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Hunter Mahan delivered Rory McIlroy a humbling 2 & 1 WGC – Accenture Match Play defeat and in the process the American finally made ammends for being the player labelled as losing the 2010 Ryder Cup. Mahan captured his second WGC title in defeating the current World No. 2 ranked McIlroy to collect the $US 1.2m first prize cheque. In contrast, McIlroy remains at No. 2 in the world as he needed to defeat Mahan to go to No. 1 for the first time in his career. Unfortunately, McIlroy’s ...

For the past 16 months Hunter Mahan has had to live with the tag as ‘the player who lost the 2010 Ryder Cup’. But the American is on target to shrug off that Celtic Manor hoodoo after setting up the chance to win through to the final of the WGC  – Accenture Match Play Championship. Mahan put himself into the last four in the $US 8.5m event courtesy of victories against Zach Johnson (19th hole), Y E Yang (5 & 3), fellow Ryder Cup colleagues Steve Sticker (4 & 3) ahead of ...

Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood are headed for WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship semi-final showdown with the possible reward the World No. 1 crown. McIlroy won his third straight match in this year’s $US 8.5m event when he defeated Spain’s wily Miguel Angel Jimenez 3 & 1 on the Dove Mountain course. The reigning U.S. Open champion was never behind at any stage of his encounter winning the second hole with a par to go 1up and then move 2up and then 3up with birdies at the ...

Rory McIlroy is now well on track to move to No. 1 in the world after defeating Denmark’s Anders Hansen to advance to the third round of the WGC – Accenture Match Play Championship. McIlroy faced a tough struggle in his match against the former BMW PGA Champion. Hansen took it right to the reigning U.S. Open champion trading blows and going 1up at the third hole with a par before McIlroy doubled the fifth that got Hansen back to all square. McIlroy bounced back to win the seventh and ...

Scotland’s Paul Lawrie was 22 years of age and had been a professional for three yearS when Japan’s Ryo Ishikawa was born. In contrast, Ishikawa was only nine years old when Lawrie captured the 1999 Open Championship at Carnoustie. There is a 23-year age gap between Lawrie and Ishikawa but that will count for nothing when the duo face each other in the second round of the $US 8.5m WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship. Lawrie made ammends for an eight-year absence by ...

Former PGA Champion, Y E Yang has sent Graeme McDowell home early for a second year running after handing the former U.S. Open winner a 2 & 1 defeat on the opening day of the WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship. The McDowell/Yang match was the first one out in this year’s championship and it was also the first finalised with McDowell already planning his way back to Florida long before fellow Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy had even teed up. McDowell was level pegging with the ...

There’s a very big added incentive awaiting Rory McIlroy when he tees-up in this week’s WGC – Accenture Match-Play Championship and that’s the World No. 1 ranking. McIlroy can move to No. 1 in the world in capturing the $US 8.5m event and current World No. 1 and defending champion Luke Donald does not progress to the third round. It will be the first occasion in his relatively short professional careeer McIlroy enters a tournament knowing he can become the game’s No. ...