In its ten-year history, the Accenture Match Play Championship has generated many dramatic and captivating moments. Below is a list of the past Accenture Match Play Championship winners, and what we consider to be their key high-performance moments in the tournament:   2008 Winner – Tiger Woods
Gallery Golf Club at Dove Mountain, South Course, Marana, Arizona, U.S.
In a spectacular display of match-play skill, the world’s No. 1 golfer, Tiger Woods, defeated Stewart Cink, 8 and 7, to win his third Accenture Match Play Championship at The Gallery Golf Club just north of Tucson. The 36-hole championship match was the largest margin of victory in a final in the 10-year history of the World Golf Championships event.
 2007 Winner—Henrik Stenson
Gallery Golf Club at Dove Mountain, South Course, Marana, Arizona, U.S.
Sweden's Henrik Stenson unseated defending champion Geoff Ogilvy 2 & 1 to win the 2007 Accenture Match Play Championship, conducted at the South Course of the Gallery Golf Club at Dove Mountain, just outside Tucson. Both golfers never led by more than two holes during this hard-fought, head-to-head match.
 2006 Winner—Geoff Ogilvy
La Costa Resort & Spa, Carlsbad, California, U.S.
In his first appearance at the Accenture Match Play Championship, Australian Geoff Ogilvy defeated Davis Love III of the United States 3 & 2 to win the $1.3 million first place prize purse. Despite battling back and forth with Love III for most of the match, Ogilvy did not need the full 36 holes to win the championship title. Rather, he clinched the match when he went eagle, birdie on the 29th and 30th hole.
 2005 Winner—David Toms
La Costa Resort & Spa, Carlsbad, California, U.S.
David Toms captured his first World Golf Championships event by winning the 2005 Accenture Match Play Championship. Toms was so comfortable on the course, he made the five-day, single-elimination event look easy. On Friday of the tournament, he made seven birdies to oust Phil Mickelson in the third round, 4 & 2. He kept up his sparkling play defeating Australian Adam Scott, 2 & 1, and Englishman Ian Poulter, 3 & 2 during Saturday's quarter and semifinals rounds to reach the championship match. In one sensational stretch of three holes during the semifinal match with Poulter, Toms went birdie, eagle and eagle. On the final day of competition, Toms competed head-to-head against his former college rival Chris DiMarco and came out the winner after 31 holes.
 2004 Winner—Tiger Woods
La Costa Resort and Spa, Carlsbad, California, U.S.
In a record-breaking performance, reigning champion Tiger Woods defeated Davis Love III to capture the 2004 Accenture Match Play Championship and become the first player in the six-year history of this World Golf Championships event to win it twice. After falling behind in the first 18 holes of the scheduled 36-hole finals with Love, Woods put on a sparkling display of high-performance golf and gritty endurance. He rallied to go 3-up after 27 holes to close out Love 3 and 2 and reclaim the title he was defending. Woods won the first place $1.2 million prize, the largest purse in the history of the PGA TOUR.
 2003
Winner—Tiger Woods
La Costa Resort and Spa, Carlsbad, California,
U.S.
The 2003 Accenture Match Play Championship saw the
unmatchable Tiger Woods beat sixth-ranked David Toms 2 and 1. It marked the
first time in the five-year history of the Accenture event that two top-10
ranked players squared off in the 36-hole championship match. By beating Toms,
Woods also became the first player to win all four World Golf Championships.
"It feels pretty cool," Woods said. He added that this was the most satisfying
championship of the four, "because it was the most difficult, not only
physically, but mentally."
 2002
Winner—Kevin Sutherland
La Costa Resort and Spa, Carlsbad, California,
U.S.
The unpredictable nature of match play added
significantly to the drama of the 2002 Accenture Match Play Championship. The
Championship winner, Kevin Sutherland, had to get past 2001 British Open
Championship, David Duval, 2001 PGA Champion, David Toms, and three other top-ranked players, including Ryder Cup member Jim Furyk, before defeating high
school rival Scott McCarron in the 36-hole championship match.
 2001 Winner—Steve
Stricker
Metropolitan Golf Club, South Oakleigh, Victoria,
Australia
The 2001 Accenture Match Play Championship
featured the strongest field ever assembled for a golf tournament in Australia.
When the final putt dropped on Sunday, American Steve Stricker stood
triumphant, winner of the million dollar first-place prize and the coveted
Walter Hagen Cup, named after one of golf's greatest match-play competitors.
 2000 Winner—Darren Clarke
La
Costa Resort and Spa, Carlsbad, California, U.S.
The second
Accenture Match Play Championship was one of golf's premier events in 2000 as
the top 64 players in the world competed for the title and the million dollar
first-place prize money. After 33 holes of dramatic match-play competition
against Tiger Woods, Darren Clarke defeated the number-one-seeded player 4 and
3.
 1999 Winner—Jeff Maggert
La
Costa Resort and Spa, Carlsbad, California, U.S.
From Tiger
Woods' explosive first drive, to Jeff Maggert's amazing 20-foot
tournament-winning chip shot, the 1999 Accenture Match Play Championship
introduced the world to its newest global golf event in dramatic fashion. After
defeating six of the best golfers in the world in one-on-one match-play golf,
Jeff Maggert, the 24th ranked golfer in the Official World Golf Rankings, sank an
improbable chip shot from just off the green to close out the first-ever
Accenture Match Play Championship and claim his place in history.
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