Match Play tale of the tape: Tiger Woods vs. Brendan Jones

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Feb. 23, 2009

Tiger Woods, golf's No. 1 player, has been out of action for about eight months and will make his comeback against Australia's Brendan Jones in the first round of the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship on Wednesday at The Ritz Carlton Golf Club outside Tucson, Ariz. (Match time is 2:02 p.m ET). How do they compare?

Woods vs. Jones
Woods
Category
Jones
33 Age 33
United States Country Australia
No. 1 Official World Golf Ranking No. 64
No. 1 Ranking at start of 2009 No. 53
65 PGA TOUR wins 0
14 Major wins 0
15 World Golf Championships wins 0
0 Nationwide Tour wins 1
2 Japan Golf Tour wins 8
9 Accenture Match Play appearances 1
3 (2003, 2004, 2008) Accenture Match Play wins 0
31-6 Accenture Match Play record 0-1
Won
(beat Stewart Cink 8 and 7 in final)		 '08 Accenture Match Play finish T33
(loss to Adam Scott)
0 TOUR events played in '09 to date 0
6 on PGA TOUR 2008 starts 15 on Japan Golf Tour
Four wins (Buick Invitational, WGC-Accenture Match Play, Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard, U.S. Open) Best results in '08 Tied for second (UBS Japan Golf Tour Championships Shishido Hills, Golf Nippon Series JT Cup)
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