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Sunday's final capsules: Accenture Match-Play Championship

Feb. 24, 2008
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Match 63
Tiger Woods defeats Stewart Cink 8 and 7
How Woods won:
The game's No. 1 player made seven birdies and a lone bogey on the 18th hole in the morning to seize complete control of the match at 4 up.

He then added seven more birdies against one bogey in the 11 holes played in the afternoon on the way to the most lopsided victory in the 10-year history of the Accenture Match Play. In all, Woods made 47 birdies and two eagles in the 107 holes he played at the Gallery Golf Club at Dove Mountain this week.

"It's just one of those things," Woods said. "Match play is very fickle. Whatever your opponent does, you have to react to and this week I had to make a lot of birdies." Woods broke things open on this warm, crystal clear afternoon in the Oro Valley when he made three straight birdies beginning at the sixth hole to move to 8 up.

He earned his third Walter Hagen Cup when he staked his approach to 25 inches at the 11th hole in the afternoon. Cink conceded the putt and then attempted his own 10-footer that might have delayed the inevitable and extended the match.

When it missed, Woods had his fourth consecutive PGA TOUR victory and second of the season, as well as his 15th World Golf Championships win.

He also moved past Arnold Palmer into third all-time on the career win list, just one victory behind Ben Hogan and 10 off Jack Nicklaus' total.

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Match 64
Henrik Stenson defeats Justin Leonard 3 and 2
How Stenson won:
Stenson set the tone for the match when he canned a 36-foot putt for eagle on the first hole after Leonard had blasted out of the greenside bunker to 11 feet. When Leonard couldn't save par from just off the front of the green at the second hole, the defending champion had a 2-up advantage. Birdie putts of 17 and 5 feet, respectively, gave the Swede a cushion of 4 up, and Leonard never recovered. The Texan did manage to whittle the deficit to 2 down with a 15-footer for birdie at the ninth hole and a two-putt birdie from 19 feet at the par-5 10th. Stenson, though, held on for the win that would lift him to No. 1 on the European Tour Order of Merit. He now has a 12-2 record at the Accenture Match Play Championship with a win and a third-place finish in his two starts.