Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play 2022, Day Three

2022 Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play, Hosted by Shadow Creek, Las Vegas: 25-29 May

Day Three: Match of 16, Re-caps

Both Andrea Lee and Caroline Masson came to the Round of 16 undefeated. However, considering Masson had just taken down No. 1 seed Minjee Lee on the final day of group play, the momentum seemed to be heavily in her favor. Right out of the gate, Masson muscled her way to an early 2-up lead, winning the first hole with a par and the third hole with a birdie. But Lee wasn’t going to just lay down. After winning the fourth hole with a birdie, Lee sank another on the fifth to square the match, then added one more on the seventh to go 1 up.

Masson tied things back up with a par on the tenth, but Lee retook the lead on the 13th with a par. Another par from Masson squared the match once again with three to play. Lee ultimately made back-to-back pars to win the 16th and 17th, defeating Masson, 2 and 1, to move on to the Quarterfinals. Read more

From ESPN, by AP:

LAS VEGAS -- Eun-Hee Ji made quick work of Madelene Sagstrom in the Bank of Hope LPGA Match-Play quarterfinals, playing only 12 holes in a 7-and-6 victory Saturday. Andrea Lee, Lilia Vu and Ayaka Furue needed extra holes to join her in the semifinals.

"My putting works really well today," said Ji, the 36-year-old South Korean player who won the 2009 U.S. Women's Open. "Just pretty confident out there."

Ji will face Lee, and Vu will play Furue on Sunday morning at Shadow Creek. The championship and third-place match are Sunday afternoon. Read more

From The Golf News Net:

The 2022 Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play format is unique in golf because it's not only the rare match-play event in professional golf, but it's an individual match-play event with a round-robin group component designed to help preserve the best players in the tournament from being eliminated in a potential fluke loss in the first three days of the event.

The Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play format is similar to that of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, with a 64-player event beginning with 16 groups of round-robin play leading to 16 group winners who advance into a single-elimination, bracket-style tournament to determine a winner. Read more

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