WGC Accentre Matchplay!

This is getting interesting! Tiger's out in the 2nd round to Nick O'Hern. Who would have predicted that one????

Through 2 rounds, I have to pick:
Love in the Jones bracket (especially since the way he destroyed Westwood)
Goosen in the Hogan bracket
and Love to beat Goosen


Poulter will come out of the Player bracket
Mickelson in the Sneed bracket
and Mickelson to beat Poulter

Mickelson vs Love? My bet will be on Phil. He has made some AMAZING recover shots. Man, that guy has a LOT of tools in his bag.

Yes its all going on! my bets are maybe mickleson and poulter they are both steaming through there matches, but adam scott is doin great as well, its still to hard to call for a winner as most people thought tiger or vijay might b in the final!

Watch Adam Scott and Nick O'Hern. C'mon Aussie C'mon!

What you guys think of Ian Poulter as an outsider or even SergioTold you Europe is gonna rule both tours once we get some guys across the pond on a regular basis

I with keith on that one! the europeans have started well on the pga tour this year, and i reckon at least 2 or 3 brits will win over there, and ian poulter is doing great in the accentre.

What about an Allenby v O'Hern final? Or perhaps Allenby v Scott?

GO OZ !

Well he is still there, shame about all the big names going out NOT

Allenby v Poulter final ???

Man I hate it when I'm right and dont bet on it......disappointed at Donald not making a better fist of it but O'Hern is playing superb just now. Was impressed when watching him against Tiger, hitting it to 10 feet and then watching Tiger trying and failing to get it inside from closer. He held his nerve well, it can't be easy to play Tiger when he is that close to home.



Heres the quarter finals, Goosen looking better and better for a final appearance.



(16) Chris DiMarco (USA) v (8) Stewart Cink (USA)

(4) Retief Goosen (Rsa) v (44) Robert Allenby (Aus) (31) Nick O'Hern (Aus) v (42) Ian Poulter (Gbr)
(14) David Toms (USA) v (11) Adam Scott (Aus)

From that my Semi Final prediction is

DiMarco vs Goosen
O'Hern vs Scott

Although I would like to see Poulter continue his run.


Here's another point, what does everyone think of the fact that 3 out of the four WGC events are in the US this year and all the singles ones at that. Yet more bias towards the PGA Tour. They need to start playing these things in Africa or the Far East I think, this would be the best compromise.

C'mon the Poulter!!!!

D.

I want goosen or poulter to win and maybe them in the final if they are not in the same bracket!

Do you really think the Americans would inconvenience themselves by travelling outside America to play? I don't think so ... Life is too comfortable on the US Tour. I rekon if it was played in say Dubai or Japan or Australiam we'd be lucky to see 10 Americans.

As much as I agree with you, it will never happen. Greg Norman said it best in an interview last year: "They [meaning the American-based players] don't need to work as hard or travel anymore like we did. You can be very average and make a fortune."

Well its an all american final! dimarco Vs Toms, who do you wat to win? im not to shure really, but there is also the match with goosen and poulter for 3rd and 4th place

Yea, Graham, but we are talking about the top 64 or so in the world here. They will already be hopelessly rich by virtue of what they have to do to get into that rarified group. I'm stunned at what a win means in reference to World Ranking Points in this thing - 37 points for the winner!!!!!! Scott Drummond got 32 for his Volvo PGA win and that was a top tourney against a full field. This WGC thing smacks of the rich getting richer.

Its not really a world championship if only 64 players in the world are allowed to play is it?

This world ranking points thing that has been discussed time and again on this forum is really starting to get on my goat. I wonder what the world ranking table would look like if every tournament was graded equally? I would imagine that there would be far fewer average american players cluttering up the high end of the lists.

I did a bit of research and heres a list of American and European players The first player is better than the other, ask yourself if (without looking at the rankings list) that is really the case over the last couple of seasons

Player 1 Player 2
Stewart Cink Stuart Appelby
Tom Lehman Paul Casey
Chad Campbell Luke Donald
Fred Funk Colin Montgomerie
Bob Tway Shingo Katayama
Kirk Triplett Nick Price

I would take any of the players on the right of the list to make a score for me on a random course anywhere in the world. Maybe not on one of those target golf identikit turf nursery stadium course in the states but anywhere else for sure.

D.

Hey I just love it when I am not the only one who thinks the American circuit is purly to make them look better. We all know how they react with a windy links with long rough. "Its not Fair" We want nice conditions a friendly crowd and easy fairways with forgiving rough and oh What is a pot bunker? They are not allowed are they?

If you dont hit the fairway then you should be punished!!!
Sorry if the Americans dont like it but I thought thats how you play golf ?