WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
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The WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship is one of the annual World Golf Championships for male professional golfers. It is a knockout event and is staged in January or February each year.
From its inauguration in 1999 through 2006 it was hosted every year by La Costa Resort and Spa in California, in the United States except in 2001, when it was hosted by the Metropolitan Golf Club in Victoria, Australia.
In 2007 the event moved to The Gallery Golf Club in Marana, Arizona for at least four years. All three of the individual World Golf Championships events will be played in the United States from 2007, which has attracted criticism from some golfers, including Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, and in the media outside the United States. PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem has responded by insisting that playing in the U.S is best for golf as more money can be made there than elsewhere. [1]
The Championship is a straight knock-out match play event. The field consists of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Rankings, seeded according to the rankings. The prize money for 2007 is $8.00 million (total purse), with the winner taking $1.35 million (both figures US Dollars) and the Walter Hagen Cup. Prize money is official on both the PGA Tour and the European Tour. All matches leading up to the final match are 18 holes, while the final match is 36 holes. In addition, the losers of the semifinal matches play an 18-hole match for third place.
[edit] Champions
| Year | Player | Country | Runner-Up | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship | ||||
| 2007 | Henrik Stenson |  Sweden |
Geoff Ogilvy | 2 & 1 |
| 2006 | Geoff Ogilvy |  Australia |
Davis Love III | 3 & 2 |
| 2005 | David Toms |  United States |
Chris DiMarco | 6 & 5 |
| 2004 | Tiger Woods | United States |
Davis Love III | 3 & 2 |
| 2003 | Tiger Woods | United States |
David Toms | 2 & 1 |
| 2002 | Kevin Sutherland | United States |
Scott McCarron | 1 up |
| 2001 | Steve Stricker | United States |
Pierre Fulke | 2 & 1 |
| WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship | ||||
| 2000 | Darren Clarke |  Northern Ireland |
Tiger Woods | 4 & 3 |
| 1999 | Jeff Maggert | United States |
Andrew Magee | 38 holes |
[edit] 2007 Official Prize Money Breakdown
| Place | USD | EURO ($1.313701 = Euro 1) |
|---|---|---|
| Champion | 1,350,000 | 1,027,631.16 |
| Runner-Up | 800,000 | 608,966.61 |
| Third Place | 575,000 | 437,694.75 |
| Fourth Place | 475,000 | 361,573.93 |
| Losing Quarter Finalists x 4 | 260,000 | 197,914.15 |
| Losing Third Round x 8 | 130,000 | 98,957.07 |
| Losing Second Round x 16 | 90,000 | 68,508.74 |
| Losing First Round x 32 | 40,000 | 30,448.33 |
| Total | $8,000,000 | €6,089,666 |
[edit] External Links
- Official site
- This Week on the European PGA Tour - The Tour's weekly newsletter. Editions presented in downloadable PDF file format.
- February 19th 2007 edition - 2007 Prize Money Info is on page 2.
