Team GB&I jumps to early lead in morning foursomes session

It’s been eight lengthy years since Team Great Britain & Ireland’s final Walker Cup overcome the United States on the 2015 match at Royal Lytham and St. Annes, however they’re off to begin at this yr’s match on the Old Course at St. Andrews, thumping Team USA 3-1 in the morning foursomes session.

Americans Gordon Sargent and Dylan Menante have been the lone brilliant spot for the purple, white and blue in the morning, profitable their match towards Barclay Brown and Mark Power 3&2, giving the U.S. its solely level on the board up to now.

It was a special story for his or her teammates, although the matches have been a bit nearer than the whole rating signifies. Americans Ben James and Caleb Surratt fell to GB&I’s Calum Scott and Connor Graham 3&2 to even the rating, 1-1.

Then Team USA’s Preston Summerhays and David Ford narrowly missed securing a half-point towards GB&I’s Matt McClean and John Gough, who gained the match 1-up.

And in the ultimate foursomes match of the morning, Walker Cup veteran Stewart Hagestad and newly-minted U.S. Amateur champion Nick Dunlap battled GB&I’s Alex Maguire and James Ashfield to the 18th gap, the place Maguire drained a 12-footer to clinch a 1-up victory.

And similar to that, GB&I enjoys a commanding lead.

The Americans now have a tricky activity forward of them: clawing their approach again from a 3-1 deficit — a troublesome however not unattainable activity. There are 22 factors left up for grabs over the following day-and-a-half: eight singles matches on Saturday afternoon, then a whopping 14 factors on Sunday throughout 4 morning crew matches and 10 singles matches.

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