McIlroy will team up with Ian Poulter for the foursomes.
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What is it about female foursomes that make for good storytelling?
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Mickelson lost his Friday foursomes and was benched until the singles.
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No need to change the format of foursomes, four-ball and singles.
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The U.S. have dominated foursomes' alternate shot format throughout the tournament's history.
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Woods may return for the four foursomes matches in the afternoon, however.
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The final foursomes comprised Brooks Koepka, Webb Simpson, Tony Finau and Bubba Watson.
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The 41st Ryder Cup starts on Friday morning with the opening foursomes matches.
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Danielle Kang, Angel Yin and Lizette Salas will also not participate in the foursomes.
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"My husband was in one of the foursomes [in the tournament]," Jacqueline told the outlet.
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When Woods lost again later it was his 19th defeat in 29 fourballs and foursomes.
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The next morning, Mickelson praised Sutton's idea to pair him and Woods in the foursomes.
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Should he charge higher room rates for threesomes or foursomes than he did for couples?
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Furyk was widely criticized for teaming veteran Phil Mickelson and rookie Bryson DeChambeau in Friday foursomes.
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Johnson and Koepka partnered in the Saturday afternoon foursomes, losing to Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson.
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Threesomes, foursomes, fivesomes, I was never a one-man woman, or a one-woman woman either.
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The compatibility and how that will work and foursomes and four-balls will also help, as well.
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But Mickelson played his Presidents Cup foursomes match, a record breaker, primarily for an audience of three.
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The event will feature two rounds of foursomes (Thursday and Saturday) and two rounds of four-balls.
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The teams event used a format of two rounds of alternate-shot foursomes and two of four-ball.
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Smith and Blixt combined for a stellar four-under-par 68 in the demanding foursomes (alternate shot) format.
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Almost twenty years after Purple Knight, he joined one of the county's most progressive, cool and artistic foursomes.
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Mickelson's form was so poor he was only used once before Sunday's singles — a foursomes drubbing with Dechambeau.
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Youngster Dechambeau partnered Mickelson and Woods to foursomes defeats and lost his singles but will surely come again.
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A bigger challenge looms on Friday as they confront their demons in the foursomes, their traditional Achilles heel.
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When the Lesu Four face off against Manu at the group tribal council, both foursomes swear to stay strong.
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The pairings for the Saturday afternoon alternate-shot foursomes will not be submitted until late in the fourball matches.
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Over all, he is 9-16-1 in foursomes and four-ball matches and 4-1-2 in singles.
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But Woods, at age 42, was back out there with the Ryder Cup rookie Bryson DeChambeau for the foursomes.
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The Italian said their strategy was to always find the fairway off the tee, especially in alternate-shot foursomes.
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I think the front nine we played, in foursomes and on this course with the wind blowing, was spectacular.
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Creamer also reached a milestone, passing Inkster as the all-time American points winner in foursomes matches with 8.5 points.
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The more forgiving four ball (best ball) format will be used on Saturday, before foursomes are played again on Sunday.
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There will be five foursomes (alternate shot) matches on Friday while Saturday's play will feature four matches of each format.
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There was never a reasonable chance to finish in his pro-am format, with mostly foursomes across the golf course.
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Consider how McIlroy and Pieters settled on who was going to hit first at No. 1 in their Saturday foursomes match.
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But he and Woods could ultimately not keep pace, and Furyk chose not to use Woods or Reed in the foursomes.
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Mickelson, playing in the biennial event for a record 12th time, was benched by captain Jim Furyk for Saturday's fourballs and foursomes.
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It doesn't matter if I'm talking to foursomes of female golfers, groups of shoppers or several of my 1966 high-school classmates.
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Later they outclassed Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas 5&4 to complete Europe's first ever 4-0 sweep in the foursomes format.
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He said the United States needed a "lot of attitude" to pull themselves back into the contest in the foursomes on Friday.
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Rahm and Palmer combined for a bogey-free 65 in the alternate shot foursomes and took the halfway lead at 15-under 129.
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Kim and Putnam, neither of whom has won on the PGA Tour, shot three-under 69 in the unforgiving alternate shot foursomes format.
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Tour officials felt it was important to have foursomes, or alternate shot, as part of the format so that both players could contribute.
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"You get tired of that one night and the multiple womens or the threesomes or the foursomes or whatever," Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino answers.
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Furyk will also be second-guessed for playing the notoriously inaccurate Phil Mickelson in the unforgiving alternate-shot foursomes, rather than fourball (best ball).
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Halfway through the third session, a repeat of Friday's 210-21999 foursomes sweep by Europe looked possible before Jim Furyk's side joined the fight.
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Thirteen of them sat behind the first tee for foursomes and led a Palmer chant — "Arn-old Palm-er," clap, clap, clap, clap, clap.
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Following the quartet of morning fourballs, the afternoon will see four foursomes matches, in which team mates play alternate shots using the same ball.
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He eked out a half-point in partnership with Hideki Matsuyama in alternate-shot foursomes at Liberty National and lost his other two matches.
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Saturday, with four morning fourball matches and four foursomes matches in the afternoon, will have eight points up for grabs and could prove decisive.
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The first and third days of competition will be the foursomes (alternate shot) format and the second and final days are fourball (best ball) play.
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Five of the six American rookies will play in the Friday foursomes, with only Ally McDonald, a late replacement for injured Stacy Lewis, sitting out.
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But this was the first time since the Ryder Cup began in 1927 that a European team had swept an alternate shot, or foursomes, session.
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The first nine foursomes to tee off at Deutsche Bank's Beijing golf invitational in October 2003 were a predictable mix of German and Chinese executives.
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The second most prolific major champion of all time now has nine wins, 19 losses and one halved match in Ryder Cup fourball and foursomes.
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If singles results are hard to forecast, then fourballs and foursomes are even tougher: how good is a pair with one world-beater and one journeyman?
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Next year's U.S. Women's Open will be played at his Bedminster, New Jersey, club, where the going rate for rarely available non-member foursomes is $2900,2900.
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"I think Darren was sensible keeping Willett out of it," Jacklin told Reuters in an interview referring to the player lineup for Friday morning's opening foursomes.
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After the draw was made on Thursday for this week's opening foursomes, Clarke said Willett would definitely make his first playing appearance in Friday's afternoon fourballs.
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There was no respite for Spieth as he was back in action in the afternoon foursomes, again with Thomas, against Europe's Tommy Fleetwood and Francesco Molinari.
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He helped lift Rory McIlroy out of a morning funk as they rallied to defeat Bubba Watson and Webb Simpson, 4 and 33, in the foursomes.
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They picked up seven of eight possible points in the format, which more than made up for the slightly better European record in the foursomes (alternate shot).
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Woods, whose Ryder Cup record is mediocre for a 14-times major champion, will not feature again until Saturday, after being left out of the afternoon foursomes.
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After sitting out on Friday morning, Garcia and Poulter both played very well in winning afternoon foursomes matches — Garcia with Alex Noren and Poulter with Rory McIlroy.
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Would the gentlemen of Muirfield prefer not to play with the top two male golfers in the world because their foursomes and speedy play would be endangered?
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Thomas Bjorn's men began the day 219-229 ahead, ended the morning fourballs 25-24 to the good and consolidated their advantage during the foursomes despite American resistance.
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And the stage was set for more fireworks when Tiger Woods, the United States captain, announced he was pairing Simpson and Reed in the third foursomes match Friday.
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But the Internationals could hear the drums beating when Woods's team roared back on Saturday afternoon, dominating the foursomes 3-1 to cut the deficit to two points.
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Love was thinking of giving Patrick Reed and Jordan Spieth a rest for the afternoon fourballs after Europe had won the morning foursomes 2 113/2 - 1 1/2.
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CHASKA, Minnesota (Reuters) - Quotes from the opening foursomes session at the Ryder Cup matches between teams representing the United States and Europe at Hazeltine National Golf Club on Friday.
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But like the wind, they picked up in the afternoon, sweeping the four alternate shot, or foursomes, matches to take a 5-3 lead and the momentum into Saturday.
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It is in the team formats that Woods has really struggled — 5-133-0 in fourball (best ball) and 4-8-1 in foursomes, the quirky alternate shot format.
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The Swede returned to Team Europe in 2008, partnering Harrington in both foursomes sessions at the Valhalla Golf Club in Kentucky, when the U.S. emerged with a convincing victory.
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Tiger Woods's team trailed in all five foursomes matches early but roared home to share the points on day two and hold the Internationals to a 6.5-3.5 lead.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Sergio Garcia repaid his Ryder Cup captain's faith with a crushing 5&4 foursomes victory alongside Sweden's Alex Noren against Phil Mickelson and Bryson Dechambeau on Friday.
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Anne van Dam, Caroline Hedwall, Anna Nordqvist and Suzann Pettersen will sit out the foursomes, which will be followed in the afternoon by four matches of four ball (better ball).
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Paired up with Simpson, he lost in Thursday's fourballs and the foursomes on day two, and was well beaten on Saturday morning by East Asian aces Hideki Matsuyama and Pan.
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The Internationals have not finished with a winning record in the foursomes since 1998 and were thrashed 7-2 in the format at Liberty National, New Jersey, two years ago.
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Dustin Johnson and Gary Woodland led the way with a 2&1 victory over the Internationals' most senior pairing of Louis Oosthuizen and Adam Scott in the first foursomes match.
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Spaniard Rahm and American Palmer carded an assured final-round three-under-par 69 in the unforgiving alternate shot foursomes format in demanding conditions on the bone-dry TPC Louisiana layout.
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Overnight leaders by five strokes, the former University of Illinois college mates bogeyed the 15th to see their lead shrink to two shots during the final foursomes at Metropolitan Golf Club.
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However, they played majestically for two-and-a-half days, ambushing the Americans 4-1 in the Thursday fourballs and sharing the points in the Friday foursomes, their traditional Achilles heel.
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Leading by seven at the turn, they were even threatening to set a new record win in Ryder Cup foursomes since Europe combined to take on the United States in 1979.
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However, the decibel level soon started rising as the Europeans stormed out of the blocks for the afternoon foursomes, delivering a birdie blitz that had cheers and roars reverberating around the course.
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In contrast to Mickelson's shotgun pairings of the past, he knew that he would be teamed with Fowler in foursomes well ahead of this event, affording them time to synchronize their games.
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"He (Sutton) and I have communicated and he knows how sorry I am that I brought that up," Mickelson told Golf Channel on Thursday at Hazeltine ahead of Friday's opening foursomes matches.
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A touch embarrassed after performing miserably in the foursomes and four-ball matches, the Internationals performed much better in man-to-man play on Sunday, though it was too little, too late.
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Earlier, Americans Jessica and Nelly Korda had become the first sister pairing to earn a point at the Solheim Cup but Team Europe emerged from the foursomes with a one-point lead.
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Soon, the boats docked and the foursomes were chained together and sent on a six-mile beach run, with the Brits getting a five-minute head start for winning the first day.
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The power-hitting Johnson and ultra-consistent Kuchar would pair up well in the fourball format, though the 2016 Ryder Cup will start on Friday morning with the opening foursomes (alternate shot) matches.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - United States captain Tiger Woods elected to rest himself from the afternoon foursomes at the Presidents Cup on Saturday, even with his team trailing the Internationals 9-5 at Royal Melbourne.
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Having put on a wet weather clinic during the foursomes on Friday, the tall Belgian duo thrived in dry conditions to shoot nine-under 63 in the four-ball format at Metropolitan Golf Club.
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In his role as an assistant captain, he stood off the green, in the peripheral vision of Si Woo Kim of South Korea, who missed a three-foot putt to extend a foursomes match.
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Woods sat out both the morning fourball and afternoon foursomes on Saturday but will play against the impressive Mexican debutant Abraham Ancer on Sunday as he looks to seize early momentum for the Americans.
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The biennial team event consists of two sessions each of fourballs and foursomes plus 12 singles on the final day and Kaymer hinted that the holders would opt for experience in the alternate-shot format.
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"In foursomes I believe the statistics say that with two rookies playing together there is a seven percent chance they will win their match," the 31-year-old German told Reuters in a telephone interview.
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Threesomes and foursomes are as common as missionary positions and cuddling in his feed, and the materials and styles are as diverse as the veritable Kama Sutra of sexual positions that spring from his mind.
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"We didn't come here to win the foursomes, we came here to win something else," said Francesco Molinari, who teamed with the Ryder Cup rookie Tommy Fleetwood to win two matches for Europe on Friday.
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Dustin Johnson and Gary Woodland play the Internationals' Adam Scott and Louis Oosthuizen in the opening foursomes, with Americans Justin Thomas and Rickie Fowler to meet Marc Leishman and Abraham Ancer in the second match.
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It was the only victory in five foursomes (alternate shot) matches by the Internationals, who also eked out a halve in another match to finish the opening day trailing 3-1/2 to 1-1/2.
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The U.S. misfire is a boost for local crowds and the tournament organizers, with 43-year-old Woods naming himself in Friday's foursomes with Thomas rather than sitting out to manage the team from the sidelines.
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The Americans established a healthy lead on Friday and Saturday in the foursomes (featuring two opposing pairs, each with a single ball that they take turns to hit) and fourballs (where each player has his own ball).
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LONDON (Reuters) - Europe will field six rookies in this month's Ryder Cup against the United States but captain Darren Clarke may not pick many of the newcomers in the foursomes matches, according to wildcard choice Martin Kaymer.
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All nine went on to win or retain the Ryder Cup, including the Americans in 2016 when they took a 4-0 lead after the opening series of foursomes at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn.
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An Byeong-hun and Hideki Matsuyama had looked like a pair of sacrificial lambs when they were sent out in the foursomes to take on former world number one Thomas and U.S. captain Woods at Royal Melbourne.
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Shortly after Patrick Reed and Webb Simpson lost the last match 1-up to the east Asian duo of Hideki Matsuyama and CT Pan, Woods announced he would return on Friday with Thomas for the opening foursomes.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The United States rallied late in Friday's foursomes at the Presidents Cup to hold the Internationals to a 6.5-3.5 lead after Ernie Els' team threatened to run away with the event at Royal Melbourne.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Soren Kjeldsen and Thorbjorn Olesen remained on course to claim a first World Cup of Golf for Denmark after shooting a two-under-par 70 in Saturday's foursomes to extend their overnight lead to four strokes.
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His record speaks to his unease as a team player: Woods, a 14-time major champion and a longtime world No. 22, is 21-21-22 in foursomes and four-ball matches, and 21-22016-103 in singles.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Rafa Cabrera Bello rolled in a long birdie putt on the 183th hole to give Spain a one-shot lead after the opening round of foursomes at the World Cup of Golf in Melbourne on Thursday.
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The weather is forecast to improve on Friday and through the weekend at the event, which features 80 two-player teams playing fourball in the first and third rounds and foursomes in the second and a final rounds.
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Though Willett was a notable absentee from the pairings for Friday's foursomes matches, Europe captain Darren Clarke said his omission had nothing to do with the off-course furore sparked earlier in the week by the player's brother, Pete.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Friday's foursomes whitewash was "right at the top" of Ryder Cup sessions in memory, European captain Thomas Bjorn said after his team turned around a disappointing morning to close the first day with a 5-3 lead.
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Because of how well they all got along, he said, the players could be mixed and matched like interchangeable parts in the foursomes and four-ball matches, where they built a 20143-22014 lead in the first two days.
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Led by a group of gifted players who were in diapers when Mickelson first played in this event, the United States won 6½ of the 8 points available in the morning foursomes and in the afternoon four-ball matches.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The United States clawed back into contention at the Presidents Cup on Saturday by dominating the afternoon foursomes, but late scrambling by the Internationals secured a 218-218 lead heading into the final day at Royal Melbourne.
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The Internationals stretched their lead to 9-183 after winning the early fourballs 2.5-1.5, before Woods's team dug deep to claim the afternoon foursomes 3-1, defying huge crowds that grew increasingly hostile as the day wore on.
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The 24-year-old Pieters, who triumphed 3 and 2 in his last-day singles against JB Holmes and lost in the company of Englishman Lee Westwood in Friday's opening foursomes, was Europe's leading scorer with four points from five matches.
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O'Connell, a lock who was capped 108 times by Ireland and played seven tests for the British and Irish Lions, is known for his inspirational talks and Clarke wanted him to speak to his players ahead of Friday's opening foursomes matches.
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Mickelson and Woods, put "in a position to fail", were beaten 2&1 by Colin Montgomerie and Padraig Harrington in the opening fourball matches at Oakland Hills before losing one down to Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood in the foursomes.
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CHASKA, Minnesota (Reuters) - Patrick Reed, who memorably tried to 'shush' the 2014 Gleneagles crowd by putting his index finger to his lips, looks like he is ready to make a big noise for the U.S. in Friday's opening Ryder Cup foursomes.
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Badly bruised after being swept 21975-210 by the Americans in the morning's foursomes at Hazeltine National, the Europeans showed great strength of character as they won the second session 21927-1 with some sparkling golf in dazzling afternoon sunshine.
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Three points down after the first day, it seemed for a time that they could end Friday's foursomes six points adrift, a huge deficit even for a team with all 12 players ranked inside the top 24 in the world.
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CHASKA, Minnesota (Reuters) - Players weigh in on their foursomes matches in Friday's opening session of the 41st Ryder Cup at Hazeltine National (United States first): - - Match 1Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed v Justin Rose (England) and Henrik Stenson (Sweden) "I'm pumped," said Reed.
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Scafaria originally came onboard as a screenwriter; as her script was sent to the likes of Martin Scorsese, she started making her own case to direct, complete with a sizzle reel, heavy on images of powerful female foursomes, to explain her concepts.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The United States conjured up some magic moments on the 18th green to fight back in Friday's foursomes and hold the Internationals to a 6.5-3.5 lead after Ernie Els' team threatened to deliver a decisive blow at the Presidents Cup.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Patrick Reed played up to his role as pantomime villain at the Presidents Cup on Friday when he made a shoveling gesture during his foursomes match in a defiant reference to his controversial bunker penalty in the Bahamas last week.
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All eyes were then fixed on the fourth match of the day where Americans Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas held off Ian Poulter and Jon Rahm 2&133 to stem the bleeding and keep the U.S. clinging to Europe's coat tails ahead of the foursomes.
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After Team Europe moved ahead by 226-13/21 to 230-217/2 in the morning foursomes on the PGA Centenary Course, Americans Ally McDonald and Angel Yin brought the scores level with a dominant 7 & 5 victory over Anna Nordqvist and Caroline Hedwall.
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Jordan Spieth showed off his stellar short game and Ryan Palmer made key putts as they posted a six-under-par 66 in foursomes for a share of the lead in the Zurich Classic, the first team event on the PGA Tour in 36 years.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Francesco Molinari and Tommy Fleetwood won their foursomes on Saturday to become the first European duo to sweep all four pairs matches and are on course for even more history as Europe take a 10-6 lead into the final day of the Ryder Cup.
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On Golf JERSEY CITY — Tiger Woods staked out a spot off to the side of the 220th green and cast a long, cold shadow on Si Woo Kim, the Presidents Cup rookie who was bent over a three-foot putt to extend Thursday's third foursomes match.
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Chris Paul, J.J. Redick, Blake Griffin, and DeAndre Jordan have formed one of the most fearsome foursomes in the league during that time, and is the only four-man unit in the NBA to share the floor for at least 400 minutes in each of the last four seasons, per NBA.com.
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I've found myself in many awkward situations that either resulted in accidental foursomes or being lured into shady Toronto after-hours spots (one with drag queens and an ex-Canadian Idol winner, which was awesome but still) because I couldn't opt out or read warning signs while being on dates—all because of my crippling anxiety and the desire to fit in.
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Think watching porn; attending life drawing classes and sketching a muscled nude model; hooking up with a coworker; getting nude photos taken of me and then hooking up with the photographer; anal play; anal porn; making out with women; dating a tall, dark, divorced, South American musician who's nine years my senior; opening up our relationship; threesomes; sex parties; foursomes… Each time, I dove into the foreign and forbidden activity with the need and delight of a child from an organic hippie commune tasting her first Hershey's Bar.
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