2009 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship explained

2009 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
Dates:February 25 –
March 1, 2009
Location:Marana, Arizona
Course:Ritz-Carlton Golf Club
at Dove Mountain
Tour:PGA Tour
European Tour
Par:72
Field:64 players
Purse:$8,500,000
Winners Share:$1,400,000
Champion: Geoff Ogilvy
Score:def. Paul Casey 4 & 3
Previous:2008
Next:2010

The 2009 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship was a golf tournament that was played from February 25 to March 1, 2009, at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana, Arizona. It was the eleventh WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship and the first of four World Golf Championships held in 2009.

The tournament marked the return of Tiger Woods to the PGA Tour, following eight months out of the sport after undergoing knee surgery shortly after his victory in the 2008 U.S. Open.

Geoff Ogilvy continued his success at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship defeating Paul Casey, who had not trailed in any of his first five matches, 4 and 3 in the final. It was Ogilvy's second win in the event, in which reached the final for the third time in four years. The victory also improved his already impressive match record in the event to 17 wins and 2 losses.

Brackets

The Championship was a single elimination match play event. The field consisted of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Rankings as of the February 16 ranking,[1] seeded according to the rankings.[2] All of the top 64 players in the February 16 ranking participated in the event, the first time in the tournament's history that had happened.[3]

Final Four

Prize money breakdown

Place US ($)
Champion 1,400,000
Runner-up 850,000
Third place 600,000
Fourth place490,000
Losing quarter-finalists x 4 270,000
Losing third round x 8 140,000
Losing second round x 16 95,000
Losing first round x 32 45,000
Total $8,500,000

External links

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Notes and References

  1. The field and seedings were not adjusted to account for the February 23 ranking.
  2. http://dps.endavadigital.net/owgr/doc/content/archive/2009/owgr07f2009.pdf Official World Golf Ranking - February 15, 2009
  3. Web site: Win or lose, NBC expects to show Tiger Woods . 2009-02-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090228044906/http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,1881582,00.html . 2009-02-28 . dead . mdy-all.
  4. http://dps.twiihosting.net/pga/doc/content/doc_528_785.pdf European Tour weekly