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Rorys Slow Start What Hath Finchem Wrought Late Collapse On LPGA E MAIL BRIAN VOLUME 4 ISSUE 8 FEB 25 2013 Game Set Matt WCG Accenture Match Play winner Matt Kuchar TRAVEL PACKAGE GOLF AND COLOMBIA BIRDIES AND BOGOTA Anchor Men So once again the WGC Accenture Match Play turned out to be interesting mostly just to friends and family of the finalists Weve seen this movie before It wasnt Lincoln Or even Tin Cup And once again much of it it belonged on the cutting room floor To blame the lack of compelling drama on the format or the weather or jumping chollas is to miss the point and lose the plot As long as too many top seeds keep playing too many early round matches looking like theyre more concerned about hailing the next NetJet out of town too many forlorn bracketeers will turn their shredders on and their sets off long before the last putt has dropped late Sunday None of which is the fault of surpassing winner Matt Kuchar who in the final unhorsed defending champion Hunter Mahan who had de plaided Ian Poulter in a semifinal No the real news from frost bitten Arizona earlier in the day came when commissioner Tim Finchem chillingly confirmed that his Tour opposes the USGAs proposed anchored putting ban There are people in high golf places who fear this will lead to an unwanted daisy chain of events that could produce runaway bifurcation that could mandate among other things different equipment requirements and eventually different golf balls at different major championships Does anybody really want to go down that road Meanwhile back in the present the disaster of the week in golf was the triple bogey eight snowman snowwoman produced by Ariya Jutanugarn to lose the Honda Thailand LPGA by a shot on the 72nd hole The good news for the womens game Jutanugarn 17 handled the loss with grace She is too talented not to bounce back Brian Hewitt Tim Finchem
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