ESPN Golf Online
Wednesday, January 3

MElBOURNE -- First-round results Wednesday from the World Golf Championship -- Accenture Match Play Championship at Metropolitan Golf Club:

Ernie Els (1) def. Greg Kraft (64), 4 and 2

Nick O'Hern (63) def. Hal Sutton (2), 21 holes

Vijay Singh (3) def. Kevin Sutherland (62), 4 and 2

Tom Lehman (4) def. Greg Chalmers (61), 2 and 1

Michael Campbell (5) def. Mathias Gronberg (60), 4 and 3

Mark McNulty (59) def. Stewart Cink (6), 1-up

Justin Leonard (7) def. Patrik Sjoland (58), 6 and 5

Craig Stadler (57) def. John Huston (8), 4 and 2

David Toms (9) def. Hirofumi Miyase (56), 1-up

Steve Stricker (55) def. Padraig Harrington (10), 2 and 1

Bob May (11) def. Tom Scherrer (54), 2 and 1

Glen Day (53) def. Kirk Triplett (12), 3 and 1

Chris Perry (13) def. Jonathan Kaye (52), 2-up

Stuart Appleby (14) def. Kenny Perry (51), 1-up

Robert Allenby (15) def. Nobuhito Sato (50), 2 and 1

Jean Van de Velde (49) def. Duffy Waldorf (16), 19 holes

Retief Goosen (17) def. Steve Lowery (48), 2 and 1

Dudley Hart (18) def. Skip Kendall (47), 6 and 5

Per-Ulrik Johansson (46) def. Steve Flesch (19), 5 and 4

Brad Faxon (45) def. Jose Coceres (20), 3 and 2

Pierre Fulke (21) def. Fred Funk (44), 5 and 4

Shigeki Maruyama (22) def. Scott Dunlap (43), 2 and 1

Scott Verplank (23) def. Brent Geiberger (42), 19 holes

Andrew Coltart (41) def. Phillip Price (24), 3 and 2

Craig Parry (40) def. Dennis Paulson (25), 21 holes

Gary Orr (26) def. Paul McGinley (39), 2 and 1

Paul Lawrie (27) def. Chris DiMarco (38), 5 and 4

Toshi Izawa (28) def. Steve Pate (37), 19 holes

Jeff Sluman (36) def. Joe Ozaki (29), 3 and 2

Toru Taniguchi (30) def. Bob Estes (35), 3 and 2

Tim Herron (34) def. Franklin Langham (31), 3 and 1

Hidemichi Tanaka (32) def. Bernhard Langer (33), 19 holes