McIlroy in quarter-final fight

Rory McIlroy had a fight on his hands at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club today as the last eight players left in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship began their bids to reach this evening’s semi-finals.

The Irish teenager and Australian Geoff Ogilvy were first out on the day, with world number eight Ogilvy representing McIlroy's first encounter this week with a top-10 player, having previously knocked out Louis Oosthuizen, Hunter Mahan and Tim Clark in his professional debut on American soil.