2008 WGC Accenture Match Play Championship

Golf’s version of March Madness, will take place this week at The Gallery Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana, AZ. 64 of golf’s best will be split up into 4 brackets just as the NCAA Tournament is. Each bracket is named in memory of a legend. The bracket names are, Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Gary Player, and Bobby Jones. This event might be even more crazy and unpredictable than the hoops version that takes place in about a month. The overall number 1 seed will be none other than Tiger Woods. While the odds on favorite is of course Tiger, this is one event where you just never know what will happen. Tiger has won the event twice when he won it back-to-back in 2003 and 2004. Last years winner Henrik Stenson defeated Geoff Ogilvy 2&1 during the 36 hole final round. There will be 26.250 FedEx Cup points available this week, along with a purse of $8 million.

While almost every other tournament is played by stroke play totaling four rounds. This event you play just one golfer for 18 holes, but its not the overall best score that wins. Golfers compete for each individual hole and the golfer with the most holes wins. If one golfer is far enough ahead that his opponent is mathematically eliminated, then the match is stopped and the winner is crowned. To kind of explain the terms, if a golfer is up 2 holes with one hole to go, the other golfer is done because he can’t make up two holes at once. This match would then be over and the winner would have won 2&1. Just as someone up five holes with four to go would win by the score of 5&4. All matches are 18 holes except for the final that is 36 holes.

Picking a winner in this event can be pretty tricky, and while the safe bet is of course either Tiger or Phil Mickelson, anyone in the field can get on a hot streak and walk away victorious. For example the lowest seed to win the tournament is when Kevin Sutherland was ranked 62nd in 2002 and won the event. The #1 seed has only made it to the final four 4 out of the 9 times. Last year was the first time someone other than the #1 seed in the top 10 won the event, when #9 Stenson took home the trophy. This will mark the 10 time this event will be played, so its hard to say just who really has the edge because of how crazy it has been so far.

While if we had to put our money on anyone to win it would be Tiger Woods, but due to the craziness of this event. We will pick 4 different golfers from each bracket that we think will have a good chance to win it all

Bobby Jones Bracket

#2 seed Rory Sabbatini 40 – 1

Gary Player Bracket

#7 Scott Verplank 60 - 1

Sam Snead Bracket

#3 Padraig Harrington 20 - 1

Ben Hogan Bracket

#2 Adam Scott 15 - 1

These odds were found at BetUS. So while it might be hard to put big money on someone other than Woods, you might be able to put a little bit on one of these guys and end up making a good amount because of their high odds. So head over to BetUS now and get your bets in on the big event. Below is a list of every golfers odds to win, and as always feel free to leave any comments you might have.

Aaron Baddeley 60 - 1

Adam Scott1 5 - 1

Andres Romero 100 - 1

Angel Cabrera 50 - 1

Boo Weekley 60 - 1

Brandt Snedeker 80 - 1

Camilo Villegas 80 - 1

Charles Howell III 60 - 1

Colin Montgomerie 80 - 1

Daniel Chopra 100 - 1

David Toms 50 - 1

Ernie Els 20 - 1

Geoff Ogilvy 50 - 1

Henrik Stenson 30 - 1

Hunter Mahan 60 - 1

Ian Poulter 60 - 1

Jim Furyk 30 - 1

John Senden 100 - 1

Jonathan Byrd 100 - 1

Justin Leonard 50 - 1

Justin Rose 30 - 1

KJ Choi 30 - 1

Lee Westwood 50 - 1

Luke Donald 30 - 1

Martin Kaymer 60 - 1

Mike Weir 50 - 1

Nick OHern 80 - 1

Niclas Fasth 80 - 1

Padraig Harrington 20 - 1

Paul Casey 60 - 1

Phil Mickelson 10 - 1

Retief Goosen 60 - 1

Richard Sterne 100 - 1

Robert Allenby 50 - 1

Robert Karlsson 100 - 1

Rod Pampling 100 - 1

Rory Sabbatini 40 - 1

Scott Verplank 60 - 1

Sergio Garcia 40 - 1

Stephen Ames 60 - 1

Steve Stricker 30 - 1

Stewart Cink 60 - 1

Stuart Appleby 40 - 1

Tiger Woods 2 - 1

Tim Clark 80 - 1

Trevor Immelman 60 - 1

Vijay Singh 30 - 1

Woody Austin 100 - 1

Zach Johnson 60 - 1

zx Field (Any Other Golfer) 9 - 1

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Golf | February 18th, 2008 by BetFirms
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