Kuala Lumpur: Team Europe finally found their rhythm as they steamrolled Team Asia in the singles to win the EurAsia Cup golf tournament for the second time in three editions, here Sunday.
Winning eight singles and halving another one, Europe emerged 8 ½ to 3 ½ winners in singles to complete a 14-10 triumph at the Glenmarie Golf and Country Club.
Tommy Fleetwood and Tyrell Hatton remained unbeaten for Europe winning all three matches, while Yuta Ikeda with three wins in three matches and Li Haotong with 2 ½ points from three matches were unbeaten for Asia.
Beginning one point behind Team Asia, Europe racked up three quick wins through Alex Noren (4 & 2 against Nicholas Fung), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (4 & 3 against Gavin Green) and Tommy Fleetwood (2 & 1 against SSP Chawrasia) to move ahead and but were interrupted only by Poom Saksansin’s shock defeat of Paul Casey 1-up.
However, Europe kept piling on the wins, through Henrik Stenson, Bernd Wiesberger and Alex Levy with Thomas Pieters delivering the winning point and then Tyrell Hatton beat Anirban Lahiri for the eighth singles win for Europe. Asia did win two more matches to make the score closer 10-14 but it was too late by then.
On the other hand, Team Europe captain Thomas Bjorn asserted that these tournaments should happen more as it always become closer than you think. “You play for very few points the first two days and then you play for a lot of points on Sunday, and that’s the way these events are,” he said.
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