Luke Donald booked his place in the second round of the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship before Tiger Woods and Lee Westwood had even hit a shot in Tucson.
After a 30-minute delay for frost Donald, one of the stars of Europe's Ryder Cup win last October, beat American Charley Hoffman 6 and 5.
It threatened to be an even bigger margin when 33 year old Englishman, seeded ninth in the 64-strong field, took seven of the first ten holes.
Hoffman, a winner of one of the FedEx Cup play-off events last season, covered that stretch in six over par and even though he won the long 11th he was probably already resigned to defeat at that point.
And, sure enough, Donald halved the next two to reach the last 32.
"Charley was not on his A-game," he said. "I was probably three or four under and I'll take the win, but it was not too hard fortunately."
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