Scotland's Colin Montgomerie geared up for next week's Accenture Matchplay with another top-20 finish.
He finished second at the PGA Championship and World Matchplay, both at Wentworth.
Not since Colin Montgomerie in 1999 has any player won both the PGA title and the World Matchplay title at the Surrey venue.
But generally when you're behind in matchplay, you've got to decide on a point at which you are going to take on shots.
Dott fought back with some excellent matchplay snooker to bring the score back to 7-7, but he could never get his nose in front.
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British star Casey, who won the Matchplay in 2006, goes into the final round of the BMW PGA Championship with a three-shot lead over Dane Soren Kjeldsen.
That was followed by a sorry first round exit -- Woods also went out on the same day -- at the WGC Accenture World Matchplay event in Arizona last week.
'Flash' Dunbridge, runner-up in this year's World Matchplay, looked every inch a player who could feature in the latter stages of the tournament as he averaged 96 each time at the oche.
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The Scot explained Harrington was a player "nobody in matchplay golf wants to play - a great competitor", although he failed to win a match in each of the past two Ryder Cups.
Since 1958, when it switched from a matchplay to a strokeplay event, the USPGA has had a host of unheralded winners such as Rich Beem, Shaun Micheel, Mark Brooks, Steve Elkington and Wayne Grady.
Since changing from his Titleist clubs to the Nike brand, he has failed to shine, missing the cut at Abu Dhabi and exiting the WGC Accenture World Matchplay event in Arizona at the first-round stage.
The three-day matchplay event at Rich Harvest Farms near Chicago will begin with four fourball matches followed by four foursomes matches on Friday, with the same pattern on Saturday and 12 singles matches to conclude on Sunday.
The Twenty Ten course architects designed the final three holes almost specifically for this showpiece to test tired bodies and tired minds - but Ross Fisher's superb birdie on the par three 17th was matchplay at its best.
Since then, he's covered some major sporting events: England winning the Ashes in 2005, the return of the England World Cup Rugby Team in 2003 to their Surrey hotel, the World Matchplay Championship at Wentworth, Show jumping at Hickstead, World Championship Darts at Lakeside, Derby Day at Epsom, Tennis at Eastbourne, Farnborough playing at Highbury in the FA Cup, to name a few.
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