Els, Westwood lead World Match Play s-finals
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VIRGINIA WATER (England) - Titleholder Ernie Els overcame a dismal putting performance to forge a 3-up lead over an injured Padraig Harrington on Saturday after 18 holes of their World Match Play semi-final.
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WENTWORTH - Ernie Els proved himself the master of the World Matchplay Championship yesterday when he won a record sixth title, beating England&#39;s Lee Westwood 2-and-1 in the 36-hole final.
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Sun City, South Africa (Sports Network) - Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, the No. 3 and 4 players in the world, posted rounds of two-under-par 70 on Thursday to grab a share of the lead after one round of the Nedbank Golf Challenge.
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Defending champion Ernie Els beat Padraig Harrington 5 and 4 Saturday in Virginia Water, England, to stay on course for a record sixth World Match Play title.
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Defending champion Ernie Els beat Padraig Harrington 5 and 4 yesterday to move into the final of the World Match Play Championship.
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England's Lee Westwood continued his brilliant early season form, shooting a five-under-par 67 to share the lead with South African Anton Haig in the first round of the 2.5-million-dollar Qatar Masters on Thursday.
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VIRGINIA WATER, England  - Ernie Els is rapidly  having to re-assess his season after winning a record sixth  World Match Play Championship at Wentworth Sunday.
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Englishman Lee Westwood is leading after the third round of the Nedbank Challenge in Sun City. Westwood holds a slender one shot lead over South African Retief Goosen after shooting one under par 71 for a three round total of 5 under par.
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South Africa&#39;s Ernie Els is poised to win his first World Golf Championship title and erase the bitter memory of this year&#39;s four Majors as he goes into Sunday&#39;s final round with a two shot lead.
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With the most dramatic gesture of a largely undistinguished final, Ernie Els holed a 20ft birdie putt on the 35th green of the HSBC World Match Play Championship to win the event for a record sixth time.
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Defending champion Ernie Els trailed unheralded Briton Scott Drummond by one hole midway through their first-round match in the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth on Thursday.
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VIRGINIA WATER, England  - Defending champion  Ernie Els beat Padraig Harrington 5&4 and Lee Westwood held off  a brave fightback by Miguel Angel Jimenez to win their World  Match Play semi-finals at Wentworth on Saturday.
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Ernie Els moved up to fifth from eighth in the world rankings issued on Monday after his three-shot victory in the South African Open on Sunday.
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Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Stuart Appleby and Lee Westwood shared the first round lead Thursday in South Africa&#39;s Nedbank Golf Challenge.
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VIRGINIA WATER, England  - Vijay Singh and Ernie  Els, the world's top two players, could not be more confident  going into the World Match Play Championship starting at  Wentworth Thursday.
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Ernie Els took a three shot lead against Padraig Harrington at the HSBC World Match Play at Wentworth today. The South African is three up on the Irishman after 17 holes of their semi-final this afternoon.
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SUN CITY, South Africa (PA) -- Lee Westwood moved into position to capture his first title since September 2003 on Saturday by taking over at the top of the big-money Nedbank Golf Challenge.