WGC Cadillac Match Play - Day 1

In lieu of simply re-posting the leaderboard from the round robin play, here is a list of the real winners and losers from the first day of the match play:

Winners

Jordan Spieth:  The Masters' champion racked up six birdies in 16 holes en route to a drubbing of Mikki Ilonen.

Marc Leishman: Lesihman drew last week's winner in Justin Rose and beat him 3&2.

Gary Woodland:  Woodland was 1 down heading to the 14th hole where he holed out his second shot from 127 yards. He eventually defeated Jimmy Walker on the 19th hole.

Losers

Ian Poulter:  Poulter has not had much success in stroke play events in the United States but is widely known as an intimadting match-play opponent.  Poulter lost to Webb Simpson 2&1.

Henrik Stenson:  Stenson is the 3rd rank player in the world.  He lost to John Senden - the 65th ranked player in the world.

Jason Day:  The defending champion of this event got shelled by Charley Hoffman 4&3.


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