Tiger Woods Out. Mickelson, Westwood and Kaymer Remain at Accenture

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Published: February 24, 2011

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After the first day of shock and surprise the Accenture Match Play starts to get  interesting.  

Shocks included Tiger Woods being defeated in round one by a nemesis from a decade ago, Thomas Bjorn, Steve Stricker losing to Matteo Manassero and Jim Furyk being defeated by Ryan Palmer.  

Surprises would be Alvaro Quiros losing to Y.E. Yang, despite the fact that Quiros just won a tournament, Matt Kuchar taking 22 holes and a batch of missed opportunities to dismiss Anders Hansen, and Ben Crane taking out Adam Scott 4 and 2.

But so much for the major and minor upsets.  Tallying up the picks for round one, out of 32 matches, count them,  20 correct predictions, which is not awful when a lot of these matches are really a toss up.  Round one was all about who is on form now, and we have 32 who are and 32 who aren’t. It’s more fun to pick from guys who are doing well this week.

Of the remaining, Martin Kaymer had the most convincing victory, 7 and 6 over Seung-yul Noh and Phil Mickelson’s was the second strongest at 6 and 5 over Brendan Jones.  Since Noh and Jones were lesser ranked players, it is to be expected, unlike the Bjorn upset of Tiger Woods.

Eight matches went extra holes, demonstrating how close the skill levels are at the top in professional golf. 

What about round two?  Who do we look for?  And always remember Roger Maltbie’s advice on the wind: “When the Saguaros move, get low!”

 

Westwood Bracket

Look for Lee Westwood to dust off Nick Watney or perhaps logo him to death. Westwood has so many logos he looks like a NASCAR driver.  It will probably make Nick Watney’s eyes cross going from UPS to Dunlop to PING and so on and so forth.   

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Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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