Luke Donald's bid to keep the WGC-Accenture World Match Play trophy in English hands is still alive after another superb display at the Blue Monster in Arizona on Friday. Donald, trying to emulate Ian Poulter, has yet to trail all http://www.ohshoppingmall.com/goods-241-Mizuno+JPX+800+Irons+.html Mizuno JPX 800 Irons and reached the quarter-finals with a 3&2 victory over rising star Matteo Manassero. The 17-year-old Italian is the youngest player ever to compete in the event and was on a real high after knocking out Steve Stricker and Charl Schwartzel. But the 2009 British amateur champion, already a European Tour winner in his nine-month-old professional career, found Donald a much tougher proposition. And now Donald, if he can go all the way and end five years without a win in America, will move to third in the world behind Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer - with Graeme McDowell fourth. Europe has not been able to boast such a situation since 1992 through Ian Woosnam, Nick Faldo, Jose Maria Olazabal and Seve Ballesteros. Manassero could not match the 33-year-old's http://www.ohshoppingmall.com/goods-241-Mizuno+JPX+800+Irons+.html Mizuno JPX 800 Irons at the first and fourth, bogeyed the next and then saw his opponent fire in his approach to three feet at the seventh. Ninth seed Donald did lose the long eighth, but his response was immediate - a 20-footer for another birdie at the next and then a par on the 10th to go five up despite driving into a greenside bunker. Manassero chipped in for eagle at the 13th and birdied the 15th to take that as well, but Donald clinched his first last eight spot in seven attempts on the next. McDowell has still to make the quarter-finals in his career, however, after going out to Korean YE Yang. Northern Ireland's US open champion had come from behind in his first two games and threatened to do the same when he took the ninth and 10th to level. But Yang, the player who beat Tiger Woods head-to-head in the 2009 US PGA Championship, went away from him again and sealed victory with a chip-in birdie at the 16th. Biggest win of the day went to 47-year-old Spaniard Miguel Angel Jimenez, 8&6 over Ben Crane a day after the American had crushed Rory McIlroy 8&7. Jimenez, trying to become the oldest winner of the title by 10 years, won the http://www.ohshoppingmall.com/goods-241-Mizuno+JPX+800+Irons+.html Mizuno JPX 800 Irons , three of them with birdies, and never looked back. Meanwhile, Kaymer, who needs to reach Sunday's final to replace Westwood at the top of the rankings, was all square with American Hunter Mahan with three to go.
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