NORTHERN IRELAND’S RORY McIlroy and Graeme McDowell will meet in the last 16 of the World Match Play Championship after the group stage ended on Friday with four major winners tumbling out in Andalucia, Spain.
McIlroy and McDowell played together three times in Europe’s victory over the United States in the 2010 Ryder Cup, but will go head to head on Saturday after McIlroy finished runner-up in Group E by losing 3 and 2 to pool winner Nicolas Colsaerts.
McDowell topped Group D after squeezing past Venezuela’s Jhonattan Vegas by 1 hole to claim a second straight victory at the Finca Cortesin course.
Retief Goosen, Louis Oosthuizen, Y.E. Yang and Paul Lawrie were the past or present major champions eliminated.
- AP
