Newsday (N.Y.): Jason Day wins Match Play Championship, beating Victor Dubuisson on fifth extra hole

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

MARANA, Ariz. — The Frenchman who not many knew kept pulling off shots that few could believe, saving pars out of the desert. But in the end it was Jason Day, the Aussie, who ended up the winner on what was one of golf's longest days.

Three holes ahead with only six to play, Day had to make a birdie putt on the 23rd hole Sunday to defeat Victor Dubuisson, 1 up, and take the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Mahan beats McIlroy to win Match Play

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

MARANA, Ariz. -- Enthronement will have to wait. Hunter Mahan, who is down the scale of fame, Sunday kept Rory McIlroy from winning both the Accenture WGC Match Play Championship and climbing to the No. 1 world ranking.

Was there motivation because the fans early on were chanting for McIlroy, the Northern Irishman, instead of Mahan, an American?

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Newsday (N.Y.): Final four set for match play title

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

MARANA, Ariz. -- The glamour is one side of the draw, where Rory McIlroy will face Lee Westwood, with a place at the top of golf's world rankings a possibility for the winner. The national interest is on the other side, the American side.

The marathon called the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship has reached today's final two rounds at the Ritz-Carlton Club on Dove Mountain north of Tucson, semifinals in the morning,McIlroy against Westwood, and Hunter Mahan against Mark Wilson.

The final between the winners...

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Newsday (N.Y.): Westwood beats Watney to reach quarterfinals

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

MARANA, Ariz. -- It's strange territory for Lee Westwood. He's played this tournament before, played the desert course at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club. What he hadn't done in the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship in his 11 attempts was get past the second round.

Westwood, a 3-and-2 third-round winner Friday over Nick Watney, the man who bounced Tiger Woods, said he "had a little chuckle'' a couple of days ago about pre-tournament predictions on The Golf Channel.

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Global Golf Post: Neither Wind, Nor Hail, Nor Cold...

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

MARANA, ARIZONA -- What we learned during a week of hail, high winds and unplanned hikes into cactus and mesquite trees -- not that we didn't know -- was the best players in golf are from Europe and that the worst conditions in golf most likely are at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.

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