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Million Man
HSBC World Matchplay Final 2006 - Wentworth - Sunday 17th September. The hotness of the finalist's putters has always been the key to winning this great championship. Wentworth's greens are nothing like they are in May, at the PGA Championship, when poa annua has caused some concern. Come autumn, they are the finest of surfaces, so putting is at its truest art form. On the other hand, even the best need to be giving themselves reasonable chances unless they are on a 40ft an over streak, as rare as a Woods poor week - then again Tiger lost early on .....
Cambell is Heading places
The Final of the 2005 HSBC World Matchplay - Both players in the 2005 World Matchplay Final went to the first tee of the final, exhorting how they had found mental fortitude in all that they had accomplished in 2005. For Campbell gone was the 'brother' he saw in the mirror pre 05, and for McGinley a slow and steady start at the beginning of his career was now coming to fruition.
The 2005 HSBC - The Route to the Final
With Ernie Els sidelined through his injured knee, a hatful of the World's very best deciding that they could not travel to the masterpiece that is Wentworth plus being looked after like a king for the week, the guess for a winner of the 2005 HSBC could only be that, speculation. For every plus, their seemed a minus to a player's CV.
To the Winner £1M
With a new qualification system, still the biggest first prize in golf, and 41 years of history to build on, the 2004 HSBC World Matchplay Final between Lee Westwood and birthday boy (35 today) Ernie Els represented the sort of match that this most prestigious of titles deserved. No doubts, the favoured last 36 would have been Els vs Singh but Westwood is a past winner and has, for the last month, been finding more and more form after his Ryder Cup heroics.
The HSBC World Matchplay Final - a Local Derby
From the first days of this Championship, when Palmer and Co used to (be able to) drive out to Wentworth from Central London, to the later special package of a Mansion, Butler and maid, there had never been a local Derby like this one. Els and Bjorn live on the Wentworth estate and are very much in the same social circle. They know each other well.