Round two morning and afternoon match results from Le Club Laval-sur-le-Lac
Laval-sur-le-Lac, Que. (RCGA) – Team Canada swept its three morning foursome matches and then won 5 ½ of six afternoon singles matches to take share of the overall team lead with Australia into the final round of play at the Four Nations Cup in Laval-sur-le-Lac, Que.
In morning foursome action, Canada faced New Zealand and swept all three matches with Matt Hill of Bright’s Grove, Ont. and Lindsay Renolds of Christina Lake, B.C. winning 1-UP over Daniel Pearce and Peter Spearman-Burn; Nick Taylor and David Markle winning 4&3 over Ryan Fox and Ben Wallace; and Eugene Wong of North Vancouver, B.C. and Darren Wallace of Langley, B.C. getting past Scott Johnson and Thomas Spearman-Burn 2&1.
In the afternoon singles matches, Canadians Matt Hill (4&3), Eugene Wong (3&2), Lindsay Renolds (4&2), Darren Wallace (5&4) and David Markle (3&2) were all victorious while Nick Taylor, the world’s #1 ranked amateur battled back from three holes down through 14 to finish his match with New Zealand’s Peter Spearman-Burn all square.
In the day’s other matchup, Australia won two of three morning foursome matches with Japan and then 3 ½ of six afternoon singles matches. Daniel Beckman (3&1), Jordan Sherratt (4&3) and Lester Peterson (6&5) were all victorious while Matt Giles squared his match with Japan’s Yuki Usami.
Peterson, a legendary amateur player acting as Australian team captain this week, has been a surprise story at Le Club Laval-sur-le-Lac having been pressed into action as a team alternate with Daniel Nisbet unable to compete thus far due to illness.
Canada dominated New Zealand Thursday winning 8 ½ of nine total second round matches to claim their second point of the tournament. The Canucks have won 15 ½ of 18 matches thus far setting up a much anticipated showdown with defending champion Australia to cap Friday’s final round.
The defending champions from Australia captured 5 ½ out of nine matches against Japan on Thursday to earn their second point of the championship and will face Canada tomorrow having won 11 ½ of 18 matches thus far.
Final round action gets underway at 8:00 am Friday with Canada facing Australia and New Zealand facing Japan in morning foursome and afternoon singles matches.
DAY 2 RESULTS - MORNING FOURSOME MATCHES
CANADA vs NEW ZEALAND
Eugene Wong & Darren Wallace vs Scott Johnson & Thomas Spearman-Burn CAN 2&1
Matt Hill & Lindsay Renolds vs Daniel Pearce & Peter Spearman-Burn CAN 1-UP
Nick Taylor & David Markle vs Ryan Fox & Ben Wallace CAN 4&3
AUSTRALIA vs JAPAN
Daniel Beckmann & Lester Peterson vs Satoshi Kodaira & Tomoharu Otsuki JPN 5&4
Matt Jager & Matt Giles vs Keisuke Otawa & Yutaro Kuga AUS 3&2
Brendan Smith & Jordan Sherratt vs Yuki Usami & Shingi Tomimura AUS 3&2
DAY 2 RESULTS - AFTERNOON SINGLES MATCHES
CANADA vs NEW ZEALAND
Eugene Wong vs Daniel Pearce CAN 3&2
Darren Wallace vs Thomas Spearman-Burn CAN 5&4
Lindsay Renolds vs Ben Wallace CAN 4&2
Dave Markle vs Scott Johnson CAN 3&2
Matt Hill vs Ryan Fox CAN 4&3
Nick Taylor vs Peter Spearman-Burn
AUSTRALIA vs JAPAN
Lester Peterson vs Yutaro Kuga AUS 6&5
Jordan Sherratt vs Shingi Tomimura AUS 4&3
Brendan Smith vs Tomoharu Otsuki JPN 4&3
Daniel Beckmann vs Satoshi Kodaira AUS 3&1
Matt Jager vs Keisuke Otawa JPN 1-UP
Matt Giles vs Yuki Usami All Square
TEAM TOTAL SCORING
CANADA 2 points (15 ½ of 18 matches won)
AUSTRALIA 2 points (11 ½ of 18 matches won)
JAPAN 0 points (5 ½ of 18 matches won)
NEW ZEALAND 0 points (3 ½ of 18 matches won)
(Team total points earned by winning at minimum 5 of 9 daily matches)
For more information on the Four Nations Cup including tournament schedule, team rosters and scoring, please visit www.rcga.org/fournationscup.
Now in its 12th playing, the Four Nations Cup is a team competition between Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand played bi-annually since 1987. Historically, Australia has won the event all but twice, having been defeated by Japan in 1997 and Canada in 2001. Team Canada claimed victory at the event in 2001 on home soil at Lambton Golf & Country Club in Toronto
The three-day, round-robin match play event uses a Ryder Cup style format with daily matches against each country consisting of three foursomes (alternate shot) matches in the mornings and six singles matches in the afternoons.
Practice rounds ran August 3rd and 4th with championship play running from August 5th to 7th.
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