Club: Ritz-Carlton GC at Dove Mountain

Location: Marana, Arizona

Date: Feb 20-26, 2012

Golf Betting Odds: The WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship is one of the annual World Golf Championships for male professional golfers. It is a premier event and is staged in January or February each year. It is sponsored by and named after Accenture, a consulting firm.

From its inauguration in 1999 through 2006 it was hosted every year by La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California except in 2001, when it was hosted by the metropolitan Golf Club in Victoria, Australia.

In 2007 the event moved to The Gallery Club in Marana, Arizona, in a suburb northwest of Tucson, for two years. All three of the individual World Golf Championships events will be played in the United States from 2007, which has attracted criticism from some golfers, including Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, and in the media outside the United States. PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem has responded by insisting that playing in the U.S. is best for golf as more money can be made there than elsewhere.

For 2009, the tournament moved to the Ritz-Carlton, a Jack Nicklaus-designed course at Dove Mountain in Marana.

The Championship is a single-elimination Match- Play event. The field consists of the top 64 players available from the Official Golf Rankings, seeded according to the rankings. The prize money for 2009 was $8.5 million, with the winner taking $1.4 million and the Walter Hagan Cup. Prize money is official on the PGA Tour, the European Tour and the Japanese Tour. All matches leading up to the final match are 18 holes, while the final match was played over 36 holes from 1999 to 2010 and over 18 holes since 2011. In addition, the losers of the semifinal matches play an 18-hole consolation match for third place. The five-day, six-match tournament begins on Wednesday, with a match per day through Friday. The quarterfinals and semifinals are played on Saturday; the finals and third-place match conclude the tournament on Sunday.

This is by far the best tournament to bet all year on the PGA Tour. It’s a preview to the March Madness that lies ahead, 64 will start and it’s win, or go home with 5 days of grueling matches. Be sure to check back the last week of February to bet the 2012 Accenture Match Play Tournament.

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2012 WGC Accenture Match Play Championship Winner - Hunter Mahan Wins Match Play Championship

The 2012 Accenture Match Play Championship came to an end on Sunday at the Ritz-Carlton Gold Course at Dove Mountain in Arizona. The semifinals and the finals were played on Sunday and when all was said and done, Hunter Mahan emerged triumphant, defeating Rory McIroy to take home the championship.

Mahan bested his semifinal opponent Mark Wilson in the morning by a score of 2-and-1 to advance to the final. McIlroy likewise dispatched Lee Westwood in the other semifinal, which pitted the last two remaining No. 1 seeds against one another. McIlroy made it to the final by knocking out Westwood on a score of 3-and-1. Westwood then took on Wilson for third place, where Wilson claimed the bronze by going 1-up during their round.

In the final between Mahan and McIlroy, Mahan went 3-up in the front nine and held on for the win and the title on a final score of 2-and-1.

2011 WGC MAtch Play Championship Winner

Luke Donald spoiled Martin Kaymer's rise to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking by winning the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship on Sunday with a performance so dominant he never played the 18th hole all week.

Not even the snow and sleet could stop Donald.

On a bizarre final day in the high desert, which began with snow covering the fairways, Donald pulled ahead for good with a birdie on the par-5 11th and a par on the next hole, eventually closing out Kaymer on No. 16 for a 3-and-2 victory.

The consolation prize for Kaymer is going to No. 1 in the career, which he assured by reaching the championship match.

Donald was in more dire need of this trophy, however.

It was his first win in America in five years, and it was only his second win worldwide since he captured the 2006 Honda Classic. The 33-year-old Englishman had done just about everything right except win.

He took care of that in a week like no other in the 13-year history of the Accenture Match Play Championship. Donald played only 89 holes in six matches and never trailed in any of them. In fact, he led after 81 of those holes.