had to finish eagle, birdie and then a good par at the last to that tricky pin. So, yeah it was a good game, very up-and-down and it was tight.

Q. Your 20th year playing in this championship, what is it that make us you keep coming back and playing in this format?

LEE WESTWOOD: I just love match play. We play 72-hole stroke play week in, week out, and it's just so good to play one guy against the other. And it throws up so many different shots than 72 holes of stroke play, it kind of gets in everybody's mind and people you think are out of the hole and then they're not out of the hole and they hole a long putt.

And it's just real good fun. Kind of takes me back to my amateur days when I played a lot of match play.

Q. Back and forth match with the No. 9 seed and you're able to finish it off at 18. Great work today out there. How did you get it done?

LEE WESTWOOD: It was good. It was up-and-down. Bryson was up early and then I threw a few birdies around the turn and got 2-up and then he came back at me and then I eagled 16, drive and a 7-iron in there to about six feet and we both birdied 17. Like you say, the 18th's a tricky hole, it's straight into the wind, tough flag at the back, so just a bit of an error going long by Bryson, tough up-and-down from there. I thought he made his putt, but it just lipped out.

Q. This is such an amazing format because you lose your first round match, that's a distant memory, you can take the group tomorrow against Bland. How do you see that?

LEE WESTWOOD: Yeah, it gives you a chance. Match play's always very volatile, but with kind of the round robin format over the first few days it does give you a chance if you happen to play badly or you come up against somebody hot.

So lots of permutations, I'm sure it's great for people watching at home, the first three days of this is a, when I wasn't in it, this, they were my three favorite days of the year to watch golf there's so much going on.