First round recap of the Accenture Match Play

The Accenture Match Play is finally happening, and we have your recaps of all the big matches, crazy upsets and exciting finishes. We will update as the day goes, but here are the early storylines out of Dove Mountain.

Sergio Garcia survives 20 holes against Thongchai Jaidee -- The first shot The Golf Channel showed on Thursday as play kicked off was Garcia standing over a 15-footer. Two putts and Garcia would have been 2-up with two holes to play, but he blew that putt by a good eight feet, missed the comebacker and we had ourselves a match. Jaidee made a solid birdie on the 18th to move the match to extra holes, and after a lip-out on the 19th hole, Jaidee couldn't hold off Garcia, who hit the par-5 second hole in two and made birdie to win the match. How close was Sergio to getting knocked out in the first round? He already had his hat off and had given his caddie his ball as to say, "this is over" as Jaidee stood over his birdie putt on the first extra hole.

Russell Henley gives us the upset of the day with his win over Charl Schwartzel -- Heading into the match play, there were plenty of guys that you might consider "the hottest golfer on the planet," but that title was reserved for Schwartzel, who had been playing out of his mind before arriving at the first WGC event of the year. Henley, who already has a win this season at the Sony Open, took care of Schwartzel 1-up after nearly letting things slip away, and while there will be plenty of higher seeds that win, but plenty of experts had Charl in the finals, not getting bounced in the opening round.

The defending champion gets past his opening round opponent -- Hunter Mahan was coming into the Accenture a marked man, and as we've seen in the past, this tournament isn't too kind to past winners. But Mahan took care of business against Matteo Manassero, winning 5-up thanks to a solid start despite his best stuff.