As Mickelson and Woods will take most of the attention, Watney will play with Ryan Moore, who is three shots back in fourth place at 11-under par.  Lee Westwood is in fifth place at 10-under with Anthony Kim and Jyoti Randhawa tied for sixth place.  Ernie Els, Ryo Ishikawa, Wen-tang Lin and Martin Kaymere are tied in eighth place at seven-under par, seven shots behind Mickelson.

Watney shot a course-record eight-under par, 64, to open the final World Golf Championship event of the season.

Ryan Moore, Martin Kaymer and Shane Lowry are tied for second place at six-under par.  Woods, Paul Casey, Anthony Kim and Wen-tang Lin are in fifth place, three shots behind Watney.  Rounding out the top 10 are Pat Perez, Matt Kuchar, Nick Dougherty and Jyoti Randhawa, who are tied at four-under par.

Other notables

Phil Mickelson is tied for 13th place after shooting 69 in the first round.  Last week’s World Match Play Championship winner Ross Fisher is tied with Camilo Villegas, Ernie Els, Lee Westwood and three others for 21st place at two-under par.  British Open champion Stewart Cink is at one-under par, while PGA Championship winner Y. E. Yang is tied with Geoff Ogilvy, Ian Poulter and Ryo Ishikawa at even-par.

Choi shot a bogey-free 67 in the final round.  She carded birdies on the first, fifth and seventh holes to get off to a great start.  Choi birdied the 15th hole before sinking the tournament-clinching birdie on the 18th hole.

Tseng shot 68 in the final round.  She made four birdies on the front nine, at the second, fourth, fifth and seventh holes, to shoot 32 on the front side.  Her only bogey came at the 12th hole and she finished the round with a birdie on the 18th hole to fall one shot short of a playoff.  Hjorth birdied six of the first eight holes but needed one more in her round of 67.  She finished with 10 straight pars to finish one shot behind Choi.

Ran Hong finished at four-under par and in fourth place.  Song-Hee Kim took fifth place at four-under par.  Jiyai Shin extended her leads on the Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year races with a sixth place finish.  Brittany Lang tied for seventh place with Se Ri Pak, Anna Nordqvist and Inbee Park.

The LPGA will stay in Asia for another week as the Kintetsu Kashikojima Country Club will host the Mizuno Classic in Shima-shi, Mie, Japan, where Shin is the defending champion.

The PGA TOUR announced that the Viking Classic will start on Sunday morning after the Annandale Country Club received up to two more inches of rain on Friday.  Tournament officials will meet at 10 a.m. to formulate a plan to play the Fall Series tournament.

Kung, who beat Katherine Hull by a shot last year, will face a field with 70 of the top players in golf, including Lorena Ochoa and rookie Jiyai Shin, the Rolex Ranking number one and two players, respectively.  Shin currently leads both the Rolex Player of the Year and Louise Suggs Rolex Rookie of the Year awards, looking to be the first player since Nancy Lopez in 1978 to win both in the same year.  Other top players in the field this week are Cristie Kerr, Paula Creamer, Yani Tseng and In-Kyung Kim.

The tournament will be played on the Ocean Course, a 7,229 yard, par-72 Korean-style course with a view of the ocean.  It was designed by Jack Nicklaus and features long bunkers that follow the fairway.

Fowler was supposed to be teeing it up in the first stages of the PGA TOUR Qualifying Tournament but, with his second place finish last week, he moved into the top 150 on the money list and earned an exemption to the second stage of q-school.  Fowler looks to add on to his money total and get into the top 125 on the money list and earn full playing rights on the 2010 TOUR.

MacKenzie comes into this week much like last season, struggling.  A win would make 2009 a success but he will have to fend off hot players like Fowler.  Also, David Toms finished second last year and would like to notch his first win of the season as well.

Annandale Golf Club hosts the event and will play to 7,199 yards and a par-72.  Jack Nicklaus was the original architect for the course in 1980 and oversaw the remodel in 2006

Fowler, who has played in two PGA TOUR events since turning pro in September, is the latest American phenom to grace the links.  He joins Anthony Kim and Hunter Mahan as part of an American revolution ready to take on the world’s next great crop, including Rory McIlroy and Ryo Ishikawa.

Next up for Fowler, getting his TOUR card to set up what could be a great 2010 season.

Matteson, who bogeyed the final two holes to send the tournament into a playoff, put his approach shot on the second playoff hole to 21-inches for a tap-in birdie.  Fowler and Lovemark could not convert their attempts to settle for pars and a tie for second place.

Matteson played well most of the final round, shooting 68.  After pars on the first three holes, he made an eagle on the fourth hole and birdied the sixth hole.  After a bogey on the seventh hole, Matteson made consecutive birdies on the 11th and 12th holes.  But, Matteson did not finish strong, carding bogeys on the final two holes to fall back into a tie.

Fowler, in his second PGA event as a professional, got off to a great start, capped with a hole-in-one ont he fifth hole.  He opened the round with birdies on the first, second and fourth holes.  After a bogey on the ninth hole, Fowler made three straight birdies.  He made his first bogey on the 13th hole but recovered with a birdie on the next hole.  He did bogey the final hole to get into the playoff.

Lovemark started the final round with birdies on the first two holes.  He bogeyed the eighth hole to finish the side at one-under par.  After a par on the 10th hole, Lovemark made birdies on the 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th and 18th holes to move into position for the playoff.

Tim Clark finished tied for fourth place with Bill Lunde, two shots behind the leaders.  Mike Weir shot 61 in the final round to move into a tie for sixth place with Bryce Molder at 15-under par.  Heath Slocum, Ryan Moore, Alex Cejka, Nicholas Thompson and Chris Stroud tied for eighth place.

Matteson made four birdies on the front nine at the second, fourth, seventh and eighth holes.  He made the turn with birdies on the 10th and 11th holes before carding his only bogey on the 13th hole.  He recovered quickly with birdies on the 14th and 15th holes before finishing with two more birdies on the 17th and 18th holes.

Tied for second place at 13-under par are Tim Clark, rookie Webb Simpson and Chris Stroud.  Rickie Fowler, who held a share of the lead at the start of the day, made a double-bogey on the 17th hole to fall into a tie for fifth place at 12-under par.  He is tied with Ryan Moore, Nick O’Hern, Jamie Lovemark and Bill Lunde.  Justin Leonard and Nicholas Thompson are tied for 10th place at 11-under par, five shots behind Matteson.

Fowler, who is scheduled to enter the PGA TOUR’s qualifying school next week, is making a play to miss that tee time.  He shot a bogey-free 64 in the second round, following an opening round 65.  Fowler started the round with five consecutive pars before making an eagle on the par-4, sixth hole.  He also made birdies on the seventh, 11th, 15th and 18th holes.

Owen also shot 64 but started his round with three straight birdies.  After a bogey on the fourth hole, Owen made birdies on the fifth and sixth holes before finishing the front nine with a bogey on the ninth hole.  He opened the back side with four pars before carding a birdie on the 14th hole and an eagle on the 15th.

Justin Leonard is in third place, one shot behind the leaders.  Nick O’Hern, who led after the first round, shot 68 and is tied for fourth place with Ryan Moore.  Tim Clark, Stephen Ames, Heath Slocum, Chris Stroud and Bryce Molder are tied for sixth place at eight-under par, three shots behind Fowler and Owen.

O’Hern finished the front side at even-par with a birdie on the second hole and a bogey at the sixth.  He then went on a tear of six straight birdies from the 10th hole to the 15th.  After a bogey on the 16th hole, O’Hern made birdies on the 17th and 18th holes to take the lead at seven-under par.

Slocum opened the tournament with three straight pars and then made birdies on five of the next seven holes.  He finished with birdies on the 15th and 18th holes, with a bogey on the 17th.  Heintz started on the 10th hole with a birdie.  He added birdies on the 11th, 13th and 14th hole before his only bogey of the day on the 15th hole.  After the turn, Heintz made birdies on the first, third and fourth holes before finishing with pars.

Rickie Fowler seems to be comfortable on the PGA TOUR as he is tied for fourth place after the first round in his second event since turning pro in September.  Fowler is tied with Rory Sabbatini, D. A. Points and Greg Owen at five-under par.  There is a 15 player tie for eighth place with rounds of 66, four-under par.  In that group are veterans Justin Leonard, Mike Weir and Stephen Ames.  Also tied at four-under par are Ryan Moore, Pat Perez, Tim Petrovic, Jeff Klauk, Paul Goydos, Bill Lunde, Ricky Barnes, Spencer Levin, Brad Adamonis, Billy Mayfair, Nicholas Thompson and Ben Crane.

Beckman will have to fight back a solid field with players like Rory Sabbatini, John Rollins and Mike Weir.  Also in the field this week are Presidents Cup captain Fred Couples, Davis Love III and Justin Leonard.

Grayhawk Golf Club is a par-70, 7,125 yard layout set on a desert landscape with a natural creek that runs throughout, draining into a lake between the 10th and 18th holes.  The Raptor Course was designed by Tom Fazio in 1995 and has played host to this event for its three years on the PGA TOUR.

Laird held the lead outright with three holes to play but a bogey on the 17th hole dropped him into a tie with Campbell.  McNeill joined the group with a birdie on the final hole.

All three players pared the first sudden-death hole.  Campbell was eliminated from the playoff after a bogey on the par-3, 17th hole, while Laird and McNeill moved on with pars.  McNeill’s birdie attempt from 26 feet on the third playoff hole missed by three feet.  Laird made his birdie for the win.

Laird had a slow start with a bogey on the second hole.  He got the shot back on the fourth hole with a birdie and added birdies on the sixth, seventh and ninth holes to finish the front nine at three-under par.  A birdie on the 16th hole put Laird in the lead but he would make bogey on the 17th hole to finish at three-under for the day and tied for the lead.

McNeill shot 67 in the final round.  He was two-under through nine holes, with birdies on the third, sixth and ninth holes with a bogey at the fifth hole.  After a birdie on the 11th hole, McNeill slipped with a bogey on the 14th hole.  He would recover with a birdie on the par-5, 16th hole before making the critical birdie on the final hole to get into the playoff.

Campbell, who shared the lead at the start of the round, shot a two-under par, 69 on Sunday.  He finished the front side at one-under par with birdies on the first and fifth holes with a bogey on the fourth.  After a bogey on the 12th hole, Campbell regrouped to finish with birdies on the 13th and 16th holes to qualify for the playoff.

Jim Furyk and Jeff Klauk finished tied for fourth place, one shot out of the playoff.  Furyk shot a bogey-free 62 in the final round with nine birdies on the day.  Klauk made bogey on the 17th hole that cost him a spot in the playoff.

Charley Hoffman finished in sixth place with seven players a shot behind him in seventh place.  Tied for seventh were Ryan Moore, Andres Romero, Matt Kuchar, Tim Petrovic, D. J. Trahan, Rickie Fowler and Tom Pernice, Jr.

Piercy shot a six-under par, 65, to move up from seventh place.  He started the day with birdies on the first and fifth holes before his only bogey at the sixth hole.  Piercy would get on a roll with birdies on the ninth and 10th holes, adding three more on the 13th, 15th and 16th holes.

Campbell, who started the day with a share of the lead, shot a four-under par, 67, to finish tied at 17-under par.  He was one-under par through 11 holes, with a birdie on the sixth hole.  Campbell would eagle the par-4, 12th hole and birdie the 13th and 15th holes.  A double-bogey on the 16th hole pulled Campbell back to the field but a birdie on the final hole tied him with Piercy.

Martin Laird is in third place after shooting 67 in the third round.  George McNeill, Jason Bohn, Jeff Klauk and Bob Heintz are tied for fourth place at 15-under par, two shots behind the leaders.  Troy Matteson, who shared the lead at the start of the round, is tied for eighth place with Tom Pernice, Jr. and Charley Hoffman.

Matteson, who shared the lead at the start of the round, birdied the 10th hole, his first of the day.  He made bogeys on the 11th and 14th holes with a birdie on the 12th hole to finish the first nine at even-par.  Matteson carded four birdies on the next nine, at the second, fifth, seventh and ninth holes, to regain a share of the lead.

Campbell started the day tied for 26th place.  He started on the 10th hole with a birdie.  After pars on the 11th and 12th holes, Campbell made birdies on four of the next five holes.  After the turn, he made birdies on the third and sixth holes before finishing the day with an eagle on the par-5, ninth hole.

Kuchar, Moore, Laird and Heintz are tied for third place at 12-under par.  Rickie Fowler shot 64 in the second round to move up from 26th into a tie for seventh place at 11-under par with Jim Furyk, Scott Piercy and first round co-leader Tom Pernice, Jr.

Pernice was bogey-free in his opening round of 62.  He started on the 10th hole with a par and then made birdies on five of the next six holes.  After the turn, Pernice birdied the second and third hole before finishing with birdies on the eighth and ninth holes.

Matteson made four birdies on the front nine, at the second, third, seventh and ninth holes.  He birdied the 11th hole and then made four straight birdies from the 13th to 16th holes.  A bogey on the 17th hole was made up for with a birdie on the final hole.

Levin started on the 10th hole with a birdie.  He made birdies on the 13th and 15th holes with an eagle on the 16th to finish the first nine at five-under par.  After pars on the first and second holes, Levin made birdies on the third and fourth holes.  He took his share of the lead with birdies on the eighth and ninth holes.

Bob Heintz and Martin Laird are tied for fourth place at eight-under par with rounds of 63.  Jim Furyk shot 64 and is tied with Scott Piercy for sixth place.  Tim Petrovic, Jeff Klauk, Kirk Triplett, Robert Garrigus and Briny Baird are tied for eighth place at six-under par.

Turnesa will have to fend off some red-hot players coming off an exciting Presidents Cup, including Anthony Kim, Hunter Mahan and Jim Furyk.  Also in the field this week are Tim Clark, Steve Marino, Rory Sabbatini and Matt Kuchar, who won two weeks ago at the Turning Stone Resort Championship and finished second here last year.

The TPC Summerlin course was built in 1991 and was originally developed by the Howard Hughes Corporation.  The course is now owned and operated by PGA TOUR Golf Course Properties, Inc.  Designed by Bobby Weed, with Fuzzy Zoeller as the player consultant, TPC Summerlin is a 7,243 yard, par-72 course that is listed as one of “America’s Best” golf courses by Golf Digest.  Ranking in the “Top 100 Modern Golf Courses in the United States,” TPC Summerlin is a certified in the Audubon Society of New York State’s Cooperative Sanctuary Program.

The U. S. team won six of the 12 matches on Sunday, with two ending all-square.  Woods and Phil Mickelson were undefeated throughout the week to lead the Americans.  For the International team, Vijay Singh had the best record, going 2-0-3, while, Camilo Villegas was the only player on either team to not pick up a point.  Only two matches ended all-square on Sunday.  Singh tied Lucas Glover and Mike Weir halved Justin Leonard.

U. S. victories

The singles matches started off with Hunter Mahan playing Camilo Villegas.  Mahan won 2-and-1 for his second victory of the week.  Stewart Cink, who asked captain Fred Couples for an early tee time, beat Adam Scott 4-and-3.  Anthony Kim outplayed Robert Allenby for a 5-and-3 win.  Sean O’Hair finished strong with an impressive  6-and-4 victory over Ernie Els.  As mentioned earlier, Woods beat Yang and Mickelson defeated Retief Goosen 2-and-1.

International singles wins

Finishing strong, Geoff Ogilvy handed Steve Stricker his only loss of the week with a 2-and-1 victory.  Ryo Ishikawa, the youngest Presidents Cup player ever at 19 years old, finished off a memorable week with a 2-and-1 victory over Kenny Perry.  And, Tim Clark beat Zach Johnson 4-and-3.

Day three will have Foursomes in the morning and Fourball in the afternoon.  Starting things off will be Phil Mickelson and Sean O’Hair playing Retief Goosen and Camilo Villegas.  Justin Leonard and Jim Furyk will play Ernie Els and Adam Scott.  Hunter Mahan will team with Stewart Cink to face Vijay Singh and Robert Allenby.  Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker will play Mike Weir and Tim Clark.  Kenny Perry and Zach Johnson will face off against Y. E. Yang and Ryo Ishikawa.

Americans take three in Fourball

The American team wins came with Mickelson partnering Leonard.  Playing Goosen and Scott, Leonard helped grab an early lead with a birdie on the first hole.  Scott brought his team back to even on the fourth hole and Goosen put them one-up with a birdie on the fifth hole.  Mickelson made back-to-back birdies on the sixth and seventh holes to put the Americans back on top.  The match went all-square when Scott made a birdie on the 12th hole but Mickelson reclaimed the lead on the next hole.  Leonard put the match out of reach with birdies on the 14th and 16th holes for a 3-up lead.

Woods and Stricker are proving to be a lethal pair as they beat Ogilvy and Cabrera 5-up in Foursomes.  Both Woods and Stricker made birdies on the first hole to grab the quick lead.  Cabrera brought the match all-square on the third hole but Stricker made birdie on the fifth hole to put the Americans back on top.  Woods made birdie on the sixth and eighth holes to give his team a 3-up advantage.  After halving five straight holes, Stricker won the match with birdies on the 14th and 15th holes.

The other American victory came when Johnson and Mahan beat Villegas and Allenby 2-up.  The Americans took the lead on the second hole with a Mahan birdie.  Villegas got his team back to all-square on the fifth hole but Mahan birdied the sixth to give the Americans a lead they would not relinquish.  Johnson won the 10th hole for a 2-up lead.  Villegas narrowed the gap with a birdie on the 13th hole but, Johnson won the 14th to put the Americans back up two before the International team ran out of holes.

International team wins

The one blowout for the International team was when Ishikawa and Yang partnered to beat Perry and O’Hair 4-up.  Yang gave his team the lead with a birdie on the first hole and Ishikawa won the second hole for a 2-up lead after two holes.  The pair won the fourth and sixth holes to go 4-up before the Americans came to life with birdies from Perry to take the eighth and ninth holes.  Ishikawa and Perry split the 11th and 12th holes, respectively, to keep the match at 2-up for the International team.  Both Yang and Ishikawa made birdies on the 13th hole to go back up three holes with five to play.  Yang added another birdie on the 14th and halved the 15th to win the match.

Els and Weir won the last two holes to come from behind to beat Furyk and Kim.  Weir made a birdie on the second hole to give his team the early lead.  Furyk quickly turned the tide with birdies on the fourth and fifth holes but, Els answered with a birdie of his own on the sixth hole to even the match.  Kim’s birdie on the eighth hole gave the Americans the lead through the 12th hole.  Weir squared the match on the 13th hole but Furyk birdied the 14th to reclaim the lead with three holes to play.  After pars halved the 16th hole, Weir made a birdie on the 17th and Els made birdie on the 18th to give the International team another win.

Clark, playing with Singh, made eagle on the 18th hole to give his team their third victory of the day.  Americans  Glover and Cink birdied the first hole for the early edge.  After Clark squared the match on the sixth hole, Cink birdied the seventh hole to give his team a 1-up lead.  After Clark squared the match on the ninth hole, the International team took their first lead with a birdie from Singh on the 10th hole.  Cink birdied the 14th hole and Golver birdie the 16th hole to give the Americans a 1-up lead with two hole to play.  Both Singh and Clark birdied the 17th for a win and, after two perfect shots, Clark rolled the 15-foot eagle putt in for the win.

The team of Phil Mickelson and Anthony Kim got the Americans off to a solid start with a 3-up win over Mike Weir and Tim Clark.  Weir and Clark had a one hole lead through 12 holes but birdies on the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th holes gave Mickelson and Kim a comeback win.

Ernie Els and Adam Scott, who was captain Greg Norman’s pick, handled the team of Hunter Mahan and Sean O’Hair with a 2-up victory.  Els and Scott were up from the start and pulled ahead for good with birdies on the 16th and 17th holes.

Vijay Singh and Robert Allenby beat a pair of major winners in Lucas Golver and Stewart Cink.  After halving the first two holes, Singh and Allenby took the lead with a birdie on the third hole.  Glover and Cink stayed close and pulled all-square with a birdie on the 16th hole but, the Singh/Allenby team retook the lead with a birdie of their own on the 17th hole.

Angel Cabrera and Camilo Villegas took the early lead from Kenny Perry and Zach Johnson with a birdie on the second hole.  The Americans pulled all-square on the next hole and took the lead with a par on the fifth hole.  The match was all-square with three holes to play when the Americans birdied the 16th hole to take the lead.  Perry and Johnson won the match when Cabrera and Villegas conceded the final hole.

Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker had the most dominating win of the day, defeating Geoff Ogilvy and Ryo Ishikawa 6-up.  After pars on the first hole, Woods and Stricker won the second, third, sixth, ninth, 10th, 12th and 14th holes.

The final match between Americans Jim Furyk and Justin Leonard versus the International team of Retief Goosen and Y. E. Yang finished all-square.  Goosen and Yang were 3-up through five holes but lost the lead on the back nine.  Furyk and Leonard birdied the 13th and pared the 15th hole to go 2-up with three holes to play.  But, birdies on the 17th and 18th holes by Goosen and Yang pulled the match back to even.

A team event similar to the Ryder Cup, the Presidents Cup pits America’s best golfers against an International team with players from Australia, Europe, South America and Canada.  The event starts with Foursomes, where players play the same ball and the match is scored in a match play format.  On Friday, the teams will play Four-Ball, a match play format where teams of two golfers play their own ball and card the lowest score.  Saturday players will play morning and afternoon match-ups in both Foursome and Four-Ball formats.  For the final day, players will face off head-to-head in a match play format.

Harden Park Golf Course is one of the premier public golf courses in the country, voted by Golf Digest as one of the best places to play in 2008 and 2009.  The course has gone through an extensive renovation since 2002 to restore the world-class layout for events like this week’s Presidents Cup.  Located on Lake Merced, the course was designed by architect Willie Watson in 1925 and still follows the original layout and measures to 7,137 yards and plays to a par-71.

Thursday Foursomes

The International Team will put Tim Clark and Mike Weir against Anthony Kim and Phil Mickelson, reuniting their Ryder Cup partnership.  Kim, a Presidents Cup rookie, will add some fire to Mickelson as they face solid ball strikers Clark and Weir.

Adam Scott is teamed up with Ernie Els for the International Team as they are set to face two of Americas youngest stars – Hunter Mahan and Sean O’Hair.

Vijay Singh and Robert Allenby face off against a pair of 2009 major champions Lucas Glover (U. S. Open) and Stewart Cink (British Open). Singh is coming off a rocky season after knee surgery in January but, the Fijian is always a threat.

Norman paired two South Americans – Angel Cabrera and Camilo Villegas – together to face Kenny Perry and Zach Johnson.  Cabrera had a great season with a Masters win but Perry and Johnson did too with four wins in 2009, combined.

Geoff Ogilvy and Ryo Ishikawa will face off against Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker in what will be the most watched matchup.  Ogilvy is a great match play golfer and the 18-year-old Ishikawa is coming off his fourth win of the season.  Woods and Stricker look like a solid pair and could be unbeatable.

In the last match of the day, Retief Goosen is playing with 2009 PGA Championship winner Y. E. Yang as they tee it up against veterans Jim Furyk and Justin Leonard.

Check out more of the final round’s action here.