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Defending champion and No. 1 seed Luke Donald crashed out of the World Match Play Championship in the first round yesterday beaten by Ernie Els at Dove Mountain in Arizona.
Els, who only got into the 64-man field when Phil Mickelson withdrew, won 5-and-4 to make Donald only the third
No. 1 seed to exit at the first round in the event's history.
The Big Easy next plays the Dane Anders Hansen.
Tiger Woods battled to a 1up victory over the Spaniard Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano.
U.S. Open champion Rory McIlroy beat South Africa's George Coetzee 2up.
Brandt Snedeker needed 21 holes to get past Retief Goosen.
Louis Oosthuizen beat Aaron Baddely 2 and 1 and Charl Schwartzel beat Gary Woodland 4 and 2
