Geoff Ogilvy

With two World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championships to his credit, the 2006 U.S. Open champion is a player to be reckoned with at Harding Park. To get a sense of Geoff's Ogilvy's competitive spirit, you only have to know that he is a passionate follower of Australian Rules Football which, to the casual observer, looks like organized mayhem in short pants. As a youngster growing up in sports-mad Australia, Ogilvy was introduced to golf at an early age but was so skilled at other sports that he didn't narrow his focus until he was 17. After all, there were too many other sports at both the local and national levels where he could win medals, which is just what he did. He won the 2008 Australian Open but by then he had established himself on the PGA TOUR, where he had six victories coming into The Presidents Cup, including the 2006 U.S. Open. It cannot be good news for the American side that two of those victories came at this year's season-opening, select-field Mercedes-Benz Championship and the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship for the second time. He brings a 2-3-0 overall record to this year's Matches, his second appearance.

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