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23 - 27 Feb 2000
La Costa Resort & Spa, Carlsbad, CA, USA
The field for the WGC-Andersen Consulting Match Play will be 64 players, comprising the top 64 available players from the Official World Rankings as of Monday, February 14, 2000.
La Costa Resort & Spa
Darren Clarke took on the best in the world and won. An outstanding week culminated in the Ulsterman beating the World Number One Tiger Woods by 4 and 3 to win the first World Golf Championship of the year – The Andersen Consulting Matchplay.
Thomas Björn clinched a dramatic victory over Colin Montgomerie at the fifth extra-hole to join four other European Tour Members in the last 16 of the WGC - Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship at La Costa.
Eight European Tour members have so far successfully progressed to the second round of the World Golf Championships – Andersen Consulting Match Play at La Costa, California with Colin Montgomerie and Thomas Bjorn still to complete their first round matches after play was suspended due to torrential rain.
Placing Euro DollarsChampion 1,015,227 1,000,000Runner-Up 507,613 500,000Third Place 406,091 400,000Fourth Place 304,568 300,000Quarter-Finalists 152,284 150,000Third Round 76,142 75,000Second Round 50,761 50,000First Round 25,380 25,000
Wednesday, February 23
Darren Clarke completed a splendid days golf with a birdie three on the 16th hole to defeat World number 2 David Duval in the semi-final of the WGC Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship, and set up a Final with Tiger Woods who was eight under par in his 5&4 victory
On another enthralling day's play at La Costa, a trio of European Tour members Paul Lawrie, Miguel Angel Jiménez, and Darren Clarke - found success in the third round of the Andersen Consulting Match Play Championship, and move on to Saturday's Quarter Finals stage.
14 European Tour Members - Thomas Björn, Angel Cabrera, Michael Campbell, Darren Clarke, Ernie Els, Sergio Garcia, Retief Goosen, Padraig Harrington, Miguel Angel Jiménez, Bernhard Langer, Paul Lawrie, Colin Montgomerie, José Maria Olazábal and Lee Westwood - will lead the European Tour challenge in the World Golf Championships- Andersen Consulting
