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Here are the complete pairings and starting times for Sunday\u2019s foursomes matches at Lahinch. <\/p>\n
Fang called Thursday, when he and Jennings missed the entire day of practice, \u201cprobably the worst day of my life,\u201d but admitted an extra day of rest was a silver lining.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was definitely a battle,\u201d Fang said. \u201cI just knew we needed a point.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stewart Hagestad improved his career singles record to 8-1 while Jay Leng took down GB&I\u2019s highest-ranked player, Tyler Weaver. But GB&I countered by taking the final three matchups.<\/p>\n
Niall Sheils Donegan beat Tyler Watts, 3 and 2, to finish as the only 2-0 player on either side on Saturday. Eliot Baker handled Josiah Gilbert, who marked the only change for Sunday morning foursomes \u2013 he was swapped out for Jennings, who will team with Ryder Cowan in the anchor match against Donegan and Josh Hill.<\/p>\n
Luke Poulter, who hadn\u2019t quite been himself this summer, spent last week back at the University of Florida\u2019s facility, fine-tuning his swing; he didn\u2019t play a single round of golf, per his head coach J.C. Deacon. The hard work paid off as Poulter never trailed against 17-year-old wonderkid Miles Russell, who linked with Watts to post the only full American foursomes point of the morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI needed that finish,\u201d Poulter said. \u201cI was playing really good all day.\u201d<\/p>\n
He certainly wasn\u2019t alone. After combining for 15 under in foursomes, GB&I was a collective 20 under in the singles.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s probably the finest golf tournament, day of golf I\u2019ve ever been involved in,\u201d Robertson said. \u201cI think the Walker Cup has just been an amazing showcase of what the game is all about in its purest form. To be ahead, we\u2019re thrilled at that. \u2026. But we\u2019re under no illusions.\u201d<\/p>\n
GB&I will enter Sunday with its seventh lead on home soil since 1963, when the first day of the Walker Cup was changed to four foursomes and eight singles matches. In the previous six instances, however, GB&I has only converted half of their Day 1 advantages into wins while the U.S. has lifted the trophy each of the past two times, in 2019 and 2023.<\/p>\n
This is the smallest lead, too, at only a single point.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re up a point but we feel good,\u201d said U.S. captain Nathan Smith. \u201cWe kind of knew what we were in for, and I feel like everybody, it\u2019s right there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robertson was admittedly nervous when the wind laid down for much of Saturday. <\/p>\n
\u201cFrom a five-club wind [on Friday], we went to California again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Well, Sunday\u2019s forecast won\u2019t be anything like the Golden State. Nearly 40 mph gusts are expected by lunchtime along with \u201cpersistent outbreaks of rain.\u201d Theoretically, those conditions should favor the home team; Oklahoma\u2019s Cowan was quoted in a social-media video earlier this week saying he\u2019d never played in a rain jacket before. <\/p>\n
But in reality, the brutal weather will, if anything, make Sunday unpredictable.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlaying in that kind of weather requires grit and you need to be able to adapt and just keep the ball moving in front of you,\u201d Robertson said. \u201cA lot of the time it can become a bit damage limitation. Irrespective, it\u2019s going to be exciting, because there will be a lot of people here, and it\u2019s match play, so it\u2019s man against man and it\u2019s the low score each hole. So, we have a plan and we\u2019ll be prepared.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robertson\u2019s concern was that the bad weather would keep many of their supporters \u2013 perhaps many of the fans swarming Grehan on Saturday\u2013 indoors for the final two sessions. Last year, GB&I trailed by only one before tallying just 1.5 singles points out of a possible 10 in a heavy fog that blanketed Cypress Point\u2019s iconic oceanside holes down the stretch.<\/p>\n
Regardless of how Sunday plays out, Grehan said of Saturday\u2019s singles win, \u201cIt\u2019s something I\u2019ll always remember for rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
He just wouldn\u2019t mind topping it.<\/p>\n
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