McDowell and Donald level pegging

Luke Donald and Graeme McDowell were all square after five holes in the first of three all-European clashes on the opening day of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona.

Donald, runner-up at the US Tour’s Northern Trust Open in Los Angeles two weeks ago, pitched to three feet for a winning opening birdie, but after he and McDowell had both got up and down from the same greenside bunker for birdies on the long second the 208-yard third was won with a bogey four.