Woods survives, Donald doesn’t at Match Play (AP)
MARANA, Ariz. (AP)—Luke Donald has become only the third No. 1 seed to
lose in the opening round of the Match Play Championship.
Ernie Els built an early lead and never let go in a 5-and-4 victory over the
top-ranked player in the world.
A year after Donald never trailed in any of the six matches he won to
capture the title, he never led against Els. He joins Tiger Woods in 2002 and
Steve Stricker in 2010 as the only top seeds to fail to get out of the opening
round.
Woods barely made it through at Dove Mountain.
He trailed Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano by one hole until winning the 15th and
16th, then holed an 8-foot par putt on the 18th hole to avoid going into extra
holes.
Golf-WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship first round results (Reuters)
(updates)
Feb 22 (Reuters) – Results from the first round of the WGC-Accenture
Match Play Championship at Dove Mountain’s Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Marana,
Arizona on Wednesday (U.S. unless stated)
Results:
Bobby Jones bracket
Dustin Johnson beat Jim Furyk 20th hole
Francesco Molinari (Italy) beat Thomas Bjorn (Denmark) 20th hole
Ben Hogan bracket
Steve Stricker beat Kevin Na 2&1
Yang Yong-eun (South Korea) beat Graeme McDowell (Britain) 2&1
Hunter Mahan beat Zach Johnson 19th hole
Sam Snead bracket
Ryo Ishikawa (Japan) beat Bill Haas 1up
Paul Lawrie (Britain) beat Justin Rose (Britain) 1up
Gary Player bracket
Charl Schwartzel (South Africa) beat Gary Woodland 4&2
Bae Sang-moon (South Korea) beat Ian Poulter (Britain) 4&3
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Matches:
Bobby Jones bracket
Luke Donald (Britain) v Ernie Els (South Africa)
Jason Dufner v Peter Hanson (Sweden)
K.J. Choi (South Korea) v Kyle Stanley
Brandt Snedeker v Retief Goosen (South Africa)
Adam Scott (Australia) v Robert Rock (Britain)
Bo Van Pelt v Mark Wilson
Gary Player bracket
Rory McIlroy (Britain) v George Coetzee (South Africa)
Kim Kyung-tae (South Korea) v Anders Hansen (Denmark)
Sergio Garcia (Spain) v Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain)
Keegan Bradley v Geoff Ogilvy (Australia)
Jason Day (Australia) v Rafael Cabrera-Bello (Spain)
Simon Dyson (Britain) v John Senden (Australia)
Ben Hogan bracket
Martin Kaymer (Germany) v Greg Chalmers (Australia)
David Toms v Rickie Fowler
Matt Kuchar v Jonathan Byrd
Bubba Watson v Ben Crane
Louis Oosthuizen (South Africa) v Aaron Baddeley (Australia)
Sam Snead bracket
Lee Westwood (Britain) v Nicolas Colsaerts (Belgium)
Robert Karlsson (Sweden) v Fredrik Jacobson (Sweden)
Nick Watney v Darren Clarke (Britain)
Tiger Woods v Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spain)
Webb Simpson v Matteo Manassero (Italy)
Alvaro Quiros (Spain) v Martin Laird (Britain)
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Tour Report: Round 1: Updates, news, notes (PGATOUR.com)
MARANA, Ariz. – Wednesday’s first round of the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship has started. A total of 32 matches are scheduled for the Ritz-Carlton course at Dove Mountain. We’ll have updates all day on PGATOUR.COM and we encourage your comments throughout the day. And be sure to check out PGATOUR.COM’s LIVE@ coverage starting at 12:30 p.m. ET
FIRST-ROUND UPDATES (all times ET)
11:05 a.m. – Another ball – Gary Woodland’s, this time — found the water at the third hole. Charl Schwartzel, who chipped in for eagle to win the second hole, is now 2 up.
10:55 a.m. – Jim Furyk has taken a 3-up lead over Dustin Johnson with a par at the fourth hole. About 15 minutes earlier Johnson conceded the third hole to Furyk after putting his tee shot at the par 3 into the pond on front of the green.
10:42 a.m. – Thomas Bjorn two-putts from 19 feet at the par-5 second hole to square his match with Francesco Molinari.
10:30 a.m. – Dustin Johnson drops opening hole to Jim Furyk after three-putting from 43 feet.
10: 15 a.m. – Zach Johnson rolls in 30-foot eagle putt at par-5 second. He’s 2-up on Hunter Mahan through three holes.
9:40 a.m. – In the opening match of the day, Y.E. Yang has quickly taken the lead against Graeme McDowell, who lost the first hole with a bogey. These two met a year ago in a third-round match in which Yang beat McDowell 3 and 2. By the way, the weather is crisp, cool and cloudless – a perfect day for golf.
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World No. 1 Tseng eyes first Singapore victory (AP)
SINGAPORE (AP)—Yani Tseng of Taiwan, the No. 1 player in the world, will seek
to win one of the few big tournaments she hasn’t yet conquered in her young
career when she tees off at this week’s $1.4 million HSBC Women’s Champions.
The 23-year-old Tseng dominated women’s golf last year and is off to a hot
start in 2012 with her victory at last week’s LPGA Thailand.
But a win in Singapore has eluded her since the tournament began in 2008,
and she faces a field of 63 golfers featuring 18 of the 20 top-ranked when play
starts Thursday at the par-72 Tanah Merah Country Club.
“Every year I have come closer and closer to winning this tournament,”
Tseng said Wednesday. “All the best players are playing here this week and the
golf course is really challenging so I can’t wait to go out there.”
Tseng solidified her hold at No. 1 with seven 2011 LPGA Tour victories last
year, including major victories in the LPGA Championship and Women’s British
Open. She had 12 worldwide victories last season and the five-time major
champion has 33 career worldwide professional wins.
“Winning five majors at the age of 23 is very impressive,” world No. 3
Suzann Pettersen said. “She makes us even work harder.”
Australia’s Karrie Webb, who won last year’s tournament, compared Tseng to
some of the greatest players in women’s golf history.
“I’ve played my career with Annika (Sorenstam), Se Ri Pak and Lorena
(Ochoa) and now Yani,” said the 37-year-old Webb, who has 38 career LPGA Tour
victories. “I’ve played with the best.”
American star Michelle Wie, ranked 18th in the world, said after she
graduates from Stanford University next month she should have more time to focus
on golf.
“I’m on track to graduate this March, so it’s going to be interesting,”
Wie said. “It’s going to be the first time in my golfing career that I won’t
have school, or school work to do.”
Tour Report: Faldo, Miller: Doubt creeps in for Tiger (PGATOUR.com)
The longer Tiger Woods goes without winning a PGA TOUR event — something he hasn’t done since 2009 — the more self-doubt might creep into his game, at least according to Nick Faldo.
“His incredible record in the past, leading after 54 holes and converting was ridiculous,” Faldo said via conference call Tuesday. “But now we have seen about four times when he’s been right there, good enough to get into contention but not good enough to finish it off. I think that’s when you discover all of those little things that you can’t really put your finger on, what it takes to finish it off.
“The bottom line is trust, or self‑belief, self‑confidence in your ability. We have seen a few swings and a few putts that ‑‑ we watch Tiger scratch his head.”
Johnny Miller doesn’t think Woods needs to learn how to win again, but the longer he goes without winning, Miller says, the tougher it will get.
“Even starting with the Masters last year, that great charge on Sunday, it looked like he was going to do it and just sort of fizzed out,” Miller said. “The more of those that he has, the more scar tissue you get, and the tougher it is to make those putts.
”He did win at Sherwood, but I don’t know if that totally convinced him that that was a real win. He needs to do it on TOUR with a PGA TOUR win.”
Woods will have his chance this week at a tournament he’s won three times before.
Brandel Chamblee, however, sees a different Woods at age 36.
“People are not intimidated by Tiger Woods anymore,” Chamblee said. “He doesn’t hit it as far, he doesn’t hit it as high and he doesn’t hit it as straight and he’s missing a lot of little putts, and late in a golf tournament, which makes him beatable and makes him human and makes him less intimidating.
“When you put all of that together, that is an intangible that Tiger Woods carried like the best shield and the fastest arrow. He beat everybody, because of all of those reasons. But one of them was that he intimidated the devil out of people, and so they are giving him their best shot.”
Woods will have a chance to turn that around beginning Wednesday when he faces Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano in the opening round.
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A return trip to America for George Coetzee (AP)
MARANA, Ariz. (AP)—George Coetzee of South Africa, the last one into the
64-man field at the Match Play Championship, is making his American debut at
Dove Mountain—at least as a professional.
The last time Coetzee competed in the United States was in 2005, when he
played for the University of San Diego under head coach Tim Mickelson, the
brother of four-time major champion Phil Mickelson. He only stayed four months.
“And there’s a good reason why it only lasted four months,” he said.
Coetzee said he got off to a good start, making the traveling squad for the
Toreros, but his game started to slip.
“San Diego is a pretty nice place to be,” he said. “The weather is pretty
good, and there’s a lot of other good things you can do other than play golf.
There was no one else to blame but myself. After four months, I couldn’t break
80. And I think it took me another three months to break par.”
He returned home and played in the South African Open. Because he had won
the South African Amateur the year before, he was put in the same group with
Retief Goosen and Tim Clark.
“I shot 88 … and I putted like a champion,” Coetzee said. “So I had to
kind of make a decision—either play golf or go back and take my studies pretty
seriously. It’s kind of a no-brainer for me. I love my sport way too much.”
Coetzee had to go through Q-school twice on the European Tour. He made a
small breakthrough last year when he tied for 26th on the money list, mainly
from his runner-up finish in the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles.
He was two shots out of the lead going into the weekend at the British Open
and tied for 15th.
His opponent in the first round will be Rory McIlroy, the second-ranked
player in the world. Even though Coetzee was the last player to get a spot—
after Paul Casey withdrew with a shoulder injury—the seeds were based on the
ranking that came out a week after the cutoff, and he moved one spot past Ernie
Els.
If not for the Match Play, Coetzee would be in South Africa defending his
title in the Telkom PGA Championship in South Africa. He’s not complaining.
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KEEGAN’S EXPECTORATIONS: Keegan Bradley watched a replay of the Northern
Trust Open, where he holed a 12-foot birdie putt on the final hole to get into a
playoff with Phil Mickelson and Bill Haas, who eventually won on the second
extra hole.
It wasn’t the clutch putt that stood out. It was the spitting.
It’s a nervous habit Bradley didn’t realize he had, expectorating before
just about every shot, sometimes more than once. It turned into quite a spat on
Twitter, particularly from Europeans, and Bradley later tweeted an apology when
he saw all the comments.
“I was very surprised to see the replay of the telecast to see how much I
was spitting. To be honest with you, I really had no idea I was doing it. And I
feel bad,” Bradley said. “It’s something that I’m going to work on and I just
ask everybody to just kind of bear with me as I go through this, because it’s
something I’ve done without even knowing it.
“In a way, I’m glad it happened,” he said. “But it’s something that I’m
going to try very hard to stop.”
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UP FOR GRABS: Martin Kaymer went to No. 1 in the world last year by reaching
the final of the Match Play Championship. This year, two players have a chance
to take over No. 1.
Luke Donald has to reach the quarterfinals to assure staying at the top for
the ninth month.
Rory McIlroy is at No. 2. The only way for him to get to No. 1 for the first
time in his career is to win the Match Play, provided that Donald does not make
it beyond the second round.
Lee Westwood is at No. 3, and his odds are slightly better than McIlroy
because he has played fewer tournaments. For Westwood to return to No. 1—his
position a year ago—he would have to win and make sure Donald doesn’t reach
the quarterfinals.
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LPGA IN SINGAPORE: It’s a play on words at the HSBC Women’s Champions event
this week at Singapore, where organizers have referred to the winner as the
“Champion of Champions.”
So far, it has lived up to its name.
In its four-year history, the winners have been Lorena Ochoa, Jiyai Shin and
Ai Miyazato, all of whom had been No. 1 in the women’s world ranking. The
exception is the defending champion, Karrie Webb, who dominated more than any of
the other three before the ranking began. Webb is the only player to win the
LPGA’s “Super Slam” of five majors.
The only players who have been at No. 1 and have not won the HSBC Women’s
Champions are Yani Tseng and Cristie Kerr.
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PRO-AM PREFERENCE: Tiger Woods will play his first pro-am of the year on the
PGA Tour next week in the Honda Classic. And even though he finished 128th on
the money list a year ago, he can count on an early tee time.
The tour used to rely on the money list to decide who gets the first choice
of tee times. As was the case a year ago when he was 68th on the previous year’s
money list, Woods got into some pro-ams as a sponsor’s pick.
In a change this year, the pick of tee times first goes to anyone who is in
the “Life Member” category or in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Life members
must have played 15 years and won at least 20 times. Woods completed his 15th
year in 2011 and has 71 wins.
Others who fall into that category are Phil Mickelson, Davis Love III and
Vijay Singh.
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DIVOTS: The average score at Riviera was 72.6 for the week, not only the
highest on the PGA Tour this year, but the only tournament that the score was
over par. … For the first time in more than two years, Luke Donald made the
cut in a tournament but failed to earn any world ranking points because he
finished too low. … The LPGA Tour made it official last week by saying the
Lotte Championship in Hawaii will be played at Ko Olina Golf Club on April
18-21. The LPGA previously had a tournament at the resort on the west end of
Oahu. … Lee Westwood wanted to lose weight in the offseason, and he found the
easiest way was to cut out alcohol. He’s done well, except when he went to
Buckingham Palace to receive his Order of the British Empire. “You have to have
a couple of glasses of champagne at lunch afterward and the night before,” he
said. “But apart from that, I’m sort of back on being off of it.”
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STAT OF THE WEEK: The last nine players to be No. 1 in the world are playing
PGA Tour events this week—five in the Match Play Championship (Luke Donald,
Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer, Tiger Woods, Ernie Els) and four in the Mayakoba
Golf Classic in Mexico (David Duval, Greg Norman, Tom Lehman, Nick Price).
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FINAL WORD: “For a short hole, when you get out of position, the hardest
shot is just to get back into position.”—Harrison Frazar on the 10th hole at
Riviera.
Golf-Masters win lived up to Schwartzel’s conviction (Reuters)
By Mark Lamport-Stokes
MARANA, Arizona, Feb 21 (Reuters) – Charl Schwartzel
has never had the feeling before or since but somehow he just
knew he was going to win last year’s Masters before teeing off
in the final round.
The slender South African was four strokes off the pace
after 54 holes at Augusta National and went on to clinch his
first major victory by two shots with a scintillating
birdie-birdie-birdie-birdie finish.
“I woke up that morning and I felt like I was going to win,”
Schwartzel told reporters at Dove Mountain’s Ritz-Carlton Golf
Club on Tuesday while preparing for this week’s WGC-Accenture
Match Play Championship.
“I honestly did. I had this complete calmness about it, too.
That was the best part about it. It’s all good to say I’m going
to win today, but if you are all nervous inside then you
actually have doubts.
“I felt so calm and I was so convinced that I could do it.
Obviously I couldn’t have asked for a much better start. That
put me right in there.”
Schwartzel launched his final round with a birdie-par-eagle
run on the way to a six-under-par 66, the lowest score of the
day, as he became the third South African to win the Masters.
“At Augusta, I was playing so consistently but (before the
final round) I never got on a birdie run where you make two or
three birdies in a row to move your score up the board,” said
the 27-year-old, a seven-times champion on the European Tour.
“I felt like I was playing so well and I was in control of
it. You don’t get that feeling very often. I might have had
glimpses of it before but never as much as I had that specific
week.”
Asked whether his status as a major champion could help him
intimidate opponents at this week’s Accenture Match Play
Championship, Schwartzel replied with a smile: “I hope so. Any
intimidation I can put onto my playing partner is good.
“Anyone in this field wants to win those tournaments
(majors) and if a guy achieves that, it puts him in almost a
different category and guys look at him differently. I do think
it plays a bit of a role.”
Schwartzel has been drawn to play big-hitting American Gary
Woodland in Wednesday’s opening round at Dove Mountain but feels
that good putting rather than power driving will be a more
significant factor this week.
“It’s always great to have length especially in this golf
course,” the South African said of the 7,791-yard layout. “It’s
pretty wide open and if you can hit it a long way down, you have
got advantage.
“But these greens are this golf course’s defense. If you hit
in the wrong places, you are going to lose the hole. So I think
there’s a lot more to hitting it far on this golf course.”
(Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes; Editing by Frank Pingue; To
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Tour Report: Watch: Top 10 Accenture matches (PGATOUR.com)
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Tour Report: Tiger’s foe: ‘I think he’s beatable’ (PGATOUR.com)
By Mike McAllister, PGATOUR.COM
MARANA, Ariz. — When Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano found out that his opening-round foe at this week’s World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship was Tiger Woods, the first words out of his mouth were not “Oh, no!” but rather …
“Oh, yes,” the Spaniard said Monday. “It’s a great opportunity.”
While respectful of Woods’ track record as a three-time champion in this event, as well as his stature as a golf legend, Fernandez-Castano nevertheless will enter Wednesday’s match (12:35 p.m. ET) confident that his best will be good enough to beat Woods.
“I think he’s beatable,” Fernandez-Castano said. “Of course, I need to play good. That’s all I can think about and that’s all I’m going to try on Wednesday, just try playing my best game and hope that he doesn’t play his best.”
Fernandez-Castano has five wins on the European Tour, including the 2011 Barclays Singapore Open, the highlight of his comeback after taking more than six months off with a back injury. Ranked 48th in the world, the Spaniard didn’t expect that Tiger would be his first-round foe.
But Woods’ fall in the rankings — he’s a fifth seed this week, his worst seeding in this event, and is ranked 20th in the world — means Fernandez-Castano gets the first crack at the upset.
“I’m the underdog,” he said. “I have nothing to lose. And at the same time, I don’t think he’s at his best. …
“I’ve never played with Tiger before, not even on a stroke-play event. I just want to go out there. For me, it’s a big privilege. If I win, fantastic. If I lose, well, I’ve lost to one of the best players of golf in history.”
By Mike McAllister, PGATOUR.COM
MARANA, Ariz. — Steve Stricker has taken off the last five weeks since leaving Hawaii, where he won the season-opening Hyundai Tournament of Champions. He makes his return to the PGA TOUR this week as a No. 2 seed at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship.
And yes, he’s worried about being rusty.
“It’s in the back of my mind,” he said Monday.
But Stricker, the top-ranked American in the 64-man field this week, also realizes that he’s played some of his best golf after lengthy layoffs. And living in Wisconsin, he’s used to stowing away the clubs for extended lengths of time during the winter. Obviously, the offseason didn’t hurt him at Kapalua.
In the first three weeks of his break, he focused on enjoying time with his family. For the last couple of weeks, he’s ramped up his practice time. He arrived in Arizona last Thursday, giving him even more time to prepare for this week.
The time off also allowed him to manage his health, making sure that the herniated disk in his neck would not become an issue. He underwent physical therapy three times a week and then started a strengthening regimen on his neck area, as well as his left bicep and tricep.
“It seems to be helping,” he said. “It feels a lot better. It feels stronger. So we’ll see going forward.”
For now, he looks at this week as a relaunch to his season. He won this event in 2001 but is “not a huge fan” of the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club course. He has a 1-3 match record in the last three years.
“It’s really busy up by the greens,” Stricker said. “There’s a lot of undulations. There’s a lot to the green complexes. So if you’re off or just off on the side, sometimes it’s very difficult to get it up and down.
“Some of the greens, if the wind direction is a certain way, there’s a par-3 (the sixth) where I can’t even hold it on the green. … So there’s some uniqueness to it.
“But I think overall it’s a good match play course.”
Here are the tee times for Wednesday’s 32 first-round matches at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship. (Note: Times listed are ET, not local).
Which players do you think will advance to the second round?
The bracket for the 2012 World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship was unveiled Monday morning.
Here’s a quick look at the bracket. Stay tuned for more in-depth bracket analysis later today on PGATOUR.COM. (see below)
TOP SEEDS — Luke Donald (Jones), Rory McIlroy (Player), Lee Westwood (Snead) and Martin Kaymer (Hogan) are the top seeds in their respective brackets, due to their status as the top four players in the Official World Golf Ranking. It’s the first time in tournament history that all four top seeds are international players. Last year, Westwood and Kaymer were top seeds, along with Americans Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.
ALL BUT TWO — Of the top 64 players in the world, 62 will be at Dove Mountain this week. Phil Mickelson (No. 9) and Paul Casey (No. 24) are not playing and have been replaced by by Ernie Els and George Coetzee, respectively. Mickelson is not competing due to a scheduled family vacation, while Casey, a runner-up in the event in 2009 and 2010, is still recovering from a shoulder injury and plans to make his season debut at the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship.
WHERE’S TIGER? — Woods is the fifth seed in the Snead division and will play Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano in the first round. This is the first time in his Accenture Match Play career that Woods has not been the top seed in his bracket.
AMERICAN-HEAVY BRACKET — There are 23 Americans in the 64-man field … and 10 of those Americans are in the Hogan bracket, led by No. 2 seed Steve Stricker. Also …
GOLF BOYS-HEAVY BRACKET — The Hogan bracket also has all four Golf Boys in it — No. 5 Bubba Watson, No. 6 Hunter Mahan, No. 9 Rickie Fowler and No. 12 Ben Crane. Watson and Crane will face off in the first round.
GOING YOUNG – There are 24 players under the age of 30, the most in tournament history, bettering the record of 23 previously set in 2010 and 2011. For the second consecutive year, Italy’s Matteo Manassero (No. 61) is the youngest at 18 years, 9 months and 30 days when the field was announced Friday.
INTRIGUING FIRST-ROUND MATCHES – Luke Donald vs. Ernie Els (top overall seed vs. last seed); Keegan Bradley vs. Geoff Ogilvy (Ogilvy, the two-time champ, is a 12th seed!); Dustin Johnson vs. Jim Furyk (power vs. precision).
WAITING WITH INTEREST — With the brackets released, if a player withdraws now, the next player on the alternate list takes his place in the bracket. The next three players in order are: Ryan Moore (United States); Robert Allenby (Australia); and Joost Luiten (Holland), based on their rankings when the qualification was closed last week.
So download the bracket and let us know what you think of the seeds and matchups.
UPDATE (10:30 a.m. ET): Here are the previews of each bracket, with a look at each player in the field