Monday Pin Placement: Is Ogilvy New King of Match Play?

Every Monday during the PGA Tour season, Monday Pin Placement will run as a wrap-up of the weekend's action. Basically, we'll focus on what you may have missed while you were out grinding on the putting green.

Ogilvy Takes Accenture Handily -- Well, that looked easy.

Geoff Ogilvy dominated the 36-hole final on Sunday against Paul Casey, winning the match 4-and-3, and taking his second Accenture Match Play title in four years. Also in the last four years, Ogilvy has made it to the finals three times, which might just make him the new king of match play over a gentleman named Tiger Woods.

Woods came back to the PGA Tour last week, bringing with him legions of casual golf enthusiasts who only really care about Tiger. Tiger's return was impressive, including a birdie on his first competitive hole since the U.S. Open last year (which he followed with a ho-hum eagle on the second hole). He added another eagle in the first round, as he took down the "Guy That Will Always Be Remembered as Tiger's Comeback Appetizer," Brendan Jones.

Tiger was good in his first match (he lost in round two), but Ogilvy was amazing all week. I wrote this stat in the story of Ogilvy winning, but I think it bears repeating -- Geoff got up and down during his week at Dove Mountain 34 of 38 times. An incredible feat in and of itself, Ogilvy grouped his ability to get the ball in the hole with a solid ball-striking week that really took hold in his third-round match against Camilo Villegas. Ogilvy played the round at 5-under, knocking out the hottest golfer of the first two rounds, and setting up his coast to the championship.

The Ogilvy win is just another storyline that could make this one of the better golf years in recent memory. Tiger's return, a younger player (Ogilvy is just 31) with a major championship winning early, Phil Mickelson's continual roller coaster ride and the full viewing of one Michelle Wie. Speaking of the LPGA ...

Lorena Shows Tiger How It's Done -- No, Lorena Ochoa wasn't coming off some sort of surgery or anything, but she was making her '09 debut at the Honda LPGA Thailand. The top female golfer in the game got a little better in each of her first three rounds (71-69-68) but was still three shots back of Paula Creamer heading to Sunday.

No sweat for Ochoa. She just put together a 6-under 66 in the final round to take the title by three shots and make her one-for-one this season.

Face it, female sports are struggling with the economic downfall, and the LPGA is being hit very hard by sponsors. Having the best golfers play well early and get people interested, including Ochoa, Creamer and even Wie, will help spark some interest from the golf world and possibly keep some of the investors in the game a little longer than usual.

For now the PGA Tour will be fine. Tiger's time away was tough, but his return is a big gift, and now people will be very interested to see how he fares in the coming weeks and months. Hopefully for the LPGA, Ochoa keeps winning as well.

There Was Another PGA Tour Event? Really? -- For PGA Tour members, getting an invitation to the Mayakoba Golf Classic at Riviera Maya-Cancun is like kissing your sister. Yeah, you're getting a little smooch but you'd much rather be necking with a non-family member on the outskirts of Tucson, Ariz.

Mark Wilson didn't mind the sister-kissing, however, as he took his second PGA Tour title on Sunday, beating J.J. Henry by two shots and banking $648,000. The win also jumped the 34-year-old up 112 spots on the FedEx Cup points list and probably got him in the postseason extravaganza.

Not bad for missing out on match play.

Final Round Handshakes ...

-- Speaking of the FedEx Cup, Ogilvy is now leading the darn thing over Kenny Perry comfortably. I'm not one to predict anything, but if Tiger actually is leading this thing by the end of the season I will be very, very impressed (that is, more impressed than if you start your first tournament in eight months with a birdie-eagle).

-- A win on Sunday would have been a PGA Tour first for Casey. The 31-year-old from England has won nine times on the European Tour but never one on this side of the ocean.