Accenture Match Play report for the championship match
Mar. 1, 2009
Here's a quick look at Sunday's final match between Geoff Ogilvy and Paul Casey at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship. Click here for the updated bracket.
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| Final match report |
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| GEOFF OGILVY, Australia, def. Paul Casey, England |
4 and 3 |
| Paul Casey had not trailed in his first five matches at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship. Of course, he had not played Geoff Ogilvy yet. The Aussie has been nothing short of stellar in this mano-y-mano format and Sunday was no exception. Ogilvy took immediate command when he took a page out of Casey's book and won the first hole with a birdie. He was 2 up after a par at the sixth and birdies at Nos. 8 and 9 sent him to the back nine of the morning session with a comfortable 4-up lead. Casey holed a 6-iron for eagle at the par-4 10th hole, though, and appeared poised to win the 11th, too, after Ogilvy's second shot lodged in a cholla cactus and he had to take a drop. The Aussie missed the green with his fourth shot, but chipped in for par and won the hole when Casey missed a 15-foot putt to halve. The Englishman finally gained a little momentum when he won the 18th hole of the morning match with a par -- after having to make birdie to halve the previous two. But Ogilvy just had too many weapons. He again won the first hole in the afternoon session, then the seventh with a birdie, eighth with an eagle and ninth with a par to build a 6-up advantage from which Casey couldn't recover. "Geoff was exceptional today," Casey said. "This afternoon, three birdies I think in the first eight holes and I still lost two holes. I threw a lot of things at him and he didn't flinch. It was very, very impressive. I got outplayed today." Ogilvy, who won the Accenture Match Play Championship for the second time in four years, was pleased by the caliber of players he defeated along the way to the title. "The thing I'll remember is I beat some really good players and I beat the world because I played really, really well the last three or four days," he said. "Also how well I played on the weekend, I played better and better during the week. Every round I played better, which doesn't often happen with golf. So it's a really nice progression like that." Ogilvy, who has now won three World Golf Championships events, captured the season-opening Mercedes-Benz Championship in wire-to-wire fashion and now owns the lead in the FedExCup. |
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