| Players |
Score |
Bracket |
| STEWART CINK, USA def. PHIL MICKELSON, USA |
1 up |
Hogan |
| It wasn't pretty down the stretch, but Cink hung on to beat Mickelson in a battle of veteran American Ryder Cuppers. After taking a 1 up lead when Mickelson conceded the 15th hole, Cink bogeyed the next two holes. But that second bogey came while Mickelson was double-bogeying the 17th, giving Cink the lead again going into the 18th, which both players parred. "It was a case of who doesn't want to win this match or who does," Cink said. "And we took a long time to figure that one out." Cink started off hot with consecutive birdies at Nos. 2-4, putting him 3 up. But Mickelson battled back, and the match was finally squared when Cink bogeyed the 12th. "I don't know what to say because I hit it better today than I did the first two matches," Mickelson said, "but I didn't get the ball in the hole as well." Next match for Cink: Ernie Els |
| RORY McILROY, Northern Ireland def. TIM CLARK, South Africa |
4 and 3 |
Jones |
| The 19-year-old McIlroy continues to impress in the desert, downing Tiger-beater Clark. McIlroy was virtually flawless on Friday, with five birdies and no bogeys in the 15 holes of the match. He was 4 up through six and never allowed Clark to make any kind of a rally. In his last 23 holes at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, McIlroy is a bogey-free 9 under. "I think I've always been quite a good ball-striker and it's good for match play," McIlroy said. "You give yourself lots of chances and a lot of opportunities to win the holes. And I've been able to do that this week." For Clark, it was a deflating loss after his second-round high of upsetting Tiger Woods. "I just felt a little bit flat," Clark said. "Rory played really well. He's obviously a tremendous talent and I was very impressed with his game." Next match for McIlroy: Geoff Ogilvy |
| ROSS FISHER, England def. JIM FURYK, USA |
5 and 4 |
Snead |
| Fisher, a two-time winner on the European Tour, continued his somewhat surprising roll in his Accenture Match Play Championship debut. The 28-year-old Brit applied the pressure from the outset and Furyk won only two holes all day. Fisher, meanwhile, made seven birdies and just one bogey in the decisive win that saw him make the turn 3 up. Furyk's two wins came at the two back-nine par 5s, each time to narrow the gap to 2 down. But Fisher closed out the match out with two 5-footers for birdie at Nos. 14 and 15. "My game's been in really, really good shape this week," Fisher said. "I feel like the course suits me very, very well. I just knew I had to come out and play some solid golf." Next match for Fisher: Justin Leonard |
| JUSTIN LEONARD, USA def. OLIVER WILSON, England |
19 holes |
Snead |
| Neither player won a hole in this tight match until No. 9 when Leonard missed a 2-footer for par to give Wilson the 1-up edge. The Texan made enough clutch putts coming home, though, to beat the Englishman on the first extra hole. The two combined for nine birdies on the back nine. "That's not real easy to do on this golf course," Leonard said -- in perhaps the most entertaining tilt of the day. Still, Leonard never led until the 17th hole when his final birdie put him 1 up. Wilson sent the match to extra holes with a 5-foot birdie putt on the 18th but Leonard got the win with a par on the 19th. "There was some really good golf played on the back nine today," said Leonard, who is 7-2 in his last nine matches at this event. Next match for Leonard: Ross Fisher |
| ERNIES ELS, South Africa def. LUKE DONALD, England |
2 up |
Hogan |
| Els reached the quarterfinals for only the second time in nine appearances at the Accenture Match Play Championship by beating Donald. The Englishman, 1 down at the time, conceded the 18th hole to Els after tweaking his left wrist, the same one that had required surgery in August. Donald said he felt his wrist twinge on his 17th tee shot, and it also affected him on his next shot out of the bunker. "So rather than risk it, I wanted to play it safe and concede the match to Ernie," Donald said. Added Els: "He obviously couldn't swing the club properly." Els won the second hole with a birdie and never trailed. He was 3 up at the turn, although Donald twice cut the deficit to 1 down on the back nine before having to retire. Els gave himself some breathing room with an eagle at the 13th hole to go 2 up but promptly gave that back when he bogeyed the next hole. The only other time Els has reached the weekend of the match play event was in 2001 at the Metropolitan Golf Club outside Melbourne, Australia and he went on to finish fourth. "Maybe I got a golf course that I can play," Els said. Next match for Els: Stewart Cink |
| GEOFF OGILVY, Australia def. CAMILO VILLEGAS, Colombia |
2 and 1 |
Jones |
| Villegas had rolled through his first two matches, beating Rod Pampling in 12 holes in the first round and Miguel Angel Jimenez in 14 holes in the second round. But against Ogilvy, he encountered a much tougher opponent who has plenty of Accenture Match Play success, and the Aussie took command after a Villegas bogey at the third hole squared the match. From there, Ogilvy won the next hole with a birdie, went 2 up with a par at the sixth, then went 3 up with a birdie at the eighth. But when Ogilvy carded his first bogey of the day at the 14th and Villegas birdied the 15th, the match suddenly tightened. But Villegas couldn't ride the momentum, bogeying the 16th and 17th as Ogilvy, 2006 Accenture Match Play winner, closed out the match. "I play quite well," Ogilvy said. "Felt quite in control of it all. ... A bit loose on 14 and 15 there, but all in all, really happy because he's obviously playing well at the moment." Next match for Ogilvy: Rory McIlroy |
| SEAN O'HAIR, USA def. IAN POULTER, England |
2 and 1 |
Player |
| Poulter has been on a match-play roll ever since his impressive performance at Valhalla in last year's Ryder Cup. But O'Hair overcame a poor start to defeat the Englishman and advance to the quarterfinals in just his second Accenture Match Play start. O'Hair bogeyed two of the first three holes and was 2 down until a birdie at the sixth got him back on track. Another birdie at the eighth squared the match, then birdies at holes 12, 13 and 15 put him 3 up. He gave one back with a bogey at the 16th, but by then Poulter was running out of holes. Next match for O'Hair: Paul Casey |
| PAUL CASEY, England def. PETER HANSON, Sweden |
4 and 2 |
Player |
| Through the first 11 holes Friday, Casey was a bogey-free 4 under, allowing him to go 5 up on Hanson, who bogeyed two of his first three holes. Hanson didn't get back on track until the 13th when he began a string of three straight birdies, but any miracle rally was cut short when he bogeyed the 16th to lose the hole and the match. "That was really good golf today," Casey said. "I want to say I'm just very, very happy with that. It seems to be getting better as the week has progressed. ... Made quite a few birdies, even popped in an eagle and didn't really make any mistakes." Next match for Casey: Sean O'Hair |
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