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Jimenez, Bradley come nose-to-nose on last hole of Cadillac match
A match that meant very little on Friday turned out to be the big story at the WGC-Cadillac Match Play Championship.
Miguel Angel Jimenez and Keegan Bradley squared off in the third and final round-robin match in their group at TPC Harding Park, both with no chance to move onto the weekend knockout stage. However, both played the match with intensity and hoping to snag at least one win in the three days.
The match went to No. 18, where Bradley drove his ball left and into a television compound -- considered a temporary movable obstruction under the Rules of Golf and eligible for a free drop. Bradley and caddie Steve Hale, known as Pepsi out on Tour, called in a PGA Tour rules official for the ruling and the drop. However, after Bradley made the drop, Jimenez, who was on the other side of the fairway, came over to dispute the drop with the 2011 PGA champion.
Both Bradley and Hale were annoyed Jimenez had interjected after a rules official gave his opinion, which is typically the be-all-end-all in stroke play, but not match play. As Jimenez continued talking to Bradley, Hale stepped in to stand up for his guy. Jimenez told Hale to "shut up," which prompted Bradley to get into Jimenez's face, saying, "You don't tell my caddie to shut up."
After the match, which Jimenez won 2 up, the two had, according to Golf Channel, an awkward, heated exchange in the locker room in which the Spaniard looked to clear up his side of things. However, Bradley and Hale didn't seem satisfied with Jimenez's explanation and all parties left without a handshake or an apology.
Both parties spoke to the media after that, with Bradley explaining his actions.
“I felt like he was being disrespectful not only to me but my caddie,” Bradley said. “I was kind of standing up for my boy here.”
Jimenez simply wanted to move on.
“Whatever happened there is finished and is done. There is no point in talking about it,” he said.
Bradley and Jimenez are now out of the tournament, but leave with a strained relationship that may take some time to heal.
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