*** PGA - Accenture Match Play Championship Preview ***
Dates: Wednesday, January 3rd through Sunday, January 7th
Site: Metropolitan Golf Club, S. Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia
Course Architect: J.B. MacKenzie (1908), Alister MacKenzie (1926),
Dick Wilson (1960)
Par: 72
Yardage: 7,066
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 4 416 Yds 10 - Par 4 394 Yds
2 - Par 3 151 Yds 11 - Par 3 197 Yds
3 - Par 4 423 Yds 12 - Par 5 521 Yds
4 - Par 5 516 Yds 13 - Par 4 467 Yds
5 - Par 4 418 Yds 14 - Par 4 349 Yds
6 - Par 5 512 Yds 15 - Par 4 430 Yds
7 - Par 3 220 Yds 16 - Par 4 474 Yds
8 - Par 5 521 Yds 17 - Par 4 457 Yds
9 - Par 3 168 Yds 18 - Par 4 432 Yds
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36 3,345 Yds 36 3,721 Yds
Annual: 3rd
2000 Champion: Darren Clarke
Runner-up: Tiger Woods
Shortest Match: Sergio Garcia def. Loren Roberts, 7 & 6, 2000
Longest Match: Jeff Maggert def. Andrew Magee, 1-up (38 holes, 1999)
Thomas Bjorn def. Colin Montgomerie, 1-up (23 holes, 2000)
Total Purse: $5,000,000
Shares: 1st Place - $1,000,000; 2nd Place - 500,000; 3rd Place - 400,000
4th Place - 300,000; Quarterfinalist - 150,000
2000 Finish
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Championship - Darren Clarke def. Tiger Woods, 4 & 3
Third Place - David Duval def. Davis Love III, 5 & 4
Semifinals - Darren Clarke def. David Duval, 4 & 2
Tiger Woods def. Davis Love III, 5 & 4
Quarterfinals - Darren Clarke def. Hal Sutton, 1-up
Tiger Woods def. Paul Lawrie, 1-up
David Duval def. Scott Hoch, 5 & 4
Davis Love III def. Miguel Angel Jimenez, 3 & 2
Past World Match Play Winners and Runners-Up
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2000 -- (19) Darren Clarke def. (1) Tiger Woods, 4 & 3
1999 -- (24) Jeff Maggert def. (50) Andrew Magee, 1-up (38 holes)
Note: Seeds in parenthesis
Players in the Field (Seed in parenthesis)
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Robert Allenby (15) Dudley Hart (18) Steve Pate (37)
Stuart Appleby (14) Tim Herron (34) Dennis Paulson (25)
Michael Campbell (5) John Huston (8) Chris Perry (13)
Greg Chalmers (61) Toshi Izawa (28) Kenny Perry (51)
Stewart Cink (6) Per-Ulrik Johannson (46) Phillip Price (24)
Jose Coceres (20) Jonathan Kaye (52) Jarmo Sandelin - WD
Andrew Coltart (41) Skip Kendall (47) Nobuhito Sato (50)
Glen Day (53) Bernhard Langer (33) Tom Scherrer (54)
Chris DiMarco (38) Franklin Langham (31) Vijay Singh (3)
Scott Dunlap (43) Paul Lawrie (27) Patrik Sjoland (58)
Ernie Els (1) Tom Lehman (4) Jeff Sluman (36)
Bob Estes (35) Justin Leonard (7) Craig Stadler (57)
Brad Faxon (45) Steve Lowery (48) Steve Stricker (55)
Steve Flesch (19) Shigeki Maruyama (22) Kevin Sutherland (62)
Pierre Fulke (21) Bob May (11) Hal Sutton (2)
Fred Funk (44) Mark McNulty (59) Hidemichi Tanaka (32)
Jim Furyk - WD Paul McGinley (39) Toru Taniguchi (30)
Brent Geiberger (42) Hirofumi Miyase (56) David Toms (9)
Retief Goosen (17) Gary Orr (26) Kirk Triplett (12)
Mathias Gronberg (60) Joe Ozaki (29) Jean Van de Velde (49)
Padraig Harrington (10) Craig Parry (40) Scott Verplank (23)
Nick O'Hern (63) Greg Kraft (64) Duffy Waldorf (16)
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