CARLSBAD, CA. – Feb. 22, 2005 – The field for this week's World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship has been announced. The event will feature Vijay Singh, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Retief Goosen as the top seeds in each of the tournament’s four brackets.
The Accenture Match Play Championship will begin Wednesday, Feb. 23 at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.
The four brackets at the Accenture Match Play Championship are named in honor of Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Sam Snead. The brackets will be released Monday, February 21 (US time) when they become official. After that point, any player who withdraws from the tournament will not be replaced, and his scheduled opponent will win in a walkover.
Prior to the Monday deadline, alternates can gain entrance into the field.
Players in each of the four brackets are seeded No. 1 through No. 16, with the top-ranked golfer playing the No. 16 seed, No. 2 pairing off against No. 15, No. 3 vs. No. 14, and so forth in the first round.
In this format, Singh, the highest-ranked player from the Official World Golf Ranking, will be the top seed in the Bobby Jones bracket and will play Japan’s Shingo Katayama. Woods, the second-ranked player in the world, will be the top seed in the Gary Player bracket, while Mickelson and Goosen will be the top seeds in the Snead and Hogan brackets, respectively.
2005 Accenture Match Play Championship Field
1. Vijay Singh
2. Tiger Woods
3. Phil Mickelson
4. Retief Goosen
5. Mike Weir
6. Sergio Garcia
7. Padraig
8. Stewart Cink
9. Davis Love III
10. Stuart Appleby
11. Adam Scott
12. Darren Clarke
13. Miguel Angel Jimenez
14. David Toms
15. Kenny Perry
16. Chris DiMarco
17. Justin Leonard
18. Luke Donald
19. Stephen Ames
20. Chad Campbell
21. Todd Hamilton
22. Shigeki
23. Jim Furyk
24. Lee Westwood
25. K.J. Choi
26. Thomas Bjorn
27. Scott Verplank
28. Tim Clark
29. Peter Lonard
30. Angel Cabrera
31. Nick O'Hern
32. Jonathan Kaye
33. Jay Haas
34. Charles Howell
35. Paul Casey
36. Fred Couples
37. Craig Parry
38. Jerry Kelly
39. Rory Sabbatini
40. Tom Lehman
41. Steve Flesch
42. Ian Poulter
43. David Howell
44. Robert Allenby
45. Fredrik Jacobson
46. Mark Hensby
47. Zach Johnson
48. John Daly
49. Tim Herron
50. Thomas Levet
51. Richard Green
52. Rod Pampling
53. Graeme McDowell
54. Trevor Immelman
55. Joakim Haeggman
56. Chris Riley
57. Fred Funk
58. Jeff Maggert
59. Alex Cejka
60. Kirk Triplett
61. Stephen Leaney
62. Loren Roberts
63. Nick Price
64. Shingo Katayama
Alternates
1st Toru Taniguchi (JPN)
2nd Bob Tway (USA)
3rd Arron Oberholser (USA)
Source: WGC
