World Golf Match Play Championship

23rd February to 26th February 2012

World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship
Ritz-Carlton GC, Dove Mountain, Marana, Arizona
Purse: $8,500,000
$1,400,000 Fedex Cup Points 550

Results 2012

Semi-finals

Hunter Mahan bt Mark Wilson 2&1
Rory McIlroy (NIrl) bt Lee Westwood (Eng) 3&1

Third-place play-off match

Wilson bt Westwood 1 up

Final

Mahan bt McIlroy 2&1

Results 2011

Semi Final                                                   Final                                                                       Winner

Donal 6and5 v Kuchar                   Donald v Kaymer               Luke Donald defeated new world number one Martin Kaymer 3&2       

Kaymer v Watson

The WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship is one of the annual World Golf Championships for professional golfers. It is a knockout event and is staged in January or February each year. It is sponsored by and named after Accenture, a consulting firm.

From its inauguration in 1999 through 2006 it was hosted every year by La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California, except in 2001, when it was hosted by the Metropolitan Golf Club in Victoria, Australia.

In 2007 the event moved to The Gallery Golf Club in Marana, Arizona, a suburb northwest of Tucson, for two years. All three of the individual World Golf Championships events will be played in the United States from 2007, which has attracted criticism from some golfers, including Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, and in the media outside the United States. PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem has responded by insisting that playing in the U.S. is best for golf as more money can be made there than elsewhere.

For 2009, the tournament moved to the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, a Jack Nicklaus-designed course at Dove Mountain in Marana.

Previous Winners

WinnersYear Player Country Runner-up Score 1st Prize ($) Purse ($)
WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
2010 Ian Poulter England Paul Casey 4 & 2 1,400,000 8,500,000
2009 Geoff Ogilvy (2) Australia Paul Casey 4 & 3 1,400,000 8,500,000
2008 Tiger Woods (3) United States Stewart Cink 8 & 7 1,350,000 8,000,000
2007 Henrik Stenson Sweden Geoff Ogilvy 2 & 1 1,350,000 8,000,000
2006 Geoff Ogilvy Australia Davis Love III 3 & 2 1,300,000 7,500,000
2005 David Toms United States Chris DiMarco 6 & 5 1,300,000 7,500,000
2004 Tiger Woods (2) United States Davis Love III 3 & 2 1,200,000 7,000,000
2003 Tiger Woods United States David Toms 2 & 1 1,050,000 6,000,000
2002 Kevin Sutherland United States Scott McCarron 1 up 1,000,000 5,500,000
2001 Steve Stricker United States Pierre Fulke 2 & 1 1,000,000 5,000,000
WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship
2000 Darren Clarke Northern Ireland Tiger Woods 4 & 3 1,000,000 5,000,000
1999 Jeff Maggert United States Andrew Magee 38 holes 1,000,000 5,000,000

The Championship is a single-elimination match play event. The field consists of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Rankings, seeded according to the rankings. The prize money for 2009 was $8.5 million, with the winner taking $1.4 million (both figures U.S. dollars) and the Walter Hagen Cup. Prize money is official on the PGA Tour, the European Tour and the Japan Golf Tour. All matches leading up to the final match are 18 holes, while the final match was played over 36 holes from 1999 to 2010 and over 18 holes since 2011. In addition, the losers of the semifinal matches play an 18-hole consolation match for third place. The five-day, six-match tournament begins on Wednesday, with a match per day through Friday. The quarterfinals and semifinals are played on Saturday; the finals and third-place match conclude the tournament on Sunday.

It is the successor event of the Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf, a 32-man, unofficial money, match play event played from 1995-98.