"Very cool," Ogilvy said.

He still has to stay in the top 64 in the world by next year, although Ogilvy appears to be on the rise. "It just shows you how many good players we have out here," Love said.

Ogilvy rallied over the final four holes of the morning to take a 1-up lead through 18 holes, had plenty of time for lunch and to keep loose, then he and Love teed off for the afternoon round 10 minutes behind the consolation match. The timing was to allow fans to watch two groups play La Costa.

Ultimately, the day was about squandered chances for Love.

In the morning, he was on the verge of going 2 up on the 14th hole when he lipped out a 3-foot par putt and halved the hole, then pushed his drive on the 15th into the right rough and made double bogey. Ogilvy took his first lead with a 6-foot birdie on the 16th.

"That was a shocker," Love said, conceding that it cost him the hole and momentum.

Love missed three birdie putts inside 12 feet as Ogilvy grabbed a 3-up lead through 22 holes, but momentum swung back to Love when he pitched out of deep rough to save par on the next hole. He birdied the sixth, and Ogilvy missed a 5-foot par putt on the seventh as his lead dwindled to one hole.

Given an opening, Love tripped on his way through the door.

Ogilvy chopped up the ninth, hitting into rough short of the green, flubbing his chip into the bunker and having to scramble for bogey. Love went over the green, chipped to 10 feet and missed his par putt. Love had a 15-foot birdie putt on the 10th hole to square the match, but left it short.

And that was his last chance.

Ogilvy hit a magnificent iron from 227 yards into 6 feet for an eagle he never had to putt when Love went long on the par-5 11th, and the Aussie took a 3-up lead with an 8-foot birdie on the par-3 12th.

The victory moved Ogilvy into the top 30 in the Official World Golf Ranking and into third place on the PGA TOUR season money list. Ogilvy was the No. 52 seed, the third-highest to win in the eight-year history of the Accenture Match Play Championship behind Kevin Sutherland (No. 62) and Steve Stricker (No. 55).

But none of the other surprises had a week like this.

He went 19 holes against Campbell, 21 holes against Nick O'Hern, 21 holes against Weir and 19 holes against David Howell, all of them looking like losses until destiny smiled on Ogilvy.

It lasted one more day, his most stress-free of the week.

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