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Adam Scott glad to make it through first round

Australian Adam Scott had plenty to smile about after grinding out a 2&1 victory over American Lucas Glover in the opening round of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship on Wednesday.

Both players struggled for form on a cold morning at La Costa Resort and Spa with Scott under early pressure after waking up 40 minutes late and having to rush to the course.

"My wake-up call didn't come this morning and I overslept," world number eight Scott told reporters.

"I was meant to have a wakeup call at 0515 and I got a phone call from my trainer at 0555 saying: 'Where are you?'

"So that wasn't great. I quickly threw down some breakfast and managed to put a blue shirt on with my black pants.

"It was early and it was cold, and I didn't have a very good warm-up. And it carried on through the round. It's just one of those things, but certainly it's not disastrous.

"The thing I like is I made a lot of putts, and I made a lot of good putts to stay in the match today. That's a positive thing I can take out of it."

The 25-year-old, who lost the first two holes with bogeys, sank a birdie putt from 20 feet at the par-three 16th to go one up.

He sealed victory with a regulation par on 17, where Glover bogeyed after finding a right fairway bunker off the tee and overshooting the green with his approach.

Scott had been two up with seven holes to play but lost the 14th and 15th with bogeys after hitting poor wedge shots into both greens.

"I was really mad with myself," added the Australian, a losing semi-finalist at La Costa in 2003. "I gave it right back on 14 and 15. We shouldn't have even stepped on to the 17th tee."

Glover, a pall-bearer last Friday at the funeral of his coach Dick Harmon, suffered a cruel blow at the par-five 11th where it seemed he was destined to win the hole.

Scott, in trouble off the tee and also with his second shot, holed a 60-footer for an unlikely birdie while Glover missed his own attempt from just three feet to enable the Australian to win the hole and forge two ahead.

Scott will play U.S. Ryder Cup captain Tom Lehman in Thursday's second round.