The 2014 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship was the 16th WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, held February at The Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana, Arizona, northwest of Tucson. It was the first of four World Golf Championships in 2014. With a field of 64 competitors, the five-day six-round event began on Wednesday, with the semifinals and finals on Sunday. Jason Day won his first WGC title at the 23rd hole of the final match with Victor Dubuisson.

This was the eighth and final edition of the championship contested in Marana, the host since 2007. The tournament moved back to California in 2015, held in early May at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, and went to Austin, Texas, in March 2016.

This was also the final edition in which the entire tournament was single-elimination, as the first two rounds were replaced by round-robin play in 2015, with sixteen players advancing to the knock-out bracket on the weekend.

Course

Course Saguaro Tortolita Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal Yards4605742083935361854865764763,8944936012195834493432474824803,8977,791 Par453443454364535443443672

The average elevation of the course was approximately above sea level. The only yardage change from 2012 was the shortening of the 11th hole from 659 to 601 yards, as it had been in 2011.

Brackets The Championship is a single elimination match play event. The field consists of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Ranking on February 9, 2014.Official World Golf Ranking – February 9, 2014 seeded according to the February 16 rankings.Official World Golf Ranking – February 16, 2014

Three of the top four ranked players, Tiger Woods (ranked #1), Adam Scott (2), and Phil Mickelson (4) chose not to enter and were replaced by Richard Sterne (65), Scott Piercy (66), and Kiradech Aphibarnrat (67).

Three players were appearing in their first WGC event: Victor Dubuisson, Chris Kirk and Patrick Reed.

Bobby Jones bracket

Ben Hogan bracket

Gary Player bracket

Sam Snead bracket

Final Four

Scorecard Final match Hole 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 101112131415161718Par453443454453544344Match 1up 2up 1up A/S A/S 1up 2up 2up 3up 3up 3up 3up 2up 2up 2up 2up 1up A/S Day 34 3 5 5 3 3 4 C 4 4 3 5 4 3 3 4 5 Dubuisson 56 2 4 5 4 5 4 4 4 3 4 4 3 3 3 4

Hole 19  20  21  22  23 Par44444Match A/S A/SA/SA/S1up Day 445 43 Dubuisson 445 44

Prize money breakdown Place US ($) Champion 1,530,000 Runner-up 906,000 Third place 630,000 Fourth place 510,000 Losing quarter-finalists x 4 280,000 Losing third round x 8 148,000 Losing second round x 16 99,000 Losing first round x 32 48,000 Total 9,000,000 Source:

References

External links

Coverage on the European Tour's official site