McGinley, runner-up to Kiwi Michael Campbell in last week's World Match Play, was two down with five to play.
Els has won seven World Match Play titles on the course but has had to settle for three runners-up finishes in the PGA Championship.
Compatriot Colin Montgomerie won the Accenture world match play title before it came an official World Golf Championships event and took the individual title at the 1997 World Cup.
And while Casey has reached the last two finals of the World Match Play in Arizona, Harrington has lost in the first round to Pat Perez and Jeev Milkha Singh.
After finishing tied third in the 2001 Open Championship, he became the oldest winner of the 2001 Cisco World Match Play Championship at Wentworth, beating Padraig Harrington in an epic final.
World Match Play in the past 12 months.
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Paul Casey, still battling the rib injury which sidelined him for three months, Volvo World Match Play Championship winner Ross Fisher and Martin Kaymer, who is still struggling with a foot injury, sit on four-under.
Fisher, who lost to Paul Casey in the semifinals of the Accenture World Match Play in Arizona in February, had a nervy finish after seeming to be home and hosed at two-up after 28 holes.
Having won the Volvo Masters and reached the final of the World Match Play since the qualifying period began, McGinley has every chance of becoming one of the first names to book an automatic spot.
Despite birdies at the first two holes, he remained too far back to have a chance of the title, but his performance put him in good heart heading into the Accenture World Match Play in San Diego.
Located between Marbella and Sotogrande in the Costa del Sol, Finca Cortesin is a coastal development set by an 18-hole golf course of the same name, which opened in 2006 and this year plays hosts to the Volvo World Match Play Championship.
Casey has four top-10 finishes to his name this season and was runner-up to Ian Poulter in the World Golf Championship Match Play event in February.
Kuchar is in form after finishing second at last week's Crowne Plaza Invitational, while he won the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship in February.
It is a repeat of their tense and controversial World Cup play-off match in November, which saw Algeria progress to the finals in South Africa.
Elsewhere, the draw for the first World Golf Championships tournament of the year, the Accenture Match Play, has been made, pairing world No. 1 Rory McIlroy, who lost to Hunter Mahan in the final last year, against Irishman Shane Lowry.
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Pakistan play their first World Twenty20 match against Scotland on Wednesday in Durban and are also in the same group as traditional rivals India.
Hungary will be forced to play its World Cup qualifying match against Romania in an empty stadium after the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed an appeal by the Hungarian Football Federation on Tuesday.
The match is the second World Cup game each side will play, after India face Bangladesh in the opening game in Mirpur on 19 February, and England take on the Netherlands in Nagpur three days later.
"I've kept myself fit and although I've appeared in some one-off charity rugby and football matches this will be the first - and I'm sure last - time that I'll play in a competitive match against some world class players, " Johnson said.
South Africa play Bulgaria in a World Cup warm-up match in Soweto's Orlando Stadium on Monday.
Akide is one of four African players selected for the All-Star squad that will play against world champions Germany in the Fifa centennial match in Paris on 20 May.
Australia play Zimbabwe in their first match of the Cricket World Cup in Ahmedabad on 21 February.
Edwards, who scored 173 not out in a World Cup match against Ireland in 1997, will not be able to play any cricket this summer.
In addition, the 2010 World Cup hosts will also play three club sides although only one match, the clash with FC Nuremberg on 22 April, has been confirmed.
Johnson will play in the Help for Heroes match on 20 September alongside World Cup-winning colleague Lawrence Dallaglio, who will lead the Heroes XV.
My anguish watching that final play-off match between Sweden and the GB men, the reigning world champions, was almost as if I had been on the ice myself.
In Miami, where Mr. Murray is scheduled to play his first match of the Sony Ericsson Open Friday morning, the world No. 4 is still very much a man chasing starlight: Despite being stronger, faster, smarter, more versatile and more dedicated than ever, he seems to get no closer to the object of his desire.
The 1998 world champion winner went down 5-4 to his fellow Scot but did well to play the match at all.
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South Africa's World Cup dream ended in tatters when their match against Sri Lanka resulted in a tie after rain stopped play with five overs remaining at Kingsmead on Monday.
Having made his first appearance at the ATP World Tour 250 event, Nadal will next play in Brazil and then Mexico as he seeks to regain match fitness ahead of the European clay season.
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