Match Play needs a facelift

It almost makes too much sense, so it’ll probably never happen. Even before we got the sleep-inducing final at last week’s WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Phil Mickelson was thinking out loud about the event’s future.

“In my perfect world, I’d like to see the first three rounds, 54 holes, Wednesday through Friday, played stroke-play and knock it down to the top eight,” he said. “I feel like it gives the top players a little bit better chance of getting into the match-play format for the weekend.”

This has little to do with David Toms and Chris DiMarco, although their appearance in the final likely made a lot of people - myself included - start thinking about an extreme makeover. After last week’s snooze-fest, it’s time for some kind of change.