2008 WGC-CA Championship

2008 WGC-CA Championship

Tournament information
Dates	March 20–23, 2008
Location	Doral, Florida, U.S.
Course(s)	Doral Golf Resort & Spa
Tour(s)	PGA Tour European Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	7,266
Field	79 players
Cut	None
Prize fund	$8,000,000
Winner's share	$1,350,000
Champion
Geoff Ogilvy
271 (−17)

The 2008 WGC-CA Championship was a golf tournament that was contested from March 20–23 at Doral Golf Resort & Spa in Doral, Florida. It was the ninth WGC-CA Championship tournament, and the second of three World Golf Championships events held in 2008.

Geoff Ogilvy won the tournament to capture his second World Golf Championships title. Tiger Woods was the 3-time defending champion but finished in 5th place.

Field

1. Top 50 players from the Official World Golf Rankings two weeks prior to event
Robert Allenby (2,3), Stephen Ames (2), Stuart Appleby (2), Woody Austin (2,3), Aaron Baddeley (2,3), Ángel Cabrera (2,6), Mark Calcavecchia (2,3), Paul Casey (2,6), K. J. Choi (2,3,4,5), Stewart Cink (2,3,4,5), Tim Clark (2,3), Luke Donald (2), Ernie Els (2,3,6,7), Niclas Fasth (2,6), Jim Furyk (2,3), Sergio García (2,3,6), Retief Goosen (2,6), Richard Green, Søren Hansen (2,6), Charles Howell III (2,3), Trevor Immelman (2), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (2,7,8), Zach Johnson (2,3), Robert Karlsson (2), Martin Kaymer (2,7,8), Justin Leonard (2,4,5), Hunter Mahan (2,3), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4,5), Arron Oberholser (2), Geoff Ogilvy (2,3), Sean O'Hair (2,5), Nick O'Hern (2), Ian Poulter (2), Andrés Romero (2,6), Justin Rose (2,3,6), Rory Sabbatini (2,3), Adam Scott (2,3,7,8), Vijay Singh (2,3,5,7,8), Brandt Snedeker (2,3), Henrik Stenson (2,6,7,8), Richard Sterne (2,6), Steve Stricker (2,3,4,5), Toru Taniguchi (2,10), Scott Verplank (2,3), Boo Weekley (2,3), Mike Weir (2), Lee Westwood (2,6,7,8), Brett Wetterich (3), Tiger Woods (2,3,4,5)

• Pádraig Harrington (2,3,6) did not play.

2. Top 50 players from the Official World Golf Rankings one week prior to event
Nick Dougherty (6), Shingo Katayama (10)

3. Top 30 from the final 2007 PGA Tour FedEx Cup points list
Jonathan Byrd, John Rollins, Heath Slocum, Camilo Villegas

4. Top 10 from the PGA Tour FedEx Cup points list two weeks prior to event
Daniel Chopra, J. B. Holmes (5), Ryuji Imada (5), D. J. Trahan

5. Top 10 from the PGA Tour FedEx Cup points list one week prior to event

6. Top 20 from the final 2007 European Tour Order of Merit
Anders Hansen, Peter Hanson, Grégory Havret, Søren Kjeldsen, Colin Montgomerie, Graeme Storm

7. Top 10 from the European Tour Order of Merit two weeks prior to event
Mark Brown (8), Shiv Chawrasia, Ross Fisher (8)

8. Top 10 from the European Tour Order of Merit one week prior to event
Graeme McDowell, Jeev Milkha Singh

9. Top 3 from the final 2007 Asian Tour Order of Merit
Anton Haig, Liang Wenchong, Chapchai Nirat

10. Top 3 from the final 2007 Japan Golf Tour Order of Merit
Brendan Jones

11. Top 3 from the final 2007 PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit
Craig Parry, Paul Sheehan

• David Smail did not play.

12. Top 3 from the final 2007 Sunshine Tour Order of Merit
James Kingston, Andrew McLardy, Louis Oosthuizen

Round summaries

First round

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	65	−7
	Geoff Ogilvy
3	Stewart Cink	66	−6
T4	Anders Hansen	67	−5
	Phil Mickelson
	Nick O'Hern
	Adam Scott
	Tiger Woods
T9	Mark Calcavecchia	68	−4
	Luke Donald
	Ross Fisher
	Grégory Havret
	Ryuji Imada
	Robert Karlsson
	Martin Kaymer
	Andrés Romero
	Jeev Milkha Singh
	Toru Taniguchi

Second round

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Geoff Ogilvy	65-67=132	−12
2	Tiger Woods	67-66=133	−11
3	Adam Scott	67-68=135	−9
T4	Anders Hansen	67-71=138	−6
	Robert Karlsson	68-70=138
	Jeev Milkha Singh	68-70=138
T7	Mark Calcavecchia	68-71=139	−5
	Miguel Ángel Jiménez	65-74=139
	Steve Stricker	71-68=139
T10	Woody Austin	70-70=140	−4
	K. J. Choi	70-70=140
	Stewart Cink	66-74=140
	Tim Clark	71-69=140
	Luke Donald	68-72=140
	Jim Furyk	69-71=140
	Retief Goosen	71-69=140
	Søren Kjeldsen	69-71=140
	Chapchai Nirat	70-70=140
	Andrés Romero	68-72=140

Third round

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Geoff Ogilvy	65-67-68=200	−16
T2	Jim Furyk	69-71-64=204	−12
	Retief Goosen	71-69-64=204
	Adam Scott	67-68-69=204
	Vijay Singh	73-68-63=204
	Graeme Storm	71-70-63=204
T7	Anders Hansen	67-71-67=205	−11
	Tiger Woods	67-66-72=205
9	Tim Clark	71-69-66=206	−10
10	K. J. Choi	70-70-67=207	−9

Final round

Place	Player	Score	To par	Winnings ($)
1	Geoff Ogilvy	65-67-68-71=271	−17	1,350,000
T2	Jim Furyk	69-71-64-68=272	−16	530,000
	Retief Goosen	71-69-64-68=272
	Vijay Singh	73-68-63-68=272
5	Tiger Woods	67-66-72-68=273	−15	285,000
T6	Nick O'Hern	67-75-67-66=275	−13	198,333
	Graeme Storm	71-70-63-71=275
	Steve Stricker	71-68-73-63=275
T9	Zach Johnson	69-72-67-68=276	−12	147,500
	Adam Scott	67-68-69-72=276

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	5	4	4	3	4	4	4	5	3	5	4	5	3	4	3	4	4	4
Ogilvy	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−18	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17	−17
Furyk	−13	−12	−11	−11	−12	−13	−14	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−14	−15	−15	−16	−16
Goosen	−13	−13	−12	−13	−13	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−15	−15	−16	−16	−16
Singh	−12	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−14	−15	−16	−16	−16	−15	−14	−14	−15	−16	−16
Woods	−12	−13	−12	−11	−11	−12	−12	−13	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−14	−14	−15	−15
O'Hern	−8	−7	−8	−8	−8	−9	−10	−10	−10	−11	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13
Storm	−12	−13	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13
Stricker	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−7	−8	−9	−10	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13
Scott	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14	−13	−13	−12	−12	−12	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Birdie

Bogey

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External links

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