Kevin Kisner set the World Golf Championship on fire to make semis
Kevin Kisner still reps a big, red Georgia ‘G’ on his golf bag.
It’s fitting. Even though ‘Kiz’ graduated in 2006, he’s still the biggest Bulldog on the PGA Tour.
Take, for example, his snarling four holes of grit and fury in the World Golf Championship at Austin Country Club.
Kevin Kisner won the Dell Technologies Match Play in 2019, but stared down a ‘Round of 16’ exit against Adam Scott in this year’s event.
Then the Bulldog bit back.
Kevin Kisner turned on the burners to make World Golf Championship history
No one had ever come back from down 3 with four holes to play at the WGC-Dell Technologies match play.
That was Kevin Kisner’s reality against Adam Scott, until that Bulldog mentality kicked in.
Kisner proceeded to eagle a menacing bunker shot on 16, win the last four holes against Scott, and beat Will Zalatoris in the quarterfinals.
Kisner will have to take down Canadian Corey Conners in the semifinals to make it to another WGC finale against either Dustin Johnson or Scottie Scheffler.
As Kisner showed in the round of 16, a runner-up finish to fellow Georgia golf star Bubba Watson in 2018, and his championship in 2019, you can’t ever count him out in Austin.
“I don’t ever give up. I knew I needed to make some birdies, I knew I needed him to start thinking about it,” Kisner said of his Saturday dramatics.
“That’s what I’m always trying to do is get the opponent to think about what I’m doing instead of what they’re doing, and I was able to do that when I holed that bunker shot on 16.”
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Kisner’s next shot at history would put him in the company of Tiger Woods
Only Tiger Woods and Geoff Ogilvy have made it to the WGC championship round three times, since the event began in 1999.
With a win over Conners, Kisner would join that crew.
The Bulldog already felt dangerous earlier this week.
He extended Georgia’s winning ways over Alabama in his defeat of Justin Thomas.
Kiz didn’t want to give JT any hope of revenge after the Dawgs’ football National Championship.
Kirby Smart would never let him hear the end of that (even after this account of Smart’s round at Augusta National).
Now, Kisner has a chance to win yet another championship of his own.
When he and Corey Conners tee off at 9:20 AM ET, the Canadian better be ready for some international head games.
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