Woods, Furyk, Scott And Mickelson Currently The Top Seeds
(Tucson, Arizona, USA) – With the qualification deadline nearly one month away, the field for this year’s World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship continues to develop as players move into position for the 64-player match-play event at The Gallery Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Tucson, Arizona, on February 19-25.
The top 64 available players from the Official World Golf Ranking released on Monday, February 12, 2007, will qualify for this year’s event as the tournament moves to Arizona for the first time after being contested at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California, for seven of the last eight years.
If the tournament were held today, Tiger Woods, Jim Furyk, Adam Scott and Phil Mickelson would hold the top spots in the Bobby Jones, Gary Player, Sam Snead and Ben Hogan brackets, respectively. Vijay Singh, winner of last week’s Mercedes-Benz Championship, currently ranks No. 5 in the Official World Golf Ranking, but could easily find himself as a No. 1 seed if his winning form continues. Defending champion, and 2006 U.S. Open winner, Geoff Ogilvy is also well within the top 64 at No. 9 in the rankings.
Players in each of the four brackets are seeded No. 1 through No. 16, with the top-ranked golfer playing the No. 16 seed, No. 2 pairing off against No. 15, No. 3 vs. No. 14, and so forth in the first round.
The following are the top-64 ranked players as of Monday, Jan. 8:
Tiger Woods (USA)
Jim Furyk (USA)
Adam Scott (Australia)
Phil Mickelson (USA)
Vijay Singh (Fiji)
Ernie Els (S. Africa)
Padraig Harrington (Ireland)
Retief Goosen (S. Africa)
Geoff Ogilvy (Australia)
Luke Donald (England)
Sergio Garcia (Spain)
Trevor Immelman (S. Africa)
Henrik Stenson (Sweden)
Paul Casey (England)
David Howell (England)
Davis Love III (USA)
Colin Montgomerie (Scotland)
Jose Maria Olazabal (Spain)
David Toms (USA)
Nick O’Hern (Australia)
Chris DiMarco (USA)
Stuart Appleby (Australia)
Michael Campbell (NZ)
Shingo Katayama (Japan)
Stewart Cink (USA)
Angel Cabrera (Argentina)
K.J. Choi (South Korea)
Tim Clark (S. Africa)
Robert Karlsson (Sweden)
Chad Campbell (USA)
Rod Pampling (Australia)
Joe Durant (USA)
Yong-Eun Yang (S. Korea)
Ian Poulter (England)
Carl Pettersson (Sweden)
Stephen Ames (Canada)
Jeev M. Singh (India)
Brett Wetterich (USA)
Rory Sabbatini (S. Africa)
Darren Clarke (N. Ireland)
Lucas Glover (USA)
Ben Crane (USA)
Robert Allenby (Australia)
Johan Edfors (Sweden)
Mike Weir (Canada)
Niclas Fasth (Sweden)
Arron Oberholser (USA)
Thomas Bjorn (Denmark)
Lee Westwood (England)
Justin Rose (England)
Bradley Dredge (Whales)
Scott Verplank (USA)
Bart Bryant (USA)
Zach Johnson (USA)
Charl Schwartzel (S. Africa)
Shaun Micheel (USA)
Steve Stricker (USA)
J.J. Henry (USA)
Brett Quigley (USA)
Tom Lehman (USA)
Anthony Wall (England)
Tom Pernice, Jr. (USA)
Richard Green (Australia)
Paul Broadhurst (England)
For tickets and more information, please call 1-866-WGC-AMPC, (866-942-2672) or log onto www.worldgolfchampionships.com.
ABOUT THE ACCENTURE MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
This year marks the ninth playing of the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship. The Accenture Match Play Championship is one of four World Golf Championships, which are sanctioned and organized by the International Federation of PGA Tours, which includes the Asian Tour, European Tour, Japan Golf Tour, PGA TOUR, PGA Tour of Australasia and Southern Africa Tour. The other World Golf Championships include the Bridgestone Invitational, CA Championship and the World Cup. For more information, please visit www.worldgolfchampionships.com.
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Contact:
James Cramer
World Golf Championships
Tel: 904-273-3293
Email: jcramer@pgatourhq.com
Gary E. Beckner
Accenture
Tel: 312-693-7880
Email: gary.e.beckner@accenture.com
