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Matt Kuchar is the 2013 WGC – Accenture Match-Play champion after defeating defending champion and fellow American Hunter Mahan 2 & 1 in the final at Dove Mountain in Arizona. It was Kuchar’s fourth appearance in the event and victory comes after the former PGA Tour No. 1 was third in 2011 and among the last eighth last year. Victory also will lift the current World No. 24 ranked Kuchar to inside the top-10 and a likely 8th in the world when the World Rankings are adjusted. Kuchar, ...

PGA Tour Commissioner, Tim Finchem declared the Tour is not ‘at war’ with golf’s ruling bodies in disagreeing with the proposed  anchoring ban of the belly or long-handled putters. While Americans Matt Kuchar and defending champion, Hunter Mahan were out fighting for the WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship, Finchem met with the media present at Dove Mountain to reveal the PGA Tour’s Players Advisory Committee ha had discussed the issue. “We (PGA Tour) did ...

PGA Tour Commissioner, Tim Finchem has promised a resoultion ‘soon’ on the ‘Deer Antler Spray’ controversy that enguled the golf world last month. Triple Major winning, Vijay Singh is facing a lengthy ban from the Tour are admitting to using deer antler spray with components of the spray banned on all of the world’s golf tours. However in Singh’s defence he pleaded he was not aware the spray contained banned substances. Many players, including fellow Masters champion ...

Photographs of players and caddies having snowball fights earlier this week is ‘good news’ for the future of the WGC – Accentue Match-Play Championship being staged at the Dove Mountain course in Arizona. That’s the view of PGA Tour Commissioner, Tim Finchem when asked today (Sun) whether the fact play was halted on Wednesday due to a snow storm could force officials to move the event to a new location. Snow began falling near lunch on Wednesday forcing an abandonment to play ...

Australia’s Jason Day has ended Graeme McDowell’s run to muscle his way into the final four of the WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship. Day, 25 won a see-saw struggle against the European Ryder Cup star 1up on the final green. The Australian is competing in the event for a third straight year but it’s the first time Day has made the final four. McDowell had won the first hole and went 2up at the third but Day bounched back winning the 4th, 7th and 11th holes to go 1up ...

Fellow Irishman Graeme McDowell ended Shane Lowry’s dream run handing the current Portugal Masters champion a 3 & 2 third round defeat in the WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship. Lowry secured his place in the event by just 0.0002 of a World Ranking point and then delivered the first big upset of the $US 8.75m event in defeating current World No. 1 Rory McIlroy. Lowry then bundled out Sweden’s Carl Petersson to set up an all-Irish third round showdown with McDowell. Lowry ...

Germany’s Martin Kaymer became the fourth World No. 1 competing this week in Arizona to be knocked out of the WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship. Kaymer joined World No.1s Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods and Lee Westwood who were bundled out in the opening round of the $US 8.75m tournament. Kaymer found himself comprehensively beaten 5 & 4 by defending champion, Hunter Mahan. Their match was  a battle of two players who have a wealth of match play experience — and each were ...