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The Accenture Match Play Championship

February 19^th – 25^th 2006

The Accenture Match Play Championship

This competition started in 1999, with Jeff Maggert winning the first event. The event is part of the World Golf Championships and players from all the major golf tours participate. The other three events in the World Golf Championships are The Bridgestone Invitational, The American Express Championship, and The World Cup.

The Accenture Match Play Championship is both organised and sanctioned by the International Federation of PGA Tours. Former winners of this competition include Tiger Woods, Kevin Sutherland and David Toms.

The 2007 event is to be held February 19^th – 25^th at The Gallery Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Arizona.

Qualifying for the Accenture Match Play Championship

Qualification for the event is dependent on a player's standing in the Official World Rankings. Only the top sixty-four golfers in the list will be invited to play at the Accenture World Match Play Championship.

Format of the Accenture Match Play Championship

The format of the event is Single-Elimination Match Play. In other words, it's a knockout competition that continues until one player is victorious. The participants are seeded from 1 to 64, according to their standing in the World Rankings. The No 1 golfer will then play the No 64 golfer, with the no 2 seed playing the No 63 seed and so on. The final match to decide the winner of The Accenture Match Play Championship is played over two rounds of the course.

Previous Winners of the Accenture Match Play Championship

This competition has only been running for six years but so far it has only been won by a non-American once. The world's number one golfer, Tiger Woods, has won this event twice in the last four years.

Here are the last five winners of the Accenture Match Play Championship:

2006: Geoff Ogilvy (USA)

2005: David Toms (USA)

2004: Tiger Woods (USA)

2003: Tiger Woods (USA)

2002: Kevin Sutherland (USA)

Betting on the Accenture World Match Play Championship

The main tip for a competition such as this is to check course form and player form. For example, this tournament has been won twice by Tiger Woods in the last three years on the same course. If Woods starts off well in the first tournaments of the year, then he will be one of the favourites to win.

Individual match odds will also be made, where punters bet on who will win in each match. Odds may also be available on who has the best score and the winning margin a player has over his opponent.

For the latest odds on the 2007 Accenture Match Play Championship from a range of bookmakers and betting exchanges, visit our Latest Odds section.

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