The WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship is an annual golf championship among the professional golfers. Each year thousands of golf fans witness a captivating tournament with the most famous golf stars. The championship is held either in January or in February. In 2006 the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship took place at La Costa Resort and Spa, located in California. It was held here since the very beginning, and only in 2001 it was hosted by the Metropolitan Golf Club, situated in Victoria, Australia.
In 2007 and during the following four years the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship will be held in Marana, Arizona, at the Gallery Golf Club, though this decision was criticized by some of the golfers, including Ernie Els and Tiger Woods. The PGA Tour commissioner, Tim Finchem, commented the situation saying that it was better for the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship to be played in the USA, because more money can be made here than in any other place.
The WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship is a straight knock-out match play competition having best 64 golf players as participants. They are chosen according to their positions in the Official World Golf rankings. In February 2006 the sum of the prize money equaled 7.5 million US dollars; the winner took 1.3 million and the Walter Hagen Cup (Geoff Ogilvy from Australia). This amount is the official money for both tours, the PGA Tour (the Professional Golfers Association) and the European Tour. All matches before the final one are 18 holes, and the final match is 36 holes. The players, who lost in the semifinals, participate in the additional 18-hole game for the third place.
The first WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship was held in 1999, but it still managed to conquer thousands of golf fans from all over the world. The first winner was Jeff Maggert from the Unites States. In 2000 Darren Clarke from the Northen Ireland became the best player and took the main prize. In 2001 Steve Stricker won the Walter Hagen Cup. The following year the famous Kevin Sutherland proved his professional skills of a golfer once again. In 2003 Tiger Woods made it to the final and became the best of the best. He is considered to be one of the most successful golf players ever. Aged 31, he is currently the world number one. He is also the highest paid athlete, who has earned more that 87 million dollars by now. He repeated his success at the 2004 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.
The 2005 winner of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship was David Toms, a multiple winner of various golf competitions, and the 2006 winner was Geoff Ogilvy from Australia.
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