By Jeremy Harness

SAN FRANCISCO – Rory McIlroy said after Friday’s round that he is not giving away any holes. But he ended up throwing away some good money Saturday night.

His quarterfinal match with Paul Casey went into extra holes, and he had a clear advantage at the 20th hole when Casey drove it way right behind a tree. Casey could not get up and down, and when McIlroy missed a six-footer to win it, play was suspended at 8:03pm PST with the match remaining all square.

The two will resume play again at 6:45am PST Sunday morning.

This wouldn’t normally be a big issue, but that McIlroy had planned to be ringside for the mega-fight between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas later that night, which, due to this prolonged match, he was unable to make it, meaning that he was unable to occupy a seat that cost him about $10,000.

“(The match) was good; it was back and forth,” McIlroy said. “I made a couple key up-and-downs when I needed to coming down the stretch. (But I) had a couple of opportunities to close it out, (and I) couldn’t quite convert.

“But we’ll come back tomorrow morning and do it all over again.”

Jim Furyk had a pair of convincing wins on Saturday, as the technician dispatched grip-it-and-rip-it long-hitter J.B Holmes by a 5-and-3 count in the morning and then taking care of Louis Oosthuizen, 4 and 2, in the afternoon quarterfinal round to make it to the semifinal round of this event for the first time.

After Holmes took the first lead of the match at the fourth hole, Furyk

“I think early on in my career, I was probably more worried about every swing and every shot, and everything being perfect and trying to play the perfect round of golf,” Furyk said about his previous approach to match play. “You realize at the end of the day, you make a bad swing and lose the hole, it doesn’t matter if you make 5 or 12, it’s just a hole.

“You move on and play.”

Meanwhile, 60-seed John Senden kept trucking into the semis, rallying to knock off former Hunter Mahan, who won this event three years ago, in the morning round, but his time ran out in the afternoon, as he was blitzed on the front nine and simply could not recover in a 5-and-3 defeat at the hands of Gary Woodland.

Woodland shot out to a five-hole lead on the front nine before Senden could really get on track. The Australian fought back and won holes 10 and 12, but Woodland also won two more holes on the back nine, and Woodland was able to hold him off until Senden ran out of holes.

Danny Willett moved onto the semis with his Saturday afternoon win over Tommy Fleetwood, 4 and 3, in a match that Willett was never really threatened throughout the course of the match, eventually closing out the match after both made par at the 15th.

The best match of the round of 16 was the battle between Oosthuizen – who himself went extra holes to dispatch Bubba Watson, who had beaten him in a playoff to win the 2012 Masters – and Rickie Fowler.

Oosthuizen got out to a three-hole lead after 10 holes, but Fowler battled back by birdieing three of the next four holes to square things up. It remained that way heading into the 18th, and it looked like Fowler would complete the comeback as his tee shot found the fairway while Oosthuizen’s was significantly right of the short grass.

But his miss was acceptable – as he was able to hit a great second shot that found the green in two while Fowler’s second was far right of the green and into foot-high grass. Fowler took two shots to get it in the green, and when his par attempt missed, Oosthuizen was on to the quarterfinals.