 All eyes are on Tiger Woods as he makes his comeback from injury
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Britain's Lee Westwood and American Anthony Kim were the first players into the second round of the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship in Arizona.
Westwood, one of 20 Europeans in the 64-man field, will meet either Stewart Cink or Richard Sterne after a 2&1 win over Thailand's Prayad Marksaeng.
Kim strolled to a 7&5 victory over Taiwan's Lin Wen-Tang.
Colombia's Camilo Villegas was the next into the clubhouse after a 7&6 win over Rodney Pampling of Australia.
Eight months on from winning the US Open, Tiger Woods returned to action following his cruciate injury.
The American world number one faces Brendan Jones of Australia in the opening round and was given a raucous welcome by supporters surrounding the first tee at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club.
Woods's compatriot Kim will face Oliver Wilson in the next round after the Englishman wrapped up a 3&1 win over KJ Choi.
Wilson moved to two up with a birdie at the par-five 13th and sealed victory when the Korean bogeyed the 17th.
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Wilson said: "It is not a good draw getting KJ. It was always going to be tough. He is a solid player tee to green and you are certainly not going to get him riled or anything and beat him mentally.
Also through, Jimenez sealed his second-round date with Villegas by completing a two-up win over Sabbatini as the South African failed to close the gap further having won the 14th.
Westwood, in the Ben Hogan bracket of the draw alongside top seed Vijay Singh and also including Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els, Luke Donald, Graeme McDowell and last year's beaten finalist Cink, had raced into a three-up lead after seven holes before the Thai won his first hole at the eighth.
Westwood lost again at the 15th but regained his two-hole lead at the next hole before sealing victory by halving the 17th.
"I did play well," he said. "I was five under par and could have been a little better than that but Prayad played well and hung in there all day and started to come back at me on the back nine.
"I hit a great shot into 16 which sort of closed the game out - an eight iron to 18 inches which put me two up with two to play and I managed to halve 17."
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