The World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship gets underway tomorrow in Tuscon. Among the intriguing first round matches are Tiger Woods vs. J.B. Holmes, winner of the FBR Open in Scottsdale two weeks ago in the Jones bracket. If Woods wins and Mike Weir defeats Arron Oberholser, they would meet in a rematch of the Presidents Cup singles last fall. In the Player bracket, former U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy (and former Match Play Championship winner) meets former British Open champ Justin Leonard. In the Snead bracket, two-time comeback player of the year Steve Stricker squares off against Daniel Chopra, who defeated him in a playoff at the Mercedes-Benz Championship to start the 2008 season. Stricker also is a former match play champion. Former U.S. Open champion Jim Furyk takes on Colin Montgomerie and in an all-Irish heritage matchup, defending British Open champion Padraig Harrington meets Jerry Kelly.
Hitting range balls while wondering whatever happened to Al Balding.
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- Mr. Fairway’s love affair with the game of golf began in junior high. He once made his living as a journalist covering high school sports, cops and robbers and politics. Today, Mr. Fairway is a public relations consultant and a widely-published freelance golf writer. His current USGA handicap index is 9.3 and he averages 50-plus rounds a year.