'The Match' changes up usual format in new star-studded event

"The Match" volition beryllium backmost aboriginal this month, but it volition look awfully antithetic from years past.

For the 3rd clip since the archetypal installment backmost successful 2018, "The Match" volition not diagnostic immoderate nonrecreational golfers - but this lawsuit volition marque history.

This volition beryllium the archetypal clip "The Match" volition agelong crossed 2 days successful a four-team bracket.

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Signage during Capital One's The Match: Champions For Change - Previews astatine The Reserve astatine Moonlight Basin connected July 5, 2021, successful Big Sky, Montana.  (Stacy Revere/Getty Images for The Match)

One broadside of the bracket features the duo of Wayne Gretzky and Bill Murray going up against Charles Barkley and Ken Griffey Jr. The different broadside of the bracket volition beryllium Michael Phelps and Mark Wahlberg vs. Blake Griffin and Nate Bargate.

However, the semifinals and finals volition beryllium played nether an individual, match-play format.

Barkley volition beryllium the lone personage with erstwhile acquisition successful "The Match," competing successful 2020 alongside Phil Mickelson. They went up against Stephen Curry and Peyton Manning.

The astir caller variation of "The Match" was played by Rory McIlroy, Max Homa, Lexi Thompson and Rose Zhang.

Charles Barkley plays his changeable from the archetypal tee during Capital One's The Match: Champions For Change astatine Stone Canyon Golf Club connected November 27, 2020, successful Oro Valley, Arizona.  (Christian Petersen/Getty Images for The Match)

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This volition beryllium a preview of what conscionable whitethorn beryllium the astir anticipated mentation of the lawsuit it has ever seen, arsenic adjacent period volition diagnostic a "LIV vs. PGA" edition.

On Dec. 17, noted rivals Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau, who played against 1 different successful 2021, volition squad up to correspond LIV against McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler, who volition correspond the PGA Tour. That lawsuit volition instrumentality spot astatine Shadow Creek Golf Course successful Las Vegas, the tract of the archetypal lawsuit betwixt Mickelson and Tiger Woods.

General presumption of the 18th spread anterior to Capital One's The Match: Champions For Change astatine Stone Canyon Golf Club connected November 26, 2020, successful Oro Valley, Arizona. Phil Mickelson and Charles Barkley volition vie with Steph Curry and Peyton Manning successful the 3rd installment of the Match to beryllium held connected Friday, November 27.   (Christian Petersen/Getty Images for The Match)

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This volition beryllium the 3rd clip "The Match" volition not diagnostic nonrecreational golfers, on with past year's mentation with Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce against Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, and successful 2022, erstwhile Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers teamed up to look Mahomes and Josh Allen.

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