And I'm not simply talking approximately the united states group's play on Friday.
Sometimes it is hard to recognize how things can change so speedy in match play. Although america were given no factors on Thursday, the team from Thailand didn't do much better, getting only one point. All that changed on Friday -- the cannot-be-beat groups of Spain (three points) and Chinese Taipei (4 points) located themselves close out through the USA and Thailand. Pool 1 now looks totally unique after 2 rounds.
Perhaps america hadn't taken Yani and Friends severely enough -- GC performed an interview from Tuesday where Stacy Lewis had said the Friday matches against Spain have been the most vital. Perhaps it changed into Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps shaking hands with Creamer and Lewis on the eighth green -- they gained 2 of the subsequent three holes. It's difficult to inform what would possibly shift the momentum of fits.
In Pool 2, it appears that evidently being underestimated is all of the Japan crew needs. After grabbing three points Thursday, they repeated the feat Friday to take the lead of their pool. And just to rub salt into the wound, Ai Miyazato and Sakura Yokomine came from 6 down to steal a point from Sweden. Even Ai seems shocked through their accurate play.
I assume it's time we reevaluated who the powerhouse teams are. In Pool 2 Japan hasn't executed whatever staggering -- one win and one tie each day -- but they may be the most effective undefeated group. And in Pool 1 Thailand is subsequent nice with only one loss, even though their play has been greater erratic. While nobody has locked a place in the finals but, things are a long way greater fragile than every body predicted as we input the 1/3 round these days.
First of all, right here are the pairings from the LPGA.Com pairings page:
| PAIRINGS GUIDE | DAY 3 - SATURDAY 26, 2014 |
| Match 1 | Day 3 |
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| Match 2 | Day 3 |
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| Match 3 | Day 3 |
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| Match 4 | Day 3 |
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| Match 5 | Day 3 |
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| Match 6 | Day 3 |
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| Match 7 | Day 3 |
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Tom Abbott inaccurately said that the Sweden/Australia matches today would be for the wild card spot. No one seems to be taking the Japan/Korea rivalry seriously, although it's a longstanding one -- there will be some juice in those matches! Should Japan hold Korea scoreless today -- certainly within the realm of possibility -- and Sweden and Australia split their matches, Korea will be dead last in the pool without any hope of making the wild card match. And should Sweden or Australia sweep their matches and Korea win no more than 2 points, they still aren't guaranteed the wild card spot.
Pool 1 has such a lot of possible consequences that I can't even list all of them right here. Any team there can lock a gap with 2 wins these days.
Every crew playing today has a cause to need some payback, whether it's a loss of respect or simply an embarrassing reversal of fortunes. I would not count number every body out yet!
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