Great Britain and Ireland on the brink of Team Cup win

January 12, 2025
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Great Britain and Ireland need just two more points to secure victory over Continental Europe in the 2025 Team Cup after a dominant Saturday in Abu Dhabi.

Justin Rose's team built on their overnight advantage to win both sessions and establish an 11-4 lead heading into Sunday’s 10 concluding singles matches.

Leading by two points after Friday’s four-balls, Great Britain and Ireland stretched their advantage to 7-3 after the morning session on the middle day.

And a 4-1 win in the afternoon foursomes – led by an opening 3&2 win for Tyrrell Hatton and Matt Wallace over Rasmus Hojgaard and Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen – left them firmly in control.

"The lads kind of finished every match off, every match that got tight we either got back to a half or turned them around to win matches," said Rose afterwards.

"We had a full day of golf on Friday, but it was only 20% of the point total. Today was the big day, 10 points up for grabs. They have done an unbelievable job just keeping the momentum going."