Day 5 Notes – WGC - Accenture Match Play Championship
With the $800,000 second-place check, Cink has now earned $4,316,924 at World Golf Championships events (includes $86,333 won at the World Golf Championships-World Cup). The second-place finish also moves Cink into 10th in all-time career money earned on the PGA TOUR with more than $22 million in his career.
The opening hole of Tiger Woods’ quarterfinals match against K.J. Choi is the last time that Woods trailed in a match. Woods won the second hole of that match and never trailed again versus Choi, Stenson or Cink.
Stewart Cink’s runner-up finish at the Accenture Match Play Championship is his best career finish at this event and his highest finish since losing in a playoff at the 2006 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational. It is Cink’s second top-3 finish of the year. Cink finished T3 at the Buick Invitational.
Henrik Stenson’s third-place finish moves him into the top spot on the European Tour’s Order of Merit.
Tiger Woods improves his record to 31-6 in his ninth year playing this event. Woods is 20-4 against the International players and 11-2 against his fellow Americans. With his victory on Sunday, Tiger Woods has won 23 of his last 26 matches.
Tiger’s 8 and 7 victory is the most lopsided championship victory in the history of the Accenture Match Play Championships
Largest Championship Match Wins –
Year Champion Match
2008 Tiger Woods Defeated Stewart Cink, 8 and 7
2005 David Toms Defeated Chris DiMarco, 6 and 5
2000 Darren Clarke Defeated Tiger Woods, 4 and 3
Tiger Woods improves his championship match record to 3-1
Tiger Woods Championship Match History
Year Champion Match
2000 Darren Clarke Defeated Tiger Woods, 4 and 3
2003 Tiger Woods Defeated David Toms, 2 and 1
2004 Tiger Woods Defeated Davis Love III, 3 and 2
2008 Tiger Woods Defeated Stewart Cink, 8 and 7
Tiger Woods 2008 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship Record –
R1: beat J.B. Holmes, 1 up
R2: beat Arron Oberholser, 3 and 2
R3: beat Aaron Baddeley, 20 holes
QF: beat K.J. Choi, 3 and 2
SF: beat Henrik Stenson, 2 up
Championship: beat Stewart Cink, 8 and 7
Sunday’s finish marks Stenson’s third top-3 finish in World Golf Championships event.
Year Tournament Finish
2007 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship – 1st
2008 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship – 3rd
2005 WGC- CA Championship – T3
*Stenson also has finished T2 and T3 in his two appearances at the World Golf Championships-World Cup team competition.
Countries represented among the final-2:
USA (Woods, Cink)
Countries represented among the final-4:
USA (Woods, Leonard, Cink)
Sweden (Stenson)
Most appearances in the finals
Tiger Woods (4) 2000, 2003, 2004, 2008
Davis Love III (2) 2004, 2006
David Toms (2) 2003, 2005
Geoff Ogilvy (2) 2006, 2007
Most appearances in the semifinals
Tiger Woods (4) 2000, 2003, 2004, 2008
Davis Love III (3) 2000, 2004, 2006
David Toms (2) 2003, 2005
Geoff Ogilvy (2) 2006, 2007
Darren Clarke (2) 2000, 2004
Henrik Stenson (2) 2007, 2008
Updated all-time Accenture Match Play Championship win leaders:
No. Player W-L 2008
1 Tiger Woods 31-6 6-0
2 David Toms 23-8 1-1
3 Davis Love III 18-8
4 Darren Clarke 14-7
5 Adam Scott 13-7 1-1
Stewart Cink 13-9 5-1
Phil Mickelson 13-9 1-1
7 Henrik Stenson 12-2 5-1
Chris DiMarco 12-7
Retief Goosen 12-9 0-1
With his 4th-place finish, Justin Leonard now has four finishes inside the top-10 in 2008, one less than all of 2007. In 2006 Leonard managed two top-10 finishes.
Last year on this week, Justin Leonard was No. 194th in the Official World Golf Ranking. Currently he is 52nd on the OWGR. In the last 12 months he has won the 2007 Valero Texas Open, finished second twice – 2008 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic and 2007 Buick Open and finished in the top-10 nine times.
It is the ninth time in the 10-year history of the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship that there has been an American in the championship match. The only other countries represented in the final match: Sweden (Henrik Stenson, 2007 and Pierre Fulke, 2001), Northern Ireland (Darren Clarke, 2000) and Australia (Geoff Ogilvy, 2006 and 2007).
Americans in the championship match by year:
1999 Jeff Maggert and Andrew Magee
2000 Tiger Woods
2001 Steve Stricker
2002 Kevin Sutherland and Scott McCarron
2003 Tiger Woods and David Toms
2004 Tiger Woods and Davis Love III
2005 David Toms and Chris DiMarco
2006 Davis Love III
2007 NONE
2008 Tiger Woods and Stewart Cink
World Golf Championships – Accenture Match Play Championship FedExCup Points Distribution
Place Points
1 4,725
2 2,835
3 1,785
4 1,260
T5 922
T9 587
T17 262
T33 86
Upsets (yearly, by round):
Year Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 QF SF Final
2008 13 8 2 2 0 0
2007 11 7 3 0 0 0
2006 13 6 7 4 1 1
2005 13 7 4 3 1 0
2004 12 7 3 0 0 0
2003 13 9 4 1 0 1
2002 13 11 3 4 2 2
2001 12 10 6 1 2 2
2000 11 7 1 1 1 1
1999 18 9 4 3 1 0
Totals 129 81 37 19 8 7
Most Consecutive Matches won at the Accenture Match Play Championship
Player consecutive years
Tiger Woods 13 2003-05
Geoff Ogilvy 11 2006-07
Henrik Stenson 10 2007-08
David Toms 8 2005-06
Kevin Sutherland 8 2002-03
Accenture Match Play Championship records for Justin Leonard and Henrik Stenson
Justin Leonard (9-10)
1999 R1: beat Miguel Angel Jimenez, 4 and 3
R2: lost to Shigeki Maruyama, 4 and 2
2000 R1: beat Fred Funk, 6 and 5
R2: lost to Shigeki Maruyama, 1-down
2001 R1: beat Patrik Sjoland, 6 and 5
R2: beat Gary Orr, 20 holes
R3: lost to Steve Stricker, 6 and 5
2002 R1: lost to Jose Maria Olazabal, 1-down
2003 R1: beat Jose Maria Olazabal, 2-up
R2: lost to Stephen Leaney, 6 and 5
2004 R1: lost to Alex Cejka, 4 and 3
2005 R1: lost to John Daly, 1-down
2006 R1: lost to Ben Crane, 4 and 3
2008 R1: beat Geoff Ogilvy, 2 and 1
R2: beat Lee Westwood, 2 and 1
R3: beat Stuart Appleby, 3 and 2
QF: beat Vijay Singh, 1 up
SF: lost to Stewart Cink, 4 and 2
Consolation: lost to Henrik Stenson, 3 and 2
Henrik Stenson (12-2)
2006 R1: beat Paul Casey, 1-up
R2: lost to Chad Campbell, 1-down
2007 R1: beat Zach Johnson, 1-up
R2: beat K.J. Choi, 2-up
R3: beat Aaron Baddeley, 4 and 3
QF: beat Nick O’Hern, 1-up
SF: beat Trevor Immelman, 3 and 2
Championship: beat Geoff Ogilvy
2008 R1: beat Robert Allenby, 1-up
R2: beat Trevor Immelman, 25 holes
R3: beat Jonathan Byrd, 1 up
QF: beat Woody Austin, 2 up
SF: lost to Tiger Woods, 2 up
Consolation: beat Justin Leonard, 3 and 2
Accenture Match Play Championship records for Stewart Cink and Tiger Woods
Stewart Cink (13-9)
1999 R1: beat Payne Stewart, 3 and 2
R2: beat Craig Parry, 3 and 2
R3: lost to Tiger Woods, 2 and 1
2000 R1: lost to Retief Goosen, 3 and 2
2001 R1: lost to Mark McNulty, 1-down
2002 R1: lost to Charles Howell III, 4 and 3
2004 R1: beat K.J. Choi, 4 and 2
R2: lost to Colin Montgomerie, 5 and 4
2005 R1 beat Fred Funk, 2-up
R2: beat Tom Lehman, 2 and 1
R3: beat Davis Love III, 20 holes
QF: lost to Chris DiMarco, 2 and 1
2006 R1: lost to Mike Weir, 4 and 3
2007 R1: beat Jeev Milkha Singh, 3 and 2
R2: beat Padraig Harrington, 1-up
R3: lost to Stephen Ames, 3 and 1
2008 R1: beat Miguel A. Jimenez, 4 and 3
R2: beat Padraig Harrington, 2-up
R3: beat Colin Montgomerie, 4 and 2
QF: beat Angel Cabrera, 3 and 2
SF: beat Justin Leonard, 4 and 2
Championship: lost to Tiger Woods, 8 and 7
Tiger Woods (31-6)
1999 R1: beat Nick Faldo, 4 and 3
R2: beat Bob Tway, 1-up
R3: beat Stewart Cink, 2 and 1
QF: lost to Jeff Maggert, 2 and 1
2000 R1: beat Michael Campbell, 5 and 4
R2: beat Retief Goosen, 1-up
R3: beat Shigeki Maruyama, 4 and 3
QF: beat Paul Lawrie, 1-up
SF: beat Davis Love III, 5 and 4
Championship: lost to Darren Clarke, 4 and 3
2002 R1: lost to Peter O’Malley, 2 and 1
2003 R1: beat Carl Pettersson, 2 and 1
R2: beat K.J. Choi, 5 and 3
R3: beat Stephen Leaney, 7 and 6
QF: beat Scott Hoch, 5 and 4
SF: beat Adam Scott, 19 holes
Championship: beat David Toms, 2 and 1
2004 R1: beat John Rollins, 1-up
R2: beat Trevor Immelman, 5 and 4
R3: beat Fredrik Jacobson, 5 and 4
QF: beat Padraig Harrington, 2 and 1
SF: beat Stephen Leaney, 2 and 1
Championship: beat Davis Love III, 3 and 2
2005 R1: beat Nick Price, 4 and 3
R2: lost Nick O’Hern, 3 and 1
2006 R1: beat Stephen Ames, 9 and 8
R2: beat Robert Allenby, 1-up
R3: lost to Chad Campbell, 1-down
2007 R1: beat J.J. Henry, 3 and 2
R2: beat Tim Clark, 5 and 4
R3: lost to Nick O’Hern, 20 holes
2008 R1: beat J.B. Holmes, 1 up
R2: beat Arron Oberholser, 3 and 2
R3: beat Aaron Baddeley, 20 holes
QF: beat K.J. Choi, 3 and 2
SF: beat Henrik Stenson, 2 up
Championship: beat Stewart Cink, 8 and 7
Temperatures in the upper 70s with partly cloudy skies. SW winds from 10-15 mph gusting to 20 mph in the afternoon.
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