Tiger Woods lets rip during his third round match

Tiger Woods eased into the quarter-finals of the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship with a comfortable win over Stephen Leaney.

The world number one and top seed crushed his Australian opponent by a record-equalling 7&6.

Woods won six of the first seven holes and twice holed from off the green for eagles.

Darren Clarke, who beat Woods in the 2000 final, had himself matched that record in demolishing Davis Love in Thursday's second round.

But the Ulsterman had a much tougher struggle against Jim Furyk on Friday, finally prevailing by one hole.

Clarke now faces Australian Peter Lonard, who also had a one-hole victory over compatriot Robert Allenby.

Saturday's quarter-final matches (All times GMT) 1510: (1) Tiger Woods v (25) Scott Hoch 1520: (61) Jay Haas v (44) Adam Scott 1530: (31) Peter Lonard v (26) Darren Clarke 1540: (19) Jerry Kelly v (6) David Toms

Woods' victory, in contrast, seemed assured from the first hole, where he did not even have to putt.

When he did at the short second he drained a 25-footer to go two-up and then made a 14-foot eagle putt on the 575-yard third.

Leaney had hooked his opening drive, then clipped a tree with his second shot and saw the ball dive into the water short of the green.

With his fourth shot he was in a bunker and when he failed to hole from there he conceded.

Leaney failed to get up and down from sand at the 204-yard fifth and Woods rubbed salt into his opponent's wounds on the sixth, chipping in from 28 feet for birdie.

A 10-footer for par gave him the eighth, but then came his first bogey of the week - a careless three-putt at the ninth that meant he turned "only" five-up.

It was Leaney's only success.

He bogeyed the 10th after a poor drive and then saw Woods have his second eagle, holing out from a greenside bunker at the 526-yard 11th.

Woods' next will be Ryder Cup team-mate Scott Hoch.

After putting out Padraig Harrington in the second round Hoch beat Japan's Toshi Izawa 4&3.

Third seed Phil Mickelson was surprisingly beaten 3 and 2 by fellow American Jerry Kelly.