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• Geoff Ogilvy won his 10th consecutive match at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, handily beating Paul Casey (5 and 4) to advance to the semifinals for the second straight year. Ogilvy and Tiger Woods (2003-2004) are the only golfers to make the semis in consecutive years in this event.

• Trevor Immelman advanced to the semifinals today with a big win over Justin Rose, 5 and 4, while Geoff Ogilvy beat Paul Casey by the same score. That ties the record for the largest margin of victory in a quarterfinal match. Two other golfers won by that same margin: David Duval over Scott Hoch in 2000 and Tiger Woods over Hoch in 2003.

• Trevor Immelman is the third golfer from South Africa to advance to the semifinals in this event, joining Ernie Els (2001) and Retief Goosen (2005). Australia has had five representatives in the final four: Ogilvy (2006, 2007), Stephen Leaney (2004), Peter Lonard (2003) and Adam Scott (2003). Only the USA (22) has advanced more golfers to the semis.

• Of the 32 previous semi-finalists in the eight years of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, only one was a #3 bracket seed (overall seed #9, 10, 11 or 12). This year, three of the four winners of the quarterfinal matchups were #3 seeds in their bracket: Henrik Stenson in the Bobby Jones bracket, Geoff Ogilvy in the Sam Snead bracket and Trevor Immelman in the Ben Hogan bracket. The previous #3 seed to make the semis was Darren Clarke in 2004.

The only other time three of the same seeds from the four brackets made the semifinals was in 2000, when three of the four #1 seeds made it: Tiger Woods, David Duval and Davis Love III.

• In the Gary Player bracket quarterfinal, #9 Chad Campbell took on #10 Stephen Ames, guaranteeing that one of the two would make the semifinals. Entering this year, no golfer placed in one of those two seeds in a bracket had advanced past the quarterfinals. With Chad Campbell winning, only the #10 bracket seed has never seen a player get past the quarterfinals.

• Sweden's Henrik Stenson, Australia's Geoff Ogilvy, South Africa's Trevor Immelman and the USA's Chad Campbell comprise this year's Final Four. It's the second time that each of the four semifinalists were from a different country. In 2001 it was Ernie Els (South Africa), Pierre Fulke (Sweden), Toru Taniguchi (Japan) and Steve Stricker (USA).