Davis Love III wins with eagle on 18th - Accenture Match Play Championship 2006

Davis Love III spectacularly holed out with a pitching wedge to eagle the last and beat Padraig Harrington one up in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship quarter-finals on Saturday.

Love struck his wedge from 112 yards to join fellow Americans Tom Lehman and Zach Johnson, plus Australia's Geoff Ogilvy, in the final four at the opening World Golf Championships (WGC) event of the year.

"I visualised it going up real close, where I had a tap-in," world number 28 Love told reporters. "I didn't expect to make it. I was fortunate to win that one."

Johnson became the first player to reach the semi-finals at La Costa Resort and Spa with a surprise 3&2 victory over Retief Goosen while Ogilvy sank a 20-foot birdie putt on the 19th hole to edge out Britain's David Howell.

Chad Campbell, who ended Tiger Woods's run in the tournament the previous day, led U.S. Ryder Cup captain Lehman by two after nine holes before losing a tight battle in the top match at the 21st hole.

Love, beaten by Woods 3&2 in the 2004 final at La Costa, took early control against Harrington, leading by two after five holes before the Irishman reeled off three consecutive birdies to reduce the deficit to one.

The experienced American struck a superb approach to within four feet of the flag at the ninth, however, to regain his two-hole cushion.

Harrington, who had struggled with his swing all week, pulled one back with a six-footer for birdie on 15 and drew level when Love bogeyed the 17th.

"It's actually not a tough way to lose, it's a good way to lose if you're going to lose," Harrington said of Love's dramatic finish.

"I was expecting Davis to get up and down on the last and I'd have to hole mine out to go to 19. I was prepared for that, but maybe not prepared for him holing out."

Ogilvy birdied the last to draw level with Ryder Cup player Howell in the second match after fog delayed the scheduled start of play by 15 minutes.

Howell had trailed by one after bogeying the par-four fourth, where he found thick rough to the left off the tee, but squared the match when he reached the green in two at the par-five 11th.

The Englishman, who knocked out Phil Mickelson in the third round, went ahead for the first time by rolling in a 16-footer for birdie at the par-three 16th.

Johnson, world-ranked 60th, booked his place in the last four with a regulation par at the short 16th where world number three Goosen missed the green to the right and failed to get up and down.

The bottom match was a roller-coaster with twice U.S. Open champion Goosen forging two clear after holing birdie putts from 10 and 15 feet at the first two holes.

Johnson picked up three shots over the next four holes to edge ahead and, despite slipping back with a bogey at the par-four seventh, produced error-free golf for the rest of the tie to tighten his grip.

"Zach putted very well today and that's how I lost," said Goosen, the only player among the tournament's top 10 seeds to reach the quarter-finals.

"I tried and tried and hit a lot of good putts but nothing went in."

In the first match, Campbell took charge early against Lehman with birdies at the third and seventh.

Both players struggled after the turn, though, before they matched each other with lengthy birdie putts at the last to take the tie into extra time, Campbell holing from 26 feet and Lehman from 19.

"We played poorly, both of us, and just made so many mistakes," Lehman said. "When I had to hit some good shots, I did and luckily I got the win."