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Sunday 2 March 2003PGA Tour · European TourYear in Review
Woods wins WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
La Costa Resort and Spa, Carlsbad, California · Wednesday 26 February to Sunday 2 March 2003 · Tiger Woods’s win no. 36 on the PGA Tour · purse $6,000,000 USD · Accenture
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
11 h 18 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 49° up at noon, and that night a new moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R114°/12°C · wind 23 km/h WSW, gusts 39 · 11.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R214°/11°C · wind 20 km/h WSW, gusts 36 · 9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R315°/11°C · wind 15 km/h WSW, gusts 24 · 2.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R415°/11°C · wind 16 km/h SW, gusts 30 · 0.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R516°/10°C · wind 22 km/h WNW, gusts 36 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- David Toms USAFour down after the morning 18 and 5 down after the first hole of the afternoon; fought back to 1 down with a birdie at the 15th, then missed the fairway at the 17th (35th hole), failed to get up and down and lost 2 and 1 Golf Today: Woods holds off Toms to claim Match Play title (Wayback Machine copy of dead page)
64 started
Same week
PGA Tour event
WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship
La Costa Resort and Spa, La Costa Resort and Spa, Carlsbad, California
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Tiger Woods
Score, to par and runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
2 March 2003
It's pretty cool. It really is pretty cool to have all four. I guess they're all different in their own right, but I'm extremely happy to win this one.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
2 March 2003
And Stevie and I were talking about this last night, if we had to do this every week, I think every pro's playing career would be about ten years.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
2 March 2003
We all have those -- the little guy in the back of your head that's talking to you all the time, putting those negative thoughts in there. But that's a battle within yourself.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiger Woods | ||
| 2 | David Toms | ||
| 3 | Adam Scott | ||
| 4 | Peter Lonard | ||
| T5 | Jay Haas | ||
| T5 | Scott Hoch | ||
| T5 | Darren Clarke | ||
| T5 | Jerry Kelly | ||
| T9 | Nick Price | ||
| T9 | Toshimitsu Izawa | ||
| T9 | Phil Mickelson | ||
| T9 | Jim Furyk | ||
| T9 | Alex Cejka | ||
| T9 | Stephen Leaney | ||
| T9 | Robert Allenby | ||
| T9 | Kevin Sutherland |
The golfer
born 1975-12-30, Cypress, California; USA; turned pro 1996; age 27 that week; tour wins to date: 36; majors to date: 8; world No. 1 that week (OWGR rankBefore as stated by the OWGR player profile events table).
What’s in the bag
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