Ian Poulter reaches Accenture Match Play final and strengthens Ryder Cup case

By Mark Reason in Tucson Published: 11:37PM GMT twenty February 2010

Majestic: a triumphant Ian Poulter celebrates reaching the Accenture Match Play last after saying off European opposition Sergia Garcia

The alive with Englishman has already surpassed the volume of income indispensable to have the group dual years ago. He will stick on Lee Westwood in the team.

There was a bit of ill feeling after the compare that concerned a line of steer statute on the 7th hole. Garcia felt that Poulter had been guilty of pointy use and said: "He"s the one who has to live with it. I usually told him what I thought but in a great manner."

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Colin Montgomerie, the European captain, and Poulter have additionally had their spats in the past, but Monty will be gurgling over what he has seen this week. Garcia done the semi-finals for the initial time and for the second year using dual Englishman done it by to the semi-finals.

After Poulter had edged Thongchai Jaidee in his sunrise quarter-final with a cool 6-foot putt on the last green, Paul Casey dusted the solitary flourishing American Stewart Cink 5&4. It was a unusual feat by the dual Englishmen and one value creation a great bargain some-more sound about.

Suddenly Sir Nick Faldo"s infancy criticised Ryder Cup picks of dual years ago don"t see utterly so daft. Here were Poulter and Casey personification in the semi-finals of the compare fool around while Darren Clarke strives to urge on his universe ranking of 99. Up in the explanation room Faldo could means a smile.

The usually clouded cover on the setting was the unwashed grey one unconditional in over the mountains. The conditions became so bad that fool around had to be quickly halted in the early stages of the afternoon semi-finals. Poulter said: "It was brutal. It got to the theatre where it was usually laughable."

Garcia felt the matches should have been stopped infancy progressing to concede the continue to move through. There were tops and shanks and duffs in that time that wouldn"t have looked out of place on the fool around ground municipal. Poulter said: "It was usually crazy."

Only Poulter had the intrepidity to tarry the conditions. To fool around the initial eleven holes in 4 underneath standard hugely impressive. It could be a great feeling for the sort of continue he competence see at Celtic Manor in October.

Sadly the English golfers in Arizona this week could win this tournament, make Nelson"s mainstay in the center of the dried and still no one in America would take infancy notice interjection to Mr Selfish"s preference to theatre his TV matter in the center of the tournament.

How could Tiger Woods have the gall to contend on Friday: "Character and goodness are what unequivocally count..I would similar to to appreciate my friends at Accenture and the players in the margin this week for bargain because I"m creation these remarks today."

Er, no. Finding a player in the margin who accepted the timing of Tiger"s remarks is as easy as anticipating an iceberg in Arizona. Poulter was the infancy forgiving, but the immeasurable infancy thought that Tiger was an idiot. The ninth step of Tiger"s twelve step programme to confession appears to be putting his feet in his mouth.

It didn"t infancy assistance that silent afterwards said: "I am dissapoint the approach media treated with colour him similar to he"s a criminal…he didn"t kill anybody, he didn"t do anything illegal… They"ve being carrying on from invocation until now, that"s not right!"

Is this the same Kultida that used to suggest Tiger to "go after them, kill them" when articulate about alternative golfers? Is this the same Kultida who suggested her son to never forgive? As they contend in America, it"s a dual approach street, baby.

On the balmy side of that travel the Europeans are creation Monty"s Ryder Cup preference harder and harder. Just who is the captain going to leave out in October? The actuality that there were 3 Europeans in yesterday"s semi-finals and no Americans is demonstrative of a alternate change of power. In matches in between the dual continents this week the Europeans kick the Americans 8-4.

Poulter said: "You can see at the Ryder Cup and see who the guys are that grub out the scores year in year out. They"re regularly going to be difficult in compare fool around format. Some people similar to cadence play, a little people love compare play." He didn"t say:

"And I"m both people," but he would have been fit in you do so.