Emma Duggleby & Shelley McKevitt (GB&I)
beat Erica Blasberg & Sarah Huarte (USA) by
2 and 1.
The GB&I pair shot into a four-hole lead after
only seven holes with the help of birdies at the
first and third and concessions at the fifth and
seventh.
Duggleby holed from 20ft at the first and McKevitt
from 30ft, off the green, for the third-hole birdie.
The GB&I pair had their first setback with
a bogey 6 to lose the long eighth and go back
to three up.
Duggleby and McKevitt, out in an approximate one-under-par
36, went five up after 10 when Blasberg and Huarte
bogeyed the ninth and 10th.
Blasberg holed a 6ft birdie putt after a nice
approach by Huarte for the United States to win
the 13th and go back to four down.
The GB&I pair conceded the 14th and were three
up with four to play.
That became two up with three to play when Duggleby
and McKevitt bogeyed the 15th to lose it also.
The GB&I pair moved to dormie two with a half
in 3s at the short 16th. A half in 5 at the long
17th gave Duggleby and McKevitt a 2 and 1 win
and levelled off the overall scoreline at 5-5.
MATCH 2
ANNE AND CLAIRE RALLY TO WIN FROM SLOW START
Anne Laing & Claire Coughlan (GB&I) beat
Elizabeth Janangelo & Michelle Wie (USA) by
2 and 1
Janangelo holed an 8ft birdie putt to win the
first hole for the United States and the Americans
got another birdie at the long third to go two
up.
Laing and Coughlan came back into the picture
when the Americans bogeyed both the fourth and
fifth to be pulled back to all square.
Janangelo and Wie bogeyed their third hole in
a row to lose the sixth and fall one down.
The GB&I pair reached the turn in an estimated
level par 37 and a one-hole lead which doubled
at the 10th when the Americans conceded the hole.
Janangelo and Wie bogeyed the 11th, which put
Laing and Coughlan three up. That became a four-hole
lead when Coughlan holed an 8ft birdie putt at
the 12th. Halves in par at the 13th and 14th put
the GB&I pair in a dormie four position.
Janangelo and Wie won their first hole since the
third when Laing and Coughlan had a rare bogey
at the 15th.
MATCH 3
LANG AND THURMAN BUILD ON EARLY LEAD
Nicola Timmins & Danielle Masters (GB&I)
lost to Brittany Lang & Annie Thurman (USA)
by 5 and 4.
Lang and Thurman had a purple patch of consecutive
birdies at the second, third and fourth to surge
three holes up. Thurman chipped in at the second;
the Americans pitched dead at the third and Thurman
holed from 10ft at the fourth. It could have been
four up for the rampant United States pair at
the sixth but Thurman failed with a 4ft birdie
putt.
Blasberg holed a 5ft birdie putt to put the Americans
four up after eight holes. The United States pair,
after a half in 4 at the ninth, reached the turn
in four-under-par 33, the best scoring of the
weekend so far.
Timmins and Masters scored their first success
of the morning and they had to produce a birdie
2 at the short 10th to do it. Masters holed from
6ft. The Americans hit back immediately with a
birdie 3 - Lang holing from 15ft - to win the
11th and regain a four-hole lead. That became
a five-hole advantage with five to play when Timmins
and Masters bogeyed the 13th and a half in par
at the 14th clinched a 5 and 4 win for Lang and
Thurman.
