Second-round notebook: Accenture Match Play

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• Seven out of the 16 remaining players are advancing to the third round for the first time at the Accenture Match Play Championship: Camilo Villegas; Oliver Wilson; Peter Hanson; Tim Clark; Sean O'Hair; Ross Fisher; Rory McIlroy -- the most in tournament history. Since 2000, the previous most "first-timers" to make it to the third round was six of 16, in 2001.

• Updated all-time Accenture Match Play Championship Records for 16 remaining players:

• With Tiger Woods (No. 1) and Vijay Singh (No. 4) losing today; and Sergio Garcia (No. 2) and Padraig Harrington (No. 3) losing yesterday, Phil Mickelson (No. 5) is the highest-ranked seed to survive. This marks the first time in tournament history that all four top seeds have failed to make it to the third round.

Breakdown of 2009 field of 64 players

• To start the first round:
International players: 47
United States players: 17
Countries represented: 19 (ties the most in tournament history -- 2006)
Largest international contingent: Australia and South Africa, 8 each

• After the second round:
International players: 11 of the 19 players won their second-round match
United States players: 5 of the 13 players won their second-round match
Countries represented: 7 of the 19 still in the field
Largest international contingent following the second round: 5, England

• Winners of the 16 second-round matches by country (Number of players initially in the field in parentheses):
Colombia (1) - Camilo Villegas
Northern Ireland (2) - Rory McIlroy
Sweden (3) - Peter Hanson
England (7) - Oliver Wilson, Paul Casey, Luke Donald, Ross Fisher, Ian Poulter
Australia (8) - Geoff Ogilvy
South Africa (8) - Ernie Els, Tim Clark
United States (17) - Stewart Cink, Phil Mickelson, Justin Leonard, Jim Furyk, Sean O'Hair

• With only five upsets today, this marks the fewest in the second round in tournament history.

First-time Participants

• Of the 12 first-time participants at the 2009 Accenture Match Play Championship, six won their first-round matches. Today, three of those six survived. One match had first-time participants going head to head -- Anthony Kim (who defeated fellow first-timer Lin Wen-Tang 7&5 in the first round) against Oliver Wilson, who defeated him 2 and 1.

• No one (other than Jeff Maggert in the first event in 1999) has won the Accenture Match Play Championship in their first start.

• First-time participants who played other first-timers
England's Oliver Wilson (No. 43) defeated USA's Anthony Kim, (No. 11), 2 and 1

• Other first-time participants winners
England's Ross Fisher (No. 35) defeated USA's Pat Perez (No. 35), 6 and 5
Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy, (No. 16) defeated USA's Hunter Mahan (No. 48), 1 up

• Other first-time participant losers
Australia's Mathew Goggin (No. 55) lost to England's Paul Casey (No. 23), 6 and 4
South Africa's Charl Schwartzel (No. 62) lost to England's Ian Poulter (No. 31), 1 down

• Three matches went extra holes during Thursday's second-round matches:
Stewart Cink defeated Lee Westwood, 23 holes (Cink went 19 holes in round one)
Geoff Ogilvy defeated Shingo Katayama, 19 holes (Ogilvy went 19 holes in round one)
Luke Donald defeated Vijay Singh, 19 holes

• The lowest-ranked player to survive the second round was Peter Hanson (No. 58), who defeated Stephen Ames (No. 39), 2 and 1. The lowest-ranked player to win the Accenture Match Play Championship:
No. 62, Kevin Sutherland, 2002
No. 55, Steve Stricker, 2001
No. 52, Geoff Ogilvy, 2006

All-time wins:

Tim Clark
A victory today over No. 1 seed Tiger Woods was certainly not expected from Tim Clark, judging by his record in previous Accenture Match Play Championships. Clark entered the 2009 event with a 1-5 record. His previous five defeats came to players ranked 26, 37, 39, 1 (Tiger Woods in 2007) and 31.

Clark is the highest-ranked player in PGA TOUR career earnings without a PGA TOUR win: ranked 66th with $12,073,366.

Tiger Woods
With his loss on Thursday, Tiger Woods' career Accenture Match Play Championship record is now 32-7. Of the seven opponents Woods has lost to, Tim Clark is the second-lowest ranked at No. 32. Woods lost to No. 64-ranked Peter O'Malley in 2002.

Camilo Villegas
After getting ousted by K.J. Choi in the first round last year, Camilo Villegas has shown his match-play mettle. He defeated Rod Pampling in the first round, 7 and 6, and today took down Miguel A. Jimenez, 5 and 4 -- meaning Villegas has played only 26 holes so far this week.

Phil Mickelson
Tomorrow marks Phil Mickelson's first appearance in the third round since 2006. He is hoping to advance to the quarterfinals for only the second time in 10 starts at the Accenture Match Play Championship (2004, lost in QF to Davis Love III, 1-down). Mickelson, winner of last week's Northern Trust Open, is looking to become the first player to win the Accenture Match Play Championship the week after winning a PGA TOUR event.

Stewart Cink
Stewart Cink advanced to the third round for the fifth time in 10 starts and the second year in a row, but it took extra holes both Wednesday and Thursday to get there. Cink defeated Richard Sterne in round one after 19 holes, and then took 23 holes to defeat Lee Westwood in round two. With 42 holes played, Cink sets a record for most holes played in the first two rounds (the record for the most holes played on consecutive days is 43 - set by Chad Campbell in 2005 when he defeated Miguel A. Jimenez after 24 holes in round two and lost to Retief Goosen after 19 holes in round three).

Geoff Ogilvy
Australia's Geoff Ogilvy continues his stellar play at the Accenture Match Play Championship. Now with a 12-2 record, Ogilvy has the highest winning percentage (85.7 percent) of any player in the event history with more than 10 wins on his resume. Second is Tiger Woods (32-7, 82.05 percent), followed by David Toms (23-8, 74.2 percent).

Ogilvy went extra holes in round one, two, three and in the quarterfinals en route to his victory in 2006.

Ernie Els
With a 3 and 2 win over Steve Stricker today, Ernie Els advances to the third round of the Accenture Match Play Championship for the first (and only other) time since 2001. Els has been ousted in the first round in his previous four starts here (2008, 2007, 2006, 2003).

English players
Six of the seven English players in the field made it past the first round, and five were also successful in round two: Oliver Wilson, Paul Casey, Ross Fisher, Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter.

The largest margin of victory on Thursday was 6 and 5, recorded by Ross Fisher over Pat Perez. Fellow Englishman Paul Casey defeated Mathew Goggin 6 and 4.

Presidents Cup
The second-round matches featured two potential match-ups for the upcoming Presidents Cup. The Internationals won both:
• South Africa's Ernie Els defeated USA's Steve Stricker, 3 and 2
• South Africa's Tim Clark defeated USA's Tiger Woods, 4 and 2