Jason Day Topples Graeme McDowell To Make Arizona Match Play Final Four.
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 ...
Graeme McDowell Ends Shane Lowry’s Dream Match-Play Run.
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 ...
Martin Kaymer Becomes Fourth World No. 1 To Be Bundled Out Of Match-Play.
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 ...
Scott Piercy Pulverises Luke Donald With A 7 & 6 Thrashing.
American Scott Piercy handed out the biggest defeat so far in this year’s WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship when he pulverised England’s Luke Donald 7 & 6 to advance to the third round of the $US 8.75m event.
Donald, who started his match with a sloppy double bogey, is the fourth World No. 1, either past or present, to be thrown out of the event after Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods and Lee Westwood failed to make it past the first round in Arizona.
The 34-year old Las Vegas ...
Belgium Bomber Nicolas Colsaerts First Into Final 16 After Stunning Success Over Justin Rose.
Belgium’s golfing bomber, Nicolas Colsaerts is the first player through to the last 16 after a stunning 4 & 2 victory over Ryder Cup colleague, Justin Rose in the second round of the WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship.
The reigning Volvo Match-Play champion is on target to become the first golfer ever to hold both Match-Play titles with crushing demolition of the current World No. 6 ranked Rose.
Colsaerts, who is competing in the Arizona event for a first occasion, may have lost ...
Rory McIlroy Confident Of Getting Timing Right In Time For Honda Classic Defence.
A year ago the then World No. 2 ranked Rory McIlroy arrived at the Honda Classic, and three days after losing out in the final of the WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship, declaring: “It was a very positive week for me.”
Four days later the Northern Irishman held off Tiger Woods, who had posted a last day 62, to capture the title and in also moving to World No. 1 McIlroy, remarked: “It was great to get the job done today.”
A key to McIlroy’s third PGA Tour ...
WGC – Cadillac Championship To Remain At Trump Doral To 2023.
The WGC – Cadillac Championship Twill be staged at the Trump International course at Doral up to and including 2023.
The International Federation of PGA Tours indicated today (Frid) it has agreed to an extension of the event that has staged on the Florida course since 2007.
(Comment – I know it’s all about available sponsorship but so much for the events being labelled World Championships and taking them around the world!)
The PGA Tour reports it has been hosting events at Doral ...
