Reed on a roll as Donaldson and G-Mac crash out in Kent

Patrick Reed gained a small measure of revenge for last month’s Ryder Cup defeat by knocking European hero Jamie Donaldson out of the Volvo World Match Play Championship yesterday.

Reed on a roll as Donaldson and G-Mac crash out in Kent

And another key member of the victory at Gleneagles also fell by the wayside at The London Club in Kent as defending champion Ireland’s Graeme McDowell suffered his second successive defeat.

McDowell lost by two holes to Holland’s Joost Luiten to miss out on the knockout stages for the first time in four appearances in the event, the Antrim man having reached the quarter-finals in 2011, the final in 2012 and winning last year in Bulgaria.

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