Johnson, Mickelson perfect in Match Play

Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson showed the simple side to the Dell Technologies Match Play. For three straight days in warmth, wind or rain at Austin, Texas, they built early leads and never let anyone get close to them in advancing out of their groups to the knockout stage.

For just about everyone else, it was a matter of surviving.

Bill Haas delivered another amazing escape when he chipped in from 120 feet to save par and extend a sudden-death playoff that he eventually won in six holes. Marc Leishman made it to the round of 16 by playing two holes Friday. He was awarded a victory because Jason Day withdrew Wednesday, got a reprieve when Lee Westwood beat Pat Perez to force a three-man playoff, and beat Westwood on the second hole with a 12-foot birdie.

Johnson, going for his third straight PGA Tour victory, has never trailed and rolled to a 5-and-3 win over Jimmy Walker. Mickelson made no mistakes and had no trouble in a 6-and-5 victory over J.B. Holmes.

Johnson and Alex Noren (No. 8) were the only top-10 seeds left going into the weekend. Rory McIlroy (2) was mathematically eliminated Thursday; Day (3) withdrew; Hideki Matsuyama (4) didn’t win a match all week; and Jordan Spieth (5) didn’t make it out of group play for the second time in three years.

Bryson DeChambeau ran off four straight birdies in a stop-andstart round and finished with a seven-under-par 65 to share the lead with D.A. Points at 11 under in the rain-delayed Puerto Rico Open. Bill Lunde also was at 11 under and still had three holes to play . ... Christie Kerr shot a three-under 69 and holds a one-shot lead over Mo Martin and Mirim Lee at the LPGA’s Kia Classic at Carlsbad. Kerr is at nine-under 135.