It's Geoff Ogilvy versus Paul Casey

in final of World Match-play

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Paul Casey edged past Ross Fisher to become the first English finalist of the World Golf Championships - Accenture Match Play where he will play Geoff Ogilvy who reached his third final in four years with victory over Stewart Cink.
Australia's Ogilvy, winner of the event in 2006 and runner-up in 2007, won 4 and 2 over the American Cink, last year's losing finalist, at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club.
In the all English semi-final, Casey scored a 2 and 1 win over Fisher to reach the 36 hole final.
Only one Englishman had previously reached the last four of this event, with Ian Poulter appearing in the semis in 2005.
Cink had earlier in the day defeated Ernie Els 2 and 1 in the quarter-finals while Ogilvy had ended the run of 19 year old Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy with a 2 and 1 win.
Ogilvy took a one up lead into the par five 11th but he found the lip of a fairway bunker off the tee and then missed a par putt from 14 feet.
Ogilvy turned his game up a notch to take the match by winning four straight holes from the 13th, scoring birdie, birdie, eagle, birdie to go through to his third final in four years.
"When you make birdies like that at the end it's a nice way to finish," Ogilvy said, after setting up a final between two of the 47 European Tour Members who descended on Arizona this week.
The tournament had moved higher into the foothills of the Tortolita mountains from The Gallery Club, its home of the previous two years, and Ogilvy had with Casey travelled from their Whisper Rock Golf Club, their base in Scottsdale, Arizona, to play a practice round two weeks prior to the tournament in order to familiarise themselves with the new course.
It certainly paid dividends for both men and Ogilvy looked forward to a final between friends.
"It will be fun," he said. "We both came down a couple of weeks ago to check out the golf course and if we both ended up in the final that's very coincidental.
"I'm sure the Whisper Rock members will be down in force."
Casey's 4 and 3 win over American Sean O'Hair at the desert course near Tucson and Fisher's 2 and 1 victory over US Ryder Cup hero Justin Leonard ensured a first English finalist and an all Surrey match with Casey from Weybridge and Fisher from Cheam.
Fisher had beaten three Americans - Pat Perez, Jim Furyk and Leonard - en route to the last four but bogeyed the par four opening hole before matching Casey shot for shot over the next four holes.
Casey had not fallen behind in any of his previous matches and was two up after 13 holes when Fisher overshot the 13th green with a chip out of greenside rough on the way to a bogey six.
There were problems for both Englishmen at the 14th but Fisher came off worse, firing out of the cacti on his second shot and into scrub next to a greenside TV camera tower.
He took a drop but the ball was still in amongst low lying cacti and Fisher shot gingerly out of trouble into more conventional rough on the other side of the green.
His fifth shot was much better, to 13 feet, leaving Casey with a fourth shot from the back fringe that he left short.
Fisher then holed his double bogey putt and remarkably escaped with a halved hole as Casey saw his seven foot putt lip out.
Both men got back on track with birdies at the 15th and Fisher cut Casey's lead to one hole with a birdie two at the 16th.
Fisher, though, overcooked his approach shot to the 17th green and Casey capitalised with a 15 foot putt for victory."Ross played some very good golf closing in," said Casey. "I mean, that up and down on 15 was phenomenal. Almost went in the hole. And his birdie on 16, again, great putt. And I was under pressure. So I feel very satisfied to hole that birdie putt to close the match out."
As for facing Ogilvy in the final, Casey said: "We are both members at Whisper Rock in Scottsdale. It will be a kind of like the Whisper Rock Club Championship!"
Fisher performed with distinction on his first appearance in the event and will take on Cink in the Consolation Match for third place. "It's disappointing to lose but to get this far it was very pleasing," said The European Open Champion. "I wanted to take Paul out, but it was a difficult game. He has a great match play record, but I fancied my chances of doing pretty well this week and it just didn't come together. "There was a few shots that I lost there. And when I had chances at the end, I just couldn't take them."
McIlroy, meanwhile, in his first tournament as a professional in the United States, was not downhearted despite being unable to continue his excellent form beyond the quarter-finals.
"Geoff played incredibly well and I needed to get birdies but it just wasn't enough in the end," said McIlroy.
"But 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."
the previous two years.
SEMI-FINALS (18 holes)
G Ogilvy (Australia) bt S Cink (US) 4 and 2.
P Casey (England) bt Ross Fisher (England) 2 and 1.
SUNDAY'S 36-HOLE final
Ogilvy v Casey.
THIRD-PLACE PLAY-OFF
Cink v Risher