Team China sets up gripping finale
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Team China beat an Asia-Pacific Select side in the foursomes of the Dongfeng Nissan Cup yesterday going into today’s singles round just a point behind as it looks for its first win.
Asia-Pacific leads 6 1/2-5 1/2 after clinching Friday’s fourball matches 4 1/2-1 1/2 and going down 2-4 in yesterday’s foursome clashes in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province.
The OneAsia Dongfeng Nissan Cup pits 12 Asia-Pacific players against a China national team over three days in a Ryder Cup-style event. The visitors won the inaugural 2011 tournament and retained the title last year.
Veterans Zhang Lianwei and Huang Wenyi, paired again after their opening fourball win, set the pace from the start yesterday by hammering Scott Laycock and Michael Long 5&4.
China’s gamble on changing all its other pairings — the visitors kept their combinations the same — paid off handsomely.
Eric Mina and Choo Tze-huang, the only Asia-Pacific pair to lose on Friday, looked to be making amends by turning 4-up against Yang Guanming and Yan Bin in the second match.
But the pair from Sichuan turned as hot as their home province’s famed spicy food, and they won five-in-a-row from the 13th to triumph 2&1.
Southeast Asian pairing Thaworn Wiratchant and Rory Hie looked comfortable for most of the day after starting birdie-birdie against Huang Mingjie and Wu Kangchun before easing to a 3&2 victory.
Su Dong and 16-year-old amateur Dou Zecheng didn’t have to do much in their 3&1 win against Choi Ho-sung and Kim Dae-sub as the Korean pair posted seven bogeys.
Match five proved the most exciting of the day with Wu Ashun and Wang Minghao going toe-to-toe with Japan’s Kazuhiro Yamashita and Masimichi Uehira all the way to the 18th before winning 1-up, with the lead changing hands four times.
The Asia-Pacific Select side grabbed a crucial second point in the final match courtesy of some more deadly putting from 2013 OneAsia Order of Merit champion Matt Griffin who snatched a half on Friday with a 60-footer on the last.
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