Canada's Corey Conners advances to quarter-finals at World Golf Championships

Canada's Corey Conners went up early and never gave Takumi Kanaya of Japan much of a chance in a 5-and-3 victory to advance to the quarter-finals of the Dell Technologies Match Play in Austin, Texas.

The Listowel, Ont., native will face Abraham Ancer in the next round. The Mexican player needed only 12 holes to beat two-time major champion Collin Morikawa.

Kevin Kisner added to his match play legacy Saturday morning when he twice rallied from 3 down and won the final four holes to beat Adam Scott.

It capped a wild day of comebacks and blowouts at Austin Country Club that saw two fourth-round matches had to go extra holes.

The quarter-finals were Saturday afternoon.

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Scottie Scheffler, the ex-Texas Longhorn, got a small measure of revenge in a rematch of the final from a year ago when he beat defending champion Billy Horschel 1 up. Scheffler can go to No. 1 in the world if he wins the tournament because Jon Rahm was eliminated in 19 holes by Brooks Koepka in another dynamic match.

Richard Bland, the oldest player in the field at 49, needed to win his fourth-round match against Dustin Johnson to crack the top 50 in the world and qualify for the Masters. Johnson pulled ahead around the turn and closed him out, 3 and 2.

The Englishman has one last chance. His top-10 finish in Austin gets him in the Texas Open next week in San Antonio. The winner goes to the Masters.

He was a runner-up in Match Play in 2018 and won a year later. No one has won more matches in Austin since the tournament moved here in 2016. For the longest time, it didn't look as though he would add to that total Saturday morning.

Scott won three straight holes on the front nine and was 3