McIlroy out of World Match Play Championship

Angel Cabrera ended the hopes of Rory McIlroy and Simon Dyson when he crushed Dyson by a massive seven-hole margin in the Volvo World Match Play Championship in Spain today.

England’s Ross Fisher will take on Masters champion Cabrera and American Anthony Kim will have a rematch with Australian Robert Allenby in the semi-finals of the event tomorrow.

Fisher beat India’s Jeev Milkha Singh to top his group in the new format and so made it to the last four, just as he did in the Accenture Match Play in Arizona in February.

Angel Cabrera ended the hopes of Rory McIlroy and Simon Dyson when he crushed Dyson by a massive seven-hole margin.

Kim, meanwhile, produced one of the shots of his life, a 274-yard three-wood to four feet on the final hole, to deny tournament outsider Scott Strange a place in the last four.

And with Allenby getting the win over Oliver Wilson that he needed to knock out the Englishman, he will face Kim three weeks after a controversial Presidents Cup clash.

Kim won the match 5&3 but Allenby then made late-night drinking allegations about his 24-year-old opponent.

They have spoken since and are trying to put the matter to bed, but it was perhaps written in the stars that they would face each other again at the first available opportunity.