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The feud continues: Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka will square off in the next 'Match'

Tim Schmitt
Golfweek

During a resounding American victory at the Ryder Cup, Bryson DeChambeau hinted there was more coming between him and Brooks Koepka, but didn't let on to what that might be.

Now we know.

The fifth edition of The Match, the made-for-TV series presented by Turner Sports, will take place the day after Thanksgiving and will set new buddies Koepka and DeChambeau in a mano a mano competition in Las Vegas.

According to a release sent out on Tuesday, the event will take place at the Wynn Golf Club, which sits just a few big swings from the strip. The pair will face off in a 12-hole showdown with the usual cast of Turner characters - Ernie Johnson and Charles Barkley - handling the telecast. TNT's presentation will be simulcast on TBS, truTV and HLN, as well. Live coverage will start at 4 p.m. ET.

This brings the event full-circle - the initial Match pitted Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in Las Vegas back in 2018 at Shadow Creek.

Bryson DeChambeau, left, and Brooks Koepka attend the opening ceremony for the 43rd Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits.

DeChambeau made his Match debut pairing with Aaron Rodgers in July, when the tandem topped Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady.

Meanwhile, this will be Koepka's first Match appearance as a competitor, although through his foundation he donated $100,000 to COVID-19 relief efforts during Capital One's The Match: Champions for Charity in May 2020 in connection with a memorable front-nine birdie from Brady.

As for the course, Steve Wynn purchased the resort in 2000, and the Tom Fazio-designed Wynn Golf Club opened in 2005. But that layout was shuttered in 2017 as the operators of the adjacent Wynn Las Vegas hotel and casino considered other uses for the ridiculously valuable land on which the course sits, and the resort lost millions of dollars in revenue from green fees and other golf-attributable casino earnings.

After scrapping plans to build a lagoon on the site with new hotel rooms and restaurants, Fazio and his son, Logan, were called to breathe fresh life into the abandoned track. Wynn Golf Club reopened in October of 2019 with eight new and 10 refurbished holes, playing to a par of 70 at 6,722 yards.

"I think the emotion for the Wynn Golf Club is, it is a very distinct, unique, one-of-a-kind place," Tom Fazio said. The hotels and casinos and general Las Vegas buzz are "part of the experience. So I think the Wynn Golf Club … is something that maybe can't be reproduced."

The layout ranked ninth in Golfweek's Best list of casino courses in 2017 before its closure.

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