It should be an interesting week for Dustin Johnson at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, however long it lasts.
Johnson is the fourth seed in the Snead bracket and is matched with 13th-seeded Mark Wilson in his opening-round match at 12:25 p.m. (Eastern) Wednesday on the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana, Ariz.
Wilson, a Wisconsin native and North Carolina graduate, has already won twice in the PGA Tour’s opening seven tournaments of 2011 and is the tour’s only multiple winner this year. If Johnson gets through Wilson, he’ll face the winner of the Bubba Watson-Bill Haas match.
Haas, whose caddie is Galivants Ferry native Michael Maness, has been the tour’s most consistent player this year with four top-10s and five top-30s in five events and Watson won the Farmers Insurance Open on Jan. 30, though he withdrew from last week’s Northern Trust Open after the first round citing a pulled stomach muscle.
Johnson could face Tiger Woods in the third round, though Woods would face the major-champions matchup of Padraig Harrington-Geoff Ogilvy in a second-round match if he gets through Thomas Bjorn.
Johnson opened the season with a pair of top-10s but hasn't finished in the top-25 in his past three events.
The seeding is done based on world ranking. Johnson is ranked 14th in the Official World Golf Ranking while Wilson is 53rd.
