The 2014 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship was the 16th

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, held February at The Golf Club at Dove Mountain in

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, northwest of

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. It was the first of four

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. With a field of 64 competitors, the five-day six-round event began on Wednesday, with the semifinals and finals on Sunday.

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won his first WGC title at the 23rd hole of the final match with

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. This was the eighth and final edition of the championship contested in Marana, the host since

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. The tournament moved back to California in

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, held in early May at

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, and went to

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, in March

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. 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

* The average

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of the course was approximately

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. * The only yardage change from

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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

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event. The field consists of the top 64 players available from the

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on February 9, 2014. seeded according to the February 16 rankings. Three of the top four ranked players,

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(ranked #1), Adam Scott (2), and

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(4) chose not to enter and were replaced by Richard Sterne (65),

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(66), and

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(67). Three players were appearing in their first WGC event:

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and

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Bobby Jones bracket

Ben Hogan bracket

Gary Player bracket

Sam Snead bracket

Final Four

Scorecard

''Final match''

Prize money breakdown

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References

External links

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Coverage on the European Tour's official site
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