WGC ACCENTURE MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP MEDIA DAY

August 29, 2001

Michael Garten

Gary Glaser

Steve Stricker

Don Tucker

MICHAEL GARTEN: Thank you very much. Let me start by saying a sincere thank you to all the members of the media that are here with us today. We very much appreciate it on behalf of the Championship office, your participation and your attendance at today's event. It really helps us to promote and build our event for next February. I'd also like to say thank you to all the different corporate sponsors that have joined us this morning and in particular we'd like to say a special thank you to Mike Nolan from Accenture, Julie Rosenthal, and Don Tucker who works here and actually lives in San Diego. I appreciate your being here as well. Last but not least I want to say thank to you La Costa Resort and Spa. There are a number of folks in this room that are part of their staff that are wonderful to work with on a daily basis, and we always appreciate their hard work and effort in partnership with us to produce not only the event like this, but the Championship itself. Just a couple of comments in regard to February 2002. First and foremost I want to say we at the Championship Office staff, including myself, we're really excited to be back not only in Southern California buy in San Diego, California and here at La Costa Resort and Spa. I want to make every effort within reason that we possibly can to have the success we have had in both '99 and 2000 here at La Costa Resort and Spa. So we're excited to be back. Secondly, I just wanted to make mention one particular area that we're really making a big push to improve upon, and that is the sale of tickets for this event. And a couple of notes on that. In the media kit there is some information for any of you that are interested in the details, and let me highlight a couple of items that I think are important. The ticket package for this event is $100 and it's for the week of the Championship. It includes an individual ticket for Monday and Tuesday's practice rounds as well as the Wednesday through Sunday competitive rounds. There's also a couple of promotional notes that the first 2,500 buyers receive a series of commemorative golf balls that commemorate World Golf Championship Series of events as well as an Accenture Match Play Championship event golf towel. Another note is that the ticket package paid with an American Express card receives a 10% discount, so it would be $90 for the week. So we'd like to think there is some value there for those golf fans in San Diego as well as Southern California. With that said, you will have the opportunity for questions after the panel is finished and after we have had Steve Stricker's teleconference. If anybody has any questions that are relative please freely free to ask. Thank you. (APPLAUSE) .

DON TUCKER: Thank you. On behalf of the 75,000 employees of Accenture in Southern California or around the world, we thank you for taking the time to come here this morning to be with us, to kick off this magnificent event. This is the fourth edition of the World Golf Championships Accenture Match Play Championship. We're very proud to be a part of it. Accenture does have a long history of sponsoring local golf. In 1995, 1997 we sponsored the Accenture World Championship of Golf. And this was a tremendous event for us. We're very proud of the results of that, very proud of the performance. What we believe is something to be very proud of and that was to bring Match Play back into the world of golf, really bring its popularity (inaudible) so we're very proud of that goal and very proud of our association with it. The most recent golf partnership, the International Federation of PGA Tours has helped us to make the World Golf Championships and the Accenture Match Play Championship a reality. As I said, this reflects our continuing commitment to the world of golf on a local level. Of course, golf is not our primary business. As you might know, we're a global leader in management information technology. We have worked with the world's most successful organizations helping them to create their future. We do it with information technology. We do it for organizations again on a world level. The World Golf Championships featuring the world's best players, playing the world's best courses, sanctioned by the golf governing bodies really parallels, we believe, our business commitment. That is the commitment associated with delivering excellence to our clients, serving their needs on a global scale. Our connection with the World Golf Championships is a very powerful means to communicate the attributes of our brand to those who take an interest in (inaudible). Fortunately we feel the future of this event is very, very bright. And we're confident that it is going to continue to be a yearly format for a long time to come. Among the many locations around the world there are selected World Golf Championships that really stand out, world class destinations and a community with the wherewithal and the desire to really be center stage. The reputation has been earned by this community (inaudible). We believe the combination of such enthusiastic local support, high caliber competition, that have been established at the Accenture Match Play Championship, is really unparalleled in the world. We hope that you, our friends in the media, will take advantage of the opportunities here over the next few months; certainly as they relate to this tournament, opportunities to thank the readers and thank the viewers to really showcase the vitality of the area. We're very proud to be a part of this event; very, very proud to work with you in communicating the news of the event of 2002. We very much look forward to seeing you in February. (APPLAUSE)

GARY GLASER: Thank you, James. It is very important that all the guests here today know how proud we are to be the host of the event. We'd like to thank Accenture and the World Golf Championships team for being wonderful partners. We have had some great integrations and great moments over the past three years and we look forward to the future of them. On behalf all of our 1001 employees, we look forward to the future and we thank all the media for their participation. If there be any questions regarding the golf course, or anything on how we integrate, again after the teleconference, I will be here and available for questions. Thank you for attending today. (Applause)

STEVE STRICKER: How are you doing?

STEVE STRICKER: Well, it meant a lot. That was my biggest win thus far. I really keep looking back at that week over there in Australia and it was a great week for me and my family. It was just a very special win to win a World Golf Championship, the Accenture Match Play Championship, it meant a lot. And I look forward to hopefully getting the chance to defend the title.

STEVE STRICKER: In Match Play for me it's totally different. It's to the point where I try to use it to my advantage as much as I could, because when you make a par out of the trees or in a difficult situation, it really puts your opponent in a tough situation mentally, for sure, it wears him out if you do it two or three times during the course of a round. So you can kind of use it to your advantage, it almost gives you the uppe rhand or momentum. I kind of would feel that things would switch my way if I made a recovery shot out of trouble, ended up tying the winning hole where you can really use it to your advantage. In stroke-play it is a little bit different where if you do hit some bad shots, you know, they tend to get you down a little bit more. Even though you recover from them, I mean, it kind of wears on you as the day goes along. Where in Match Play you can kind of use it to your advantage.

STEVE STRICKER: Well, consciously I wanted to back it up a little bit. I wanted to do it the following week right in Phoenix. I had a good week the following week in Phoenix, having a top-10 finish, but I really wanted to win as the season got going, you know, through the rest of the season I wanted to add another win. I still have an opportunity to do that. The season isn't over. But probably subconsciously, you know, you may let down a little bit, but I am always trying to tell myself that I got to keep playing hard and trying to win again and trying to get in contention. I am sure there's things there that, you know, you really don't even realize that are going on in your head, but I have been trying to back it up trying to play well the whole season.

STEVE STRICKER: The Match Play event?

STEVE STRICKER: Well I hope it continues to grow. And it's a tournament where you have seen over the course of its history, you know, although it's short, you know, anybody can win just because it is Match Play. I think that makes the tournament very interesting and intriguing for spectators and players. Like I say, anything can happen. Anybody can knock off anybody, and I think that's what makes it interesting. I hope the World Golf Championships - and I see no reason why they won't continue to be very popular and very strong among our Tour events - I just think that they are looked at already as a notch below a major tournament probably and the fields are really strong and purses are really high. Players are very excited and get fired up and work on their game in playing those events. So I just see that continuing and making them stronger and growing in the future.

STEVE STRICKER: No, it hasn't affected it but it's in the back of my mind, you know, knowing that I still need to get into the Top-64 to make it back to the tournament. So it hasn't affected my schedule but I have been thinking about it, and I surely would love to get back into that tournament, so I have got a lot of time yet -- I have got probably three tournaments this year yet, and then the start of next year to improve on the ranking and hopefully get back into the tournament.

STEVE STRICKER: I am not sure if there's a good Match Play course or a bad one. I mean, because really you are playing against the opponent and, you know, just one individual guy, so it's really you know, the course really has little bearing. I mean, obviously you'd like to play good on it, but ultimately you are just teeing it up against that individual. But I guess if you want exciting finishes, and stuff like that, the better the course, maybe the finishing holes be good and La Costa has that. Last few holes, they are very difficult and 17 being a par 5 and 18 being a tough par 4 adds to that difficulty. Again, I think it's a good course. It's a good course for stroke-play or Match Play tournaments. So I think everybody is excited. I know everybody is excited on the U.S. tour anyway that it is going to be back at La Costa. I think the field is just going to be outstanding.

STEVE STRICKER: Last year?

STEVE STRICKER: Well, I mean, you just -- you are talking about Match Play? Or the Match Play tournament itself?

STEVE STRICKER: Well, I mean, you have to prepare yourself leading up to there. You can't just go Monday of a major week or a World Golf Championships week or any tournament week, you've got to be prepared to go the week before or a couple of weeks in advance or whenever you make out your schedule, you know, you have got to be prepared. Mentally you have got to be ready to go. Your game needs to be ready. Everything just, you know, you have to feel right about going to that particular event and being a major tournament, even makes it that much more demanding on you mentally, you know, you need to be extra focused and just like I say, totally committed because the best players in the world are going to be there and you know they are going to be ready; their games are going to be ready, so you need to put in the time both physically and mentally and prepare yourself, to play your best.

STEVE STRICKER: Well, I mean, I have played this game long enough (inaudible) players playing in a major tournament that it's not very difficult to get focused in a major tournament just because -- it's just something different. There are only four of them out of the year, or four of the World Golf Championships events out of the year and those events, you know, it's easy to get excited, easy to get focused and get prepared just because the fields are so strong. So out on the course, you know, it's -- if your game is in good shape, you know, the focus is very simple just because it means so much and you want to play so well.

STEVE STRICKER: Well, my wife makes a better caddie for me, I know that. She has done a great job for me and we have gotten a long great out on the course. I don't know if that will be the case for most players. I don't know if they can have their wives out there. But we have had such a relationship where it has been able to work very well. This will probably be her last year doing it probably because my girl is getting a little bit older and we're probably going to try to have more kids. I wouldn't recommend it to every player, but for me it was the right combination of having my wife out there.

STEVE STRICKER: No, not at all. She was there for two wins out of the three, and she was just very excited and happy for me and, you know, we still go back and talk about that week and she's still interested in what happened during that week. No, there was no jealously on her part. She's just happy as heck seeing me play well and winning again.

STEVE STRICKER: Thank you. Thanks, everybody. Have a good day. (APPLAUSE)

MICHAEL GARTEN: I happen to be born in L.A. Cal and raised in Southern California, so you talked to me about this particular topic several times before. A lot of it is just attributed to the Southern California market, especially being the world of sports and entertainment, it is about as competitive as you will find in the entire planet. There are a lot of different things going on, and (inaudible) it's just the fact of life. With that in mind, one of the really what I consider big things that we have done since the event in February 2000 is we have developed a relationship with the San Diego International Sports Council - Torrey Mickelson is here with us today. I work very closely with Ky Snyder (phonetic). A number of you may know Ky. He was the president of the sports council before he assumed the role of the president of the Super Bowl Hope Committee for 2003. The effort, long story short, was to try to penetrate the San Diego and Southern California market more on a grass roots effort as opposed to on along the lines of simple advertising and traditional avenues. Early on we have had some pretty good success with that and hopefully we'll continue to do so. And the other note, I don't know that I mentioned this earlier, unique things about this particular event, some of the obvious pieces, is that Match Play doesn't necessarily allow you to have that many spectators during the course of the week. That might not necessarily be the case with Wednesday but it is absolutely the case with Thursday through Sunday. We've made a decision to limit the number of tickets - they come in a weekly package - but the daily ticket for each day to 7,500 tickets per day. So we hope to provide not only a unique but a very nice experience for the spectators and hopefully the world best players.

GARY GLASER: Although we haven't had any significant changes, we have worked very closely with the PGA TOUR Agronomy Department to continue to increase the amount of sand that we're top dressing our fairways with. So if we would have a little bit more precipitation than we would like, we expect to have much better drainage and much better overall playing conditions for the players but everything we're doing right now is really big-picture stuff. There have not been any significant renovations in the past year, greens rebuilt. Really just keeping the golf course in top condition, preparing on a year-round basis for the event. We've probably have a little bit of room, but approximately two and a half years ago we did go through a tee lengthening program - both our golf courses are over 7,000 yards and the tournament course I believe picked up approximately a potential for another 60 to 70 yards in length. The advance team chooses what they want the yardage of the golf course to be depending on the weather conditions. If we have had a lot of rain and course is going to be playing slow then they are going to keep the tees up a little bit. I think they really look to keep the courses at a certain length for most of the events, so they don't walk onto a golf course and suddenly have a monster that's playing 7,700 yards and the next week the golf course is playing 6,500. I think they worked very hard to keep the golf course as equitable and playing in very much the same length when they can do that.