Kavarna, Bulgaria: Britain's Graeme McDowell and South African Branden Grace set up a mouth-watering showdown in the semi-finals of the World Match Play Championship by winning on Saturday.
World number eight McDowell, the highest-ranked player in the field, avenged his defeat in last year's final by easing past holder Nicolas Colsaerts of Belgium 2 & 1.
Colsaerts was already trailing when his drive at the 10th hole found a hazard after flying over an on-course toilet.
To adhere to the rules he had to first drop his ball on the toilet floor before he was eventually given 'relief' from the immovable obstruction and he spared his blushes by pitching the ball on to the green and holing out from 15 feet for a par four....
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09:22 AM, May 19, 2013
Kavarna, Bulgaria: Ian Poulter was eliminated from the World Match Play Championship after losing another round-robin match on Friday. Poulter lost to Thomas Aiken, 1 up, at the Thracian Cliffs course when he bogeyed the last hole after missing the fairway. "I have no excuses," Poulter said. "There is no excuse for that display of golf over the last two days. It's disgusting, disgraceful and there's no explanation. I should...
12:23 PM, May 18, 2013
Matt Kuchar derailed Hunter Mahan's bid to win back-to-back titles at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. ...
11:00 AM, Feb 25, 2013
Mahan outlasted U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson in 18 holes, leaving him two wins away from joining Tiger Woods. ...
10:03 AM, Feb 24, 2013
Making his first appearance in the elite World Golf Championships (WGC) event, Piercy will next meet 2001 champion Steve Stricker. ...
08:31 AM, Feb 23, 2013
Shane Lowry of Ireland made a 4-foot par putt on the 18th ole to eliminate Rory McIlroy in the opening round. ...
09:25 AM, Feb 22, 2013
Dove Mountain looked more like a winter wonderland than a golfing venue after driving snow forced play to be abandoned in the opening round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship on Wednesday. ...
08:54 AM, Feb 21, 2013
Possible snow showers forecast for Wednesday's first round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship could be a good omen for Luke Donald, who says he would embrace such conditions in Arizona's high desert. ...
09:23 AM, Feb 20, 2013
Marana: Hunter Mahan stopped Rory McIlroy's march to No. 1 by winning the Match Play Championship on Sunday. Mahan won four holes in a five-hole stretch starting with a 9-iron to 2 feet on the sixth hole, building a 4-up lead through 10 holes. Even as McIlroy threw his best stuff at him on the back nine, Mahan responded with two clutch birdies to stay in control. Mahan won, 2...
09:10 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Marana, Arizona: Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood set up a mouth-watering duel in the last-four of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship when they each completed comfortable victories in Saturday's quarter-finals. Northern Ireland's world number two McIlroy never trailed before beating South Korean Bae Sang-moon 3&2, while third-ranked Westwood won 4&2 against fellow Briton Martin Laird at Dove Mountain's Ritz-Carlton Golf Club. Either McIlroy or Westwood can depose Luke Donald as...
10:33 AM, Feb 26, 2012
Marana, Arizona: Rory McIlroy and Lee Westwood moved closer to the Match Play Championship title, and the No.1 ranking that would come with it, by winning their matches Friday and reaching the quarterfinals. Westwood, who has led 48 of the 49 holes he has played this week, got a small measure of revenge against Nick Watney and advanced to the quarterfinals with a 3-and-2 victory on Friday at Dove Mountain....
09:40 AM, Feb 25, 2012
Marana, Arizona: Tiger Woods tumbled out of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship on Thursday after fellow Americans Hunter Mahan and Dustin Johnson had eased into the third round with commanding victories. Mahan became the first player to advance, crushing South Korean Yang Yong-eun 5&3, and Johnson followed with a 7&5 demolition of Italy's Francesco Molinari at Dove Mountain's Ritz-Carlton Golf Club. Three-time champion Woods, however, went out in the second...
12:19 PM, Feb 24, 2012
Arizona: Tiger Woods had to play a left-handed shot out of the desert. Retief Goosen holed out from 156 yards and didn't even win the hole. Dustin Johnson twice won a hole after taking a penalty drop. But the strangest sight of all Wednesday at the Match Play Championship didn't come from the golf course. It was Luke Donald on his way to the airport. "Golf is like that sometimes,"...
11:30 AM, Feb 23, 2012
Marana: The Match Play Championship ended with what must have felt like a strange sensation for England's Luke Donald. He was posing on Sunday with a trophy on American soil. Donald spoiled Germany's Martin Kaymer's rise to No. 1 in the world by winning with a performance so dominant he never played the 18th hole all week. On a bizarre final day in the high desert, which began with snow...
06:01 PM, Mar 02, 2011
Jeev's short game, however, stood him in good stead and Kuchar could not bridge that gap. ...
11:49 AM, Feb 19, 2010
Picking a better play format is debate raging on the Indian golf circuit. ...
10:36 AM, Apr 02, 2009
Woods surrendered an early one-hole advantage and lost on the 16th green. ...
10:10 PM, Feb 27, 2009
Harrington, winner of three of the last six majors, lost by a hole to Pat Perez. ...
08:07 PM, Feb 26, 2009
US Ryder Cup team mates Woods and Furyk suffered defeats in the first round of the World Match Play Championship. ...
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