2008 WGC-CA Championship explained

2008 WGC-CA Championship
Dates:	March 20–23, 2008
Location:	Doral, Florida, U.S.
Course:	Doral Golf Resort & Spa
Tour:	PGA Tour European Tour
Par:	72
Yardage:	7,266
Field:	79 players
Cut:	None
Purse:	$8,000,000
Winners Share:	$1,350,000
Score:	271 (−17)
Previous:	2007
Next:	2009

The 2008 WGC-CA Championship was a golf tournament that was contested from March 20–23 at Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Doral, Florida. It was the ninth WGC-CA Championship tournament, and the second of three World Golf Championships events held in 2008.

Geoff Ogilvy won the tournament to capture his second World Golf Championships title.^[1] Tiger Woods was the 3-time defending champion but finished in 5th place.

Field

1. Top 50 players from the Official World Golf Rankings two weeks prior to event
Robert Allenby (2,3), Stephen Ames (2), Stuart Appleby (2), Woody Austin (2,3), Aaron Baddeley (2,3), Ángel Cabrera (2,6), Mark Calcavecchia (2,3), Paul Casey (2,6), K. J. Choi (2,3,4,5), Stewart Cink (2,3,4,5), Tim Clark (2,3), Luke Donald (2), Ernie Els (2,3,6,7), Niclas Fasth (2,6), Jim Furyk (2,3), Sergio García (2,3,6), Retief Goosen (2,6), Richard Green, Søren Hansen (2,6), Charles Howell III (2,3), Trevor Immelman (2), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (2,7,8), Zach Johnson (2,3), Robert Karlsson (2), Martin Kaymer (2,7,8), Justin Leonard (2,4,5), Hunter Mahan (2,3), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4,5), Arron Oberholser (2), Geoff Ogilvy (2,3), Sean O'Hair (2,5), Nick O'Hern (2), Ian Poulter (2), Andrés Romero (2,6), Justin Rose (2,3,6), Rory Sabbatini (2,3), Adam Scott (2,3,7,8), Vijay Singh (2,3,5,7,8), Brandt Snedeker (2,3), Henrik Stenson (2,6,7,8), Richard Sterne (2,6), Steve Stricker (2,3,4,5), Toru Taniguchi (2,10), Scott Verplank (2,3), Boo Weekley (2,3), Mike Weir (2), Lee Westwood (2,6,7,8), Brett Wetterich (3), Tiger Woods (2,3,4,5)

• Pádraig Harrington (2,3,6) did not play.

2. Top 50 players from the Official World Golf Rankings one week prior to event
Nick Dougherty (6), Shingo Katayama (10)

3. Top 30 from the final 2007 PGA Tour FedEx Cup points list
Jonathan Byrd, John Rollins, Heath Slocum, Camilo Villegas

4. Top 10 from the PGA Tour FedEx Cup points list two weeks prior to event
Daniel Chopra, J. B. Holmes (5), Ryuji Imada (5), D. J. Trahan

5. Top 10 from the PGA Tour FedEx Cup points list one week prior to event

6. Top 20 from the final 2007 European Tour Order of Merit
Anders Hansen, Peter Hanson, Grégory Havret, Søren Kjeldsen, Colin Montgomerie, Graeme Storm

7. Top 10 from the European Tour Order of Merit two weeks prior to event
Mark Brown (8), Shiv Chawrasia, Ross Fisher (8)

8. Top 10 from the European Tour Order of Merit one week prior to event
Graeme McDowell, Jeev Milkha Singh

9. Top 3 from the final 2007 Asian Tour Order of Merit
Anton Haig, Liang Wenchong, Chapchai Nirat

10. Top 3 from the final 2007 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit
Brendan Jones

11. Top 3 from the final 2007 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit
Craig Parry, Paul Sheehan

• David Smail did not play.

12. Top 3 from the final 2007 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit
James Kingston, Andrew McLardy, Louis Oosthuizen

Round summaries

First round

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	65	−7
	Geoff Ogilvy
3	Stewart Cink	align=center	66	−6
T4	Anders Hansen	67	−5
	Phil Mickelson
	Nick O'Hern
	Adam Scott
	Tiger Woods
T9	Mark Calcavecchia	68	−4
	Luke Donald
	Ross Fisher
	Grégory Havret
	Ryuji Imada
	Robert Karlsson
	Martin Kaymer
	Andrés Romero
	Jeev Milkha Singh
	Toru Taniguchi

Second round

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Geoff Ogilvy	align=center	65-67=132	−12
2	Tiger Woods	align=center	67-66=133	−11
3	Adam Scott	align=center	67-68=135	−9
T4	Anders Hansen	67-71=138	−6
	Robert Karlsson	align=center		68-70=138
	Jeev Milkha Singh	align=center		68-70=138
T7	Mark Calcavecchia	align=center	68-71=139	−5
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	align=center	65-74=139
	Steve Stricker	align=center	71-68=139
T10	Woody Austin	align=center	70-70=140	−4
	K. J. Choi	align=center	70-70=140
	Stewart Cink	align=center	66-74=140
	Tim Clark	align=center	71-69=140
	Luke Donald	align=center	68-72=140
	Jim Furyk	align=center	69-71=140
	Retief Goosen	align=center	71-69=140
	Søren Kjeldsen	align=center	69-71=140
	Chapchai Nirat	align=center	70-70=140
	Andrés Romero	align=center	68-72=140

Third round

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Geoff Ogilvy	align=center	65-67-68=200	−16
T2	Jim Furyk	align=center	69-71-64=204	−12
	Retief Goosen	71-69-64=204
	Adam Scott	67-68-69=204
	Vijay Singh	73-68-63=204
	Graeme Storm	71-70-63=204
T7	Anders Hansen	align=center	67-71-67=205	−11
	Tiger Woods	align=center	67-66-72=205
9	Tim Clark	align=center	71-69-66=206	−10
10	K. J. Choi	align=center	70-70-67=207	−9

Final round

Place	Player	Score	To par	Winnings ($)
1	Geoff Ogilvy	65-67-68-71=271	−17	1,350,000
T2		69-71-64-68=272	−16	530,000
		71-69-64-68=272
		73-68-63-68=272
5		67-66-72-68=273	−15	285,000
T6		67-75-67-66=275	−13	198,333
		71-70-63-71=275
		71-68-73-63=275
T9		69-72-67-68=276	−12	147,500
		67-68-69-72=276

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	5	4	4	3	4	4	4	5	3	5	4	5	3	4	3	4	4	4
Ogilvy	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−18	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17
Furyk	−13	−12	−11	−11	−12	−13	−14	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−14	−15	−15	−16	−16
Goosen	−13	−13	−12	−13	−13	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−15	−15	−16	−16	−16
Singh	−12	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−14	−15	−16	−16	−16	−15	−14	−14	−15	−16	−16
Woods	−12	−13	−12	−11	−11	−12	−12	−13	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−14	−14	−15	−15
O'Hern	−8	−7	−8	−8	−8	−9	−10	−10	−10	−11	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13
Storm	−12	−13	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13
Stricker	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−7	−8	−9	−10	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13
Scott	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14	−13	−13	−12	−12	−12	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Eagle -->

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey -->

Source:^[2]

External links

• Full results

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Ogilvy ends Woods winning streak . March 24, 2008 . BBC Sport . June 28, 2009.
2. News: World Golf Championships-CA Championship . ESPN . 31 August 2018.