CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Geoff Ogilvy admits he used to be pretty hard on himself.

You’re useless, he’d say after one of his drives strayed into the deep rough. What in the world do you think you’re doing out here? You don’t belong with these guys.

“It was probably pretty embarrassing what I said to myself,” the Aussie recalled Sunday. “If you had talked to anyone else the way I talked to me, you wouldn’t be friends with them. I was hopeless.”

Many more days like Sunday at La Costa, though, and Ogilvy should be able to banish the negative thoughts all together. He played near flawless golf in beating Davis Love III 3 and 2 to win the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship.

Ogilvy earned a whopping $1.3 million to put in his bank account. He also got that Wedgewood blue Walter Hagen Trophy to put beside the shiny gold Conquistador helmet he won exactly a year ago this week at the Chrysler Classic of Tucson.

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And as luck would have it, the Accenture Match Play Championship moves to Tucson next year where it will be played at the Gallery Golf Club. So Ogilvy will get to defend a title in Arizona, after all.

“I kind of go back to defend in Tucson for two different tournaments in a way, which is kind of ironic,” the 28-year-old said. “That probably never happened before.”

Ogilvy is something of a late bloomer -- a “slow learner,” he says -- who doesn’t usually jump to the forefront when people discuss of the strong contingent of Australian golfers. Not to mention, he’s frequently confused with American Joe Ogilvie.

Earlier this week, Ogilvie’s photo accompanied an article about the Aussie in the San Diego Union-Tribune. Of course, maybe turnabout is fair play since Ogilvy’s mug found its way into the Masters media guide last year next to the bio of the Duke grad.

Sunday’s victory will certainly raise his profile Down Under, as well as in San Diego, Tucson, Augusta, Ga., and many other parts of the planet.

“I don’t know if it’s sunk in for either of us,” said Ogilvy’s Texas-born wife, Juli, who sat at the back of the interview room listening to her husband talk to reporters at the same time she was text messaging friends. “It means so much.

“His friends and family all knew he was a great player. Now the rest of the world knows how good he is, too. This is huge -- that’s all I can say.”