CA Championship player spotlight: Geoff Ogilvy

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Each week during the 2009 season, PGATOUR.COM will spotlight one key player in the field. (Click here to see previous spotlights.) For this week's World Golf Championships-CA Championship, it's FedExCup points leader Geoff Ogilvy, the defending champion of this event and the winner two weeks ago at the Accenture Match Play Championship, the first World Golf Championships event of the season.

Consider this file to be your one-stop source for everything concerning Geoff this week, with links to Geoff-related content, notes and stats, and video and other multimedia elements. Then, once competition starts, we'll update this file every day with Geoff's results and statistics after each round in Doral, Fla.

WEDNESDAY
• Video: Watch Ogilvy discuss his title defense this week in the CA Championship. Video
• Transcript: Here's what Ogilvy said during his news conference at Doral. Transcript

Geoff Ogilvy: Featured content

FAMILY INSIDER. World Golf Hall of Famer Judy Rankin knows a thing or two about Geoff Ogilvy. After all, they're related. Rankin offers an inside look in this exclusive for PGATOUR.COM. Click here for more TOP 100 PLAYERS TO WATCH. In our list of the Top 100 Players to Watch in 2009, find out where Geoff landed. Click here for more PLAYER PAGE. Want more on Geoff? On his PGATOUR.com player page, you can check out his results through the years, or how he ranks on TOUR in certain statistical categories. Click here for player page WORLD GOLF CHAMPION. Less than two weeks ago, Geoff Ogilvy won his third World Golf Championships title in four years. Who's the only guy with more than him? Tiger Woods. Click for more

Geoff Ogilvy: Featured videos

GEOFF AND HIS GUITAR: When he doesn't have a golf club in his hand, Ogilvy can be found sitting at home, strumming his six-string guitar. Click here for more HIS OWN PUTTING GREEN: Why is Geoff so solid when it comes to putting? Maybe because he gets to practice in his own backyard. Click here for more SHOOTING POOL: Finding the bottom of the cup isn't limited to the golf course, at least not for Geoff, who can flash some mad skills at the pool table. Click here for more TOUR DE SCOTTSDALE?: Geoff takes to the streets of his Scottsdale, Ariz., community in a two-wheeler. Click here for more 2006 ACCENTURE MATCH PLAY: Check out highlights of Geoff's first World Golf Championships win in 2006 at La Costa. Click here for more 2008 CA CHAMPIONSHIP: Here are highlights from Geoff's second World Golf Championships win last year at Doral. Click here for more 2009 ACCENTURE MATCH PLAY: Highlights from Geoff's third World Golf Championships victory. Only Tiger Woods has won more WGC events. Click here for more

Take Five

Five things you should know about Geoff Ogilvy

He is helping to introduce Americans to handheld Australian meat pies through the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based MOJO PIES. "Living in the U.S., the No. 1 food I miss is a meat pie," Ogilvy said. When he was approximately 13 years old, he still had not reached five feet in height and weighed just 100 pounds. He was given a cut-down club by his dad at age 7 and progressed to a scratch handicap by age 16. He finished T3 in his first PGA TOUR Start, the Touchstone Energy Tucson Open, and was T2 at the Honda Cliassic in his fifth start. He's a distant relative of Sir Angus Ogilvy, part of Britain's Royal Family, and is an even-more distant relative of Scotland's Robert the Bruce.

Ogilvy in World Golf Championships events

This week at Doral, Geoff Ogilvy will be making his 11th career start in a World Golf Championships event. In his previous 10 starts, he has won three times -- only Tiger Woods has had more success in WGC events. Year Event Course Finish 2009 Accenture Match Play Champ. Ritz-Carlton GC Won 2008 Accenture Match Play Champ. CA Championship Bridgestone Invitational The Gallery at Dove Mountain Doral Golf Resort Firestone CC Lost in first round Won Tied for 68th 2007 Accenture Match Play Champ. CA Championship Bridgestone Invitational The Gallery at Dove Mountain Doral Golf Resort Firestone CC Lost in finals Tied for 3rd Tied for 51st 2006 Accenture Match Play Champ. Bridgestone Invitational La Costa Resort Firestone CC Won Tied for 36th 2005 NEC Invitational Firestone CC Tied for 41st