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Woosnam surprise first
day winner
Nick Faldo has suffered
his worst ever defeat in the World Match Play Championship but Ian Woosnam and
Sam Torrance rolled back the years to progress to the second round.
Faldo, the six times major winner, fell 9 and 8 to Irish Ryder Cup player Padraig
Harrington, who fired a nine-under 63 in his morning round of a contest scheduled
for 36 holes.
Afterwards, Faldo, who won
the event in 1989 and 1992, admitted he was thoroughly demoralised by the defeat.
"It makes me wonder
what the hell I'm out there for," he said. His previous worst results were
5 and 3 defeats to Ben Crenshaw and Nick Price.
In contrast, another former
champion Woosnam comfortably beat U.S. Open champion Retief Goosen 4 and 3 while
European Ryder Cup captain Sam Torrance defeated Seve Ballesteros 3 and 2.
In the other first round
match, Dane Thomas Bjorn had too much experience for 21-year-old Australian prospect
Adam Scott and won his first match in the event at his third attempt, 4 and 3.
Favourite Vijay Singh of
Fiji, winner in 1997, begins his campaign with a quarter-final against the 48-year-old
Torrance while Harrington and Darren Clarke, Woosnam and Colin Montgomerie and
Bjorn and holder Lee Westwood contest Friday's other matches.
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