WGC-Dell Match Play: Tips for Your Brackets for the Top-5 Groups

Group 2: Jason Day, Paul Casey, Thongchai Jaidee, Graeme McDowell

They don’t call it a World Golf Championship for nothing. These four men, none of them Americans, hail from four different countries, and their group promises to be one of the week’s most exciting. Day, fresh off a gutsy win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, will look to keep it going and capture his second Match Play title in three years.

He won’t have an easy time surviving the group stage, however. Casey was also in the top 10 at Bay Hill and has built one of the most impressive match play resumes of anyone on the PGA Tour. He’s been the runner-up at the WGC-Match Play on two occasions and has a strong record at the Ryder Cup.

McDowell’s match play reputation is similarly strong. The Northern Irishman clinched the 2010 Ryder Cup for Team Europe (with an assist from Hunter Mahan, who’s not in this week’s field) and has notched three top 10s in his last five WGC-Match Play appearances. While his game took a nosedive last year, he’s been playing solidly this season, and his experience always poses a threat in match play.

Then there’s Jaidee, who’s kind of the odd man out in this star-studded group. The 46-year-old is not especially well-known among American fans, but he’s got the kind of game to change that this week.

Next: Group 4