Cisco World Match Play Championship

11 Oct 2001 - 14 Oct 2001
Wentworth Club, Surrey, England

At 43, Ian Woosnam becomes the oldest player to win the Cisco World Match Play Championship, two years older than Mark O'Meara was when he defeated Tiger Woods in the 1998 final, he is the first unseeded player to win since Bill Rogers in 1979 and the first to win in three decades (1987 and 1990 were his first two victories).

Round 4: Sunday 14 October 2001

Ian Woosnam vs Padraig Harrington

Result: Woosnam won 2 & 1

Round 3: Saturday 13 October 2001

Lee Westwood vs Ian Woosnam

Result: Woosnam won 10 & 9

Padraig Harrington vs Sam Torrance

Result: Harrington won 4 & 3

Round 2: Friday 12 October 2001

Lee Westwood vs Thomas Bjorn

Result: Westwood won by 1hole(s) on the 36th

Colin Montgomerie vs Ian Woosnam

Result: Woosnam won 4 & 3

Darren Clarke vs Padraig Harrington

Result: Harrington won 5 & 4

Vijay Singh vs Sam Torrance

Result Torrance won by 1hole(s) on the 36th

Round 1: Thursday 11 October 2001

Thomas Bjorn vs Adam Scott

Result Bjorn won 4 & 3

Retief Goosen vs Ian Woosnam

Result: Woosnam won 4 & 3

Padraig Harrington vs Nick Faldo

Result: Harrington won 9 & 8

Sam Torrance vs Seve Ballesteros

Result: Torrance won 3 & 2

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It's called the World Match Play Championship, but with no North Americans in the 12-man field, the title may be a misnomer.

In the absence of Tiger Woods, David Duval and David Toms, winners of three majors this year, the event looks more like the European Match Play Championship. Mike Weir of Bright's Grove, Ont., was the lone North American in the field but he pulled out Tuesday due to the air strikes in Afghanistan.

It's the first time in the 38-year history of the championship that no Americans are in the field. Duval, Toms and John Daly all turned down invitations in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks and subsequent U.S. military strikes on Afghanistan.

England's Lee Westwood said, "It would have been nice to see American players here this week, but I can understand them not wanting to fly as things are at the moment."