This week: WGC-Accenture Match Play Championships, Wednesday through Sunday, Ritz-Carlton Golf Club of Dove Mountain, Marana, Ariz.

Seed: 13th in the Bobby Jones Bracket.

First round: Defeated No. 4 seed K.J. Choi, 2 and 1.

Recap: Thirteen double-digit seeds, including Stanley, posted upset victories Tuesday. And five of them came in the Jones bracket. Choi took a 1-up lead when he eagled the par-5 13th hole, but Stanley ran off a three-hole string of wins, starting when he tried to drive the green on the par-4 15th, got up and down and made an 8-footer for birdie. He then watched …

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This week: WGC-Accenture Match Play Championships, Wednesday through Sunday, Ritz-Carlton Golf Club of Dove Mountain, Marana, Ariz.

Seed: 13th in the Bobby Jones Bracket.

Opponent: Fourth-seeded K.J. Choi.

Skinny: This is Stanley’s first time in the WGC match play tournament, but he is no stranger to the format. He was a member of the 2007 U.S. Walker Cup team that won in Northern Ireland. He went 0-2 in two sessions of singles matches (and was 0-3 for the week).

Tee time Wednesday: 9:45 a.m. PST.

Seeded 13th, Gig Harbor’s Kyle Stanley probably would not want it any other way in his first WGC-Accenture Match Play Championships.

That is the neighborhood in which his beloved Gonzaga men’s basketball team is annually seeded for the NCAA tournament.

Stanley is in the Bobby Jones bracket, and will play No. 4 K.J. Choi in his first match.

He goes off at 11:45 a.m. PST on Wednesday – just ahead of Tiger Woods, who plays Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano.

The Bobby Jones bracket has a blend of bombers (Stanley, Dustin Johnson, Adam Scott) and 40-something golfers (Choi, Jim Furyk, Thomas Bjorn).

Choi …

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This week: Northern Trust Open, Thursday through Sunday, Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Stanley’s fourth-round score: 1-over-par 72.

Moore’s fourth-round score: 3-over 74.

Position: Moore (1-under 283) tied for 17th, and Stanley (even-par 288) tied for 24th – all behind winner Bill Haas (277), who defeated Keegan Bradley and Phil Mickelson in a sudden-death playoff.

Recap: For most of the afternoon, Moore lurked in contention just a couple shots behind the leaders. Then he ran out of steam, finishing with four bogeys in his final five holes – including three-putts at No. 17 (from 30 feet) and …

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This week: Northern Trust Open, Thursday through Sunday, Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Moore’s third-round score: 3-under-par 68.

Stanley’s third-round score: 1-under 70.

Position: Moore (4-under 209) is tied for ninth, and Stanley (1-under 212) is tied for 20th – all trailing co-leaders Keegan Bradley and Phil Mickelson (7-under 206).

Recap: Moore would tell you he is at his best when his wedge game is sharp. It was certainly that Saturday on a very difficult layout. He pitched in from 25 yards in front of the green at the par-4 fifth hole for birdie, then converted an even harder …

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This week: Northern Trust Open, Thursday through Sunday, Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Stanley’s second-round score: 3-under-par 68.

Moore’s second-round score: 2-under 69.

Position: Moore (1-under 141) is tied for 21st, and Stanley (even-par 142) is tied for 28th – all trailing leader Phil Mickelson (6-under 136).

Recap: When you hit fairways, and have pitching wedge approach shots into some of these par-4 holes like Stanley did Friday, you can make birdies. He did that, hitting it close from 135 yards on No. 3 (10-foot putt for birdie) and No. 9 (3-footer) to close his round. …

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This week: Northern Trust Open, Thursday through Sunday, Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, Calif.

Stanley’s first-round score: 3-over-par 74.

Moore’s first-round score: 1-over through 15 holes.

Position: Moore is tied for 37th, and Stanley is tied for 80th – all trailing leader Phil Mickelson (66).

Recap: A rough five-hole stretch in the afternoon sent Stanley tumbling down the leaderboard. He registered bogeys at the fourth, fifth and sixth holes, then could not advance his ball out of a fairway bunker at No. 8, leading to a triple bogey to fall to 5-over. He did have late birdies, including a near-ace …

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This week: Northern Trust Open, Thursday through Sunday, Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, Calif.

World rankings: Stanley is 52nd, and Moore is 67th.

2012 earnings: Stanley has $1.79 million (No. 1 on the PGA Tour), and Moore has $101,672 (83rd on the PGA Tour).

Last tournament: Moore recorded a season-best, tied-for-20th finish at last week’s AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am (7-under-par 279), but fell out of the field for the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championships. The Cascade Christian product did lead the field in putting last week – a good sign that he might be emerging from his slumbering start. … …

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