PGA Tour WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship

The PGA Tour WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship is a descendant of the 1995-98 32-man match play event, the Andersen Consulting World Championship of Golf. It was inaugurated in 1999 and hosted since then by La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California (except in 2001 - it was hosted by the Metropolitan Golf Club, Victoria, Australia).

The yearly World Golf Championships event for male professional golfers is sponsored by and named after a consulting firm, the Accenture. The single-elimination match play event is not played at stroke play, but rather at 18-hole match play matches (golfer rank #1 vs golfer rank #64; golfer Rank #2 vs golfer rank #63; and so forth.

The game begins with a field of 64 golfers coming from the Official World Golf Rankings until two golfers remain for the 36-hole championship match and will win the Walter Hagen Cup and a prize money (2009 - $1.4 million). The last two golfers on the final day will play a 36-hole championship match for the 2st and 2nd third places while the other 2 semifinal golfers will play for the 3rd and 4th places.

PGA Tour WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship Winners

WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
2009 - Geoff Ogilvy (Australia)
2008 - Tiger Woods (United States)
2007 - Henrik Stenson (Sweden)

2006Geoff Ogilvy (Australia)
2005David Toms (United States)
2004 - Tiger Woods (United States)
2003 - Tiger Woods (United States)
2002 - Kevin Sutherland (United States)
2001 - Steve Stricker (United States)

WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship
2000 - Darren Clarke (Northern Ireland)
1999 - Jeff Maggert (United States)