Despite walkover win, McIlroy out of WGC-Match Play as Kjeldsen wins.

Rory McIlroy won’t make it to the weekend at Austin Country Club.
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Rory McIlroy won in a walkover on Thursday at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, getting the win when Gary Woodland withdrew from the tournament for personal reasons. McIlroy earned a full point with one match to go out of the three in the round-robin group play portion of the event.

Unfortunately for the world No. 2, his third match will be meaningless. He’s out of the tournament following his Friday match at Austin Country Club.

That’s because Soren Kjeldsen, the man who beat McIlroy 2 and 1 on Wednesday, gets the point from a walkover of Woodland on Friday. Since the Dane won his Thursday match against Emiliano Grillo, he’s assured of three group points, meaning he will move on to the round of 16 on Saturday.

By Ryan Ballengee.

Full story at Yahoo News.