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G-Mac wins, Reed loses on first day of Volvo

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Defending champion Graeme McDowell was among the early winners at the first day of the Volvo World Match Play Championship, while Patrick Reed suffered an opening defeat in his first event since the Ryder Cup.

McDowell was the first player to win his match Wednesday at the London Golf Club, defeating Alexander Levy, 3 and 2, days after Levy won on the European Tour. McDowell was one of two Ryder Cuppers to win his opening match, as Victor Dubuisson downed Pablo Larrazabal by the same margin. Reed, Stephen Gallacher and Jamie Donaldson all lost their opening matches, while Henrik Stenson halved his match with George Coetzee.

Teeing it up for the first time since going 3-0-1 at Gleneagles, Reed lost to Jonas Blixt, 2 and 1, as the lone American in the field failed to win a hole until No. 11. Gallacher was unable to dig out of an early hole against Shane Lowry, losing 2 and 1, while Donaldson erased a 3-down deficit against Paul Casey before the Englishman finally notched a 2-and-1 victory.

The other matches saw Joost Luiten outlast Mikko Ilonen, 1 up, and Thongchai Jaidee – a finalist in 2013 – score a 2-up win over Francesco Molinari.

With the 16-man field sorted into four groups of four, group play will continue Thursday with a slate of matches that will include McDowell vs. Ilonen, Reed vs. Casey, Dubuisson vs. Lowry, Gallacher vs. Larrazabal, Luiten vs. Levy, Stenson vs. Molinari, Donaldson vs. Blixt and Jaidee vs. Levy.

Group play will conclude Friday, with the field pared to eight players who will be placed into a single-elimination bracket.

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Eight of top 30 in Franklin Templeton field

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Eight of the top 30 players in the Official World Golf Rankings are scheduled to compete in the 26th Franklin Templeton Shootout, which returns to Tiburón Golf Club at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort in Naples for its 14th year year December 8-13.

Tournament host and World Golf Hall of Fame member Greg Norman announced the 24-player field on Tuesday:

Keegan Bradley   Matt Kuchar  Brandt Snedeker
Jason Day    Justin Leonard   Steve Stricker
Harris English Graeme McDowell Cameron Tringale
Retief Goosen  Sean O’Hair Scott Verplank
Billy Horschel Ryan Palmer Camilo Villegas
Charles Howell III   Kenny Perry Jimmy Walker
Jerry Kelly Ian Poulter Mike Weir
Chris Kirk Rory Sabbatini  Gary Woodland

The two-man team event returns defending champions Kuchar and English, as well as the current FedEx Cup champion, Horschel.

Others in the top 30 are Day, McDowell, Walker, Kirk, Bradley and Stricker.

Five players – Kirk, Palmer, Tringale, Walker and Woodland – will be competing for the first time. Of the other 19 returning contestants, eight have won the event.

The pairings for the 12, two-man teams will be announced at the end of this month.

Norman, who recently pondered if a return to golf was in the cards after a chainsaw accident, will not be competing in the tournament because of his broadcast duties with Fox Sports, but he is scheduled to compete in the Tuesday and Wednesday pro-am event.

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