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CARLSBAD, Calif. -- The field for next week's
World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship was
announced this afternoon and will feature Vijay
Singh, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Retief Goosen as
the top seeds in each of the tournament’s four brackets.
The Accenture Match Play Championship will begin Wednesday, Feb. 23 at
La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.
The four brackets at the Accenture Match Play Championship are named in
honor of Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Sam Snead. The brackets
will be released Monday, February 21 at 4 p.m. PST, when they become
official. After that point, any player who withdraws from the tournament
will not be replaced, and his scheduled opponent will win in a walkover.
Prior to the Monday deadline, alternates can gain entrance into the
field.
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.
In this format, Singh, the highest-ranked player from the Official World
Golf Ranking, will be the top seed in the Bobby Jones bracket and will
play Japan’s Shingo Katayama. Woods, the second-ranked player in the
world, will be the top seed in the Gary Player bracket, while Mickelson
and Goosen will be the top seeds in the Snead and Hogan brackets,
respectively.
| 2005 World Golf
Championship-Accenture Match Play Championship field |
| 1. Vijay Singh |
17. Justin Leonard
| 33. Jay Haas
| 49. Tim Herron |
| 2. Tiger Woods
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18. Luke Donald
| 34. Charles Howell | 50. Thomas Levet |
| 3. Phil Mickelson |
19. Stephen Ames | 35. Paul Casey
| 51. Richard Green |
| 4. Retief Goosen |
20. Chad Campbell | 36. Fred Couples | 52. Rod Pampling |
| 5. Mike Weir |
21. Todd Hamilton | 37. Craig Parry
| 53. Graeme McDowell |
| 6. Sergio Garcia |
22. Shigeki Maruyama | 38. Jerry Kelly
| 54. Trevor Immelman |
| 7. Padraig Harrington |
23. Jim Furyk | 39. Rory Sabbatini
| 55. Joakim Haeggman |
| 8. Stewart Cink |
24. Lee Westwood | 40. Tom Lehman
| 56. Chris Riley |
| 9. Davis Love III |
25. K.J. Choi | 41. Steve Flesch | 57. Fred Funk |
| 10. Stuart Appleby |
26. Thomas Bjorn | 42. Ian Poulter | 58. Jeff Maggert |
| 11. Adam Scott |
27. Scott Verplank | 43. David Howell | 59. Alex Cejka |
| 12. Darren Clarke |
28. Tim Clark | 44. Robert Allenby | 60. Kirk Triplett |
| 13. Miguel Angel Jimenez |
29. Peter Lonard | 45. Fredrik
Jacobson | 61. Stephen Leaney |
| 14. David Toms |
30. Angel Cabrera | 46. Mark Hensby
| 62. Loren Roberts |
| 15. Kenny Perry |
31. Nick O'Hern | 47. Zach Johnson | 63. Nick Price |
| 16. Chris DiMarco |
32. Jonathan Kaye | 48. John Daly
| 64. Shingo Katayama |
Alternates:
1st Toru Taniguchi (Japan)
2nd Bob Tway (United States)
3rd Arron Oberholser (United States)
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