Rory McIlroy handed tough draw in San Fran

Top seed and four-time major winner Rory McIlroy has been handed a tough draw for the new-look WGC-Cadillac Match Play Championship in San Francisco after being grouped with Billy Horschel, Brandt Snedeker and Jason Dufner. 

It is a group stacked with winners, as Horschel was the 2014 FedEx Cup Champion, Snedeker won the Fed Ex Cup in 2012, and Dufner won the 2013 PGA Championship.

Under the tournament’s new format, the current top 16 in the world rankings were each placed in a different group, and the remaining three players were drawn from pools depending on their current rankings. There will be round-robin matches between the four players in the group between tomorrow and Friday, with the winners advancing to face off in a World Cup-style format.