Geoff Ogilvy's Flawless Play Lands Him in Accenture Match Play Finals

Just a week ago, close friends and fellow Scottsdale residents Geoff Ogilvy and Paul Casey made the three-hour drive together from Scottsdale to Tucson to check out The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club.

Rarely has a three-hour drive paid off as much as it has Ogilvy and Casey. 

The two close friends will face off against each other in tomorrow’s 36-hole final match to determine the winner of the year’s first World Golf Championship event.

From his first tee shot of the day, Ogilvy went on what is beginning to become one of his trademark streaks of completely flawless golf.

Ogilvy calmly and quietly went about eliminating teen-age phenom Rory McIlroy in the quarterfinals before knocking off Stewart Cink in the semi-finals.

Incredibly, Ogilvy made just one bogey all day while shooting 14-under par over 33 holes.

Although a fairly consistent player over the past few years, Ogilvy has been prone to go on streaks that are nothing short of astonishing.

Over the course of three events in 2008, which included a win at the WGC-CA Championship, Ogilvy did not card a bogey in more than 160 holes.

When Geoff Ogilvy is in the midst of one of his remarkable streaks, there are very few players on the face of the planet that can hope to beat him.

However, flawless play like this inevitably does not last forever and Ogilvy’s streaks tend not to last more than a week or two as if the golf gods decide that they have seen enough of a player perfecting a game that was never meant to be perfected.

Paul Casey took a far less dominant road to tomorrow’s final match against Ogilvy.

Casey defeated Sean O’Hair 4&3 in his morning match.

Although Casey did finish 15 holes at three-under par, he was lent a large helping hand from the food poisoning O’Hair had suffered on Friday night and was still suffering from during his quarter final match on Saturday.

Casey did not play anywhere near his best golf in his afternoon semi-final match against fellow Brit Ross Fisher.

Fortunately for Casey, Fisher spent more time navigating through the cacti than he did in the fairway and Casey was able to finish him off with a birdie on the 17th. 

Ogilvy, who won the event back in 2006, heads into tomorrow’s final match with 16-2 career record in the Accenture World Match Play event.

Ogilvy’s career World Match Play winning percentage of 87.5 is better than that of even Tiger Woods, albeit Woods has played almost double the number of matches.

If Ogilvy’s current streak continues into tomorrow, Paul Casey will surely have his hands full.