With his win Sunday at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship, Hunter Mahan:
● Earns fourth PGA TOUR victory in 237th career start
at the age of 29 years, 9 months and 9 days.
● Collects 550 FedExCup points.
● Extends fully-exempt status through the end of the
2015 season.
● PGA TOUR Career Victories (4): 2007 Travelers
Championship; 2010 Waste Management Phoenix Open; WGC-Bridgestone
Invitational; 2012 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
● Four career wins are the second most by players
currently in their 20s. Here’s the list of players with three
or more wins: Dustin Johnson (5), Hunter Mahan (4), Bill Haas (4),
Sean O’Hair (4), Camilo Villegas (3) and Anthony Kim (3).
WGC-ACCENTURE MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES:
● Mahan and Rory McIlroy (22) meeting in the finals
marked the first time in Accenture Match Play Championship history
that two 20-somethings met in the finals.
● Is the first American to advance to the finals of the
Accenture Match Play Championship since Tiger Woods and Stewart
Cink faced each other in 2008.
● Improves Accenture Match Play Championship record to
10-4 in five career starts (2008-2012). His previous best finish at
this event was T9 (2011).
● Joins Tiger Woods (Accenture Match Play Championship
– 2003, 2004; Cadillac – 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005;
Bridgestone – 1999, 2000, 2001, 2005) as the only players to
capture multiple World Golf Championships titles in their 20s.
● Two of four wins on TOUR have come in Arizona (2010
Waste Management Phoenix Open).
● Joins a group of five other players with Multiple
World Golf Championships victories: Tiger Woods (16), Geoff Ogilvy
(3), Darren Clarke (2), Ernie Els (2), Phil Mickelson (2)