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PGA Tour Article
This week's PGA Tour main scheduled event is part of the World Golf
Championships series and therefore incorporates the European Tour and the other four main
tours on the international golf circuit. You can read about this week's other PGA Tour
event, the Chrysler Classic of Tucson, on the page normally reserved for the European Tour
Article. We apologize for any confusion this may cause.
WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
Tiger's first win of
2004
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A look of satisfaction as Woods holes the winning putt. Photo -
Getty images
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World number one, Tiger Woods, increased his lead in the
official world golf rankings and leapt 15 places to third in this year's money list on
Sunday, when he beat Davis Love III 3&2 in the final of the WGC-Accenture Match Play
Championship. But it wasn't all plain sailing. The final, played over 36 holes was a match
of two halves. Woods never took the lead during the morning round and started the second
18 one hole down. It wasn't until the 7th hole in the afternoon, 25th of the final, that
he began to take control. |
| After Woods birdied 25 and 26, Love found the rough and
bogeyed the 27th, going 3 down, a position from which he was never to recover. Tiger's
touch on the greens was solid whereas his opponent could not seem to sink anything that
was more than a couple of feet away. All the greens had been mowed during the interval
between the two rounds and Love never got the measure of them after that. |
Congratulations from Davis Love III
Photo - Getty Images
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Darren Clarke. Photo - Getty Images
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Playing ahead of the finalists in the afternoon, Darren
Clarke and Stephen Leaney played out the battle for third and fourth places. There was
plenty to play for as the winner would earn $100,000 more in prize money and gain extra
world ranking points. After Leaney dominated the front nine, Clarke came with a late run
to win on the 18th hole, 2 up. The $530,000 he earned took Clarke to the top of the Volvo
Order of Merit having only participated in two events on the European Tour so far this
year. |
| Australian, Stephen Leaney, is playing his first year on
the PGA Tour. His $430,000 winnings pushed his total so far in 2004 to over the half a
million and he now looks certain to keep his card for 2005. Before losing to Tiger Woods
in the semi-final, Leaney managed to put both Mike Weir and Colin Montgomerie out of the
competition in the same day. Torrential rain on Thursday meant that the second and third
rounds both had to be played on Friday to get the tournament back on schedule. |
Stephen Leaney. Photo - Getty Images
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