England's Paul Casey will face 2006 winner Geoff Ogilvy in today's 36 hole final of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.
Casey beat fellow Englishman Ross Fisher by 2 & 1 while Australian Ogilvy beat America's Stewart Cink by 4 & 2 in yesterday's semi finals.
Earlier in the day Casey had beaten Sean O'Hair ( 4 & 3 ) in their quarter final match, but afterwards it was revealed that O'Hair had suffered through the night with food poisoning. Ogilvy brought to an end Northern Ireland youngster Rory McIlroy's promising start to his golf in America, defeating him by 2 & 1. McIlroy said "I can take a lot out of this week, I played well and I've held my own against some of the best players in the world, so it's been good."
In the other two quarter finals Stewart Cink defeated South Africa's Ernie Els by 2 & 1 and Englishman Fisher had the same margin of victory over Justin Leonard.
Casey now has the chance to be the first player to win the Match Play event who has never trailed in any match in the entire week. Indeed, he has led for 79 of the 80 holes he has played.
Ogilvy has now featured in three of the last four finals, having won in 2006 and finishing runner-up to Henrik Stenson in 2007.
And the two finalists are also neighbours, both having set up home in Arizona and both being members of the same club, Whisper Rock Golf Club.
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