Rory McIlroy overcame Lucas Herbert to achieve the quarter-finals of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play in Austin.
McIlroy received a high quality contest which got here right down to the ultimate gap to arrange a quarter-final in opposition to Xander Schauffele afterward Saturday.
“It felt great,” stated McIlroy. “If you look at the stats over the last three days, Lucas probably played some of the best golf of everyone, so I knew I was in for a tough game.
“It was one of those games where it was really back and forth. On that back nine I had to hole some nice putts coming in there to keep my nose in front, and this 18th hole has been good to me over the week.”
Defending champion and world primary Scottie Scheffler rallied from two down with 4 to play to beat JT Poston and e-book a final eight conflict with Jason Day.
Sam Burns sunk world quantity 4 Patrick Cantlay 2&1 to arrange a final eight assembly with world quantity 60 Mackenzie Hughes, who beat Max Homa 3&2.
The fourth quarter-final places Kurt Kitayama in opposition to Cameron Young after comfy wins over Andrew Putman and Billy Horschel respectively.