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Kuchar holds off Mahan, wins first WGC
Matt Kuchar defeated defending champion Hunter Mahan 2 and 1 in the Championship Match of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship at The Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana, Ariz., to win his first World Golf Championship event.
It was the first all-American final in five years at the event, and the matchup made it certain that for the eighth straight Tour event, an American would be hoisting the trophy.
Mahan was attempting to become the second player to ever win consecutive Match-Play Championships. Before Sunday’s match, Mahan had not trailed in the tournament for 169 holes in 11 different matches over the last two years.
Florida-native Matt Kuchar, who was wearing ski-gloves to keep his hands warm between shots, was red hot early in the match — he was four-up through the first eight holes. But Mahan began charging with wins on Nos. 10, 11 and 14 before Kuchar halted his momentum with a 12-foot birdie putt on the 306-yard par-4 No. 15.
Kuchar’s tee shot on the par-3 No. 16 left him behind the grandstands to the left of the green, handing the hole to Mahan a couple shots later. His lead was cut to one with two holes remaining.
Both players drove their balls into the fairway bunker on No. 17 just feet apart, but Mahan drew the worse of the two lies in the sand.
Mahan was unable to make clean contact from the lie, and his approach shot squirted short and right into a bush. Kuchar capitalized on his good lie, sticking his approach to 10 feet. The match was conceded when Mahan failed to hole his pitch shot after punching out of the bush.
The win was the fifth of Kuchar’s career, and his first since his breakthrough win at The Players Championship last May. With the victory, Kuchar took home $1.5 million 550 FedEx cup points (as opposed to the normal 500 points in regular Tour events).
Kuchar was a No. 6 seed from the Hogan Bracket and has now moved to No. 8 in the Official World Golf Rankings.
In the consolation, Jason Day bested match-play aficionado Ian Poulter 1 up to claim third place.
The Tour will move next week to Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., for the Honda Classic, where Rory McIlroy will defend his title.
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Photos from the 2024 RBC Heritage
GolfWRX is on site this week at Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island for the RBC Heritage. Plenty of golfers who competed in the Masters last week will be making the quick turnaround in the Lowcountry of South Carolina as the Heritage is again one of the Tour’s Signature Events.
We have general albums for you to check out, as well as plenty of WITBs — including Justin Thomas and Justin Rose.
We’ll continue to update as more photos flow in from SC.
Check out links to all our photos, below.
General Albums
- 2024 RBC Heritage – Monday #1
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- 2024 RBC Heritage – Tuesday #1
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WITB Albums
- Justin Thomas – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Justin Rose – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Chandler Phillips – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Nick Dunlap – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Thomas Detry – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Austin Eckroat – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Xander Schauffele – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Jason Day – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Will Zalatoris – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Patrick Cantlay – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Ludvig Aberg – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Collin Morikawa – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Sam Burns – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Stephen Jaeger – WITB – 2024 RBC Heritage
Pullout Albums
- Wyndham Clark’s Odyssey putter – 2024 RBC Heritage
- JT’s new Cameron putter – 2024 RBC Heritage
- Justin Thomas testing new Titleist 2 wood – 2024 RBC Heritage
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- Christian Bezuidenhout – testing new Callaway Ti 340 mini driver – 2024 RBC Heritage
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- Byeong Hun An, two new L.A.B. Golf putter builds with “T” alignment – 2024 RBC Heritage
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Troy Vayanos
Feb 25, 2013 at 2:18 pm
Good effort by Matt Kuchar to claim the event. That’s two big titles in the last couples of years he’s captured.
Is a major championship next for him?
Once again match play delivered the upsets just like I thought. The same thing will happen next year again.