WGC-Accenture World Match-Play 2011: Players You Can Expect To Be in the Running

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Published: February 21, 2011

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England’s Ian Poulter will defend his WGC-Accenture Match Play title this week in Marana, Arizona, against Stewart Cink, winner of the 2009 British Open and a man with a very good record in this tournament.

Cink was runner up in this in 2008 to Tiger Woods and finished third in 2007.

Poulter won the tournament last year after defeating compatriot Paul Casey 4-and-2 in the final, a win that confirmed Poulter as one of the very best match play players in the world currently.

His reputation for this form of the game was really made in the Ryder Cup of 2008, where he won four points from a possible five and followed that up with an equally good performance in the 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor in Wales.

Another big performance should be expected from Poulter this week.

It had been hoped that the world’s top 64 players would contest the event but the organisers have missed out by one, with Toru Taniguchi having to pull out with injury.

His place will be taken by first reserve, Henrik Stenson, who won this tournament in 2007 and came third in 2008, but now has the task of playing world number one Lee Westwood in the first round.

Surprisingly, it is one of only two all European ties, the other being Martin Laird of Scotland against Edoardo Molinari.

 

The draw looks like this:

Lee Westwood vs Henrik Stenson, Nick Watney vs Anthony Kim, Retief Goosen vs KJ Choi, Francesco Molinari vs Ryan Moore, Steve Stricker vs Matteo Manassero, Charl Schwartzel vs Ryo Ishikawa, Luke Donald vs Charley Hoffman, Edoardo Molinari vs Martin Laird. Phil Mickelson vs Brendan Jones, Rickie Fowler vs Peter Hanson, Matt Kuchar vs Anders Hansen, Louis Oosthuizen vs Bo Van Pelt, Graeme McDowell vs Heath Slocum, Robert Allenby vs Ross Fisher, Ian Poulter vs Stewart Cink, Alvaro Quiros vs YE Yang. Martin Kaymer vs Noh Seung-yul, Zach Johnson vs Justin Rose, Robert Karls...
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