Ryder Cup 2018 - as it happened: Team Europe take control over USA on day two
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Europe seized control of the 2018 Ryder Cup on a thrilling second day in Paris.
The hosts took the morning fourballs 3-1 before keeping that advantage in the afternoon foursomes to take what could prove a decisive 10-6 lead into the final day.
Here's how it played out:
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Preview
What time does it start?
It all gets underway at 7.10am on Saturday morning with the opening fourballs.
Where can I watch it?
The whole tournament is being broadcast on Sky Sports Golf. You can also stream it online via SkyGo. It is also available on NowTV.
For those without access to any of those The Independent will be live blogging the entire weekend.
Who's playing?
Some of the very best golfers on the planet. Tiger Woods leads the American team while new world number one Justin Rose is Europe's leading light.
Who's going to win?
USA Evens
Europe 5/4
Draw 11/1
Poulter & McIlroy vs Spieth & Thomas (3UP)
McIlroy's got the telescope out on the green here. He's some 65 foot from the hole and he has to go onto the fringe to ride the slope and mountaineer his way up a hill. He's up to the former but the latter bests him. It's sprinted ten feet past the hole but Poulter makes it. It was all over if he missed that.
Rose & Stenson (1UP) vs Koepka & Johnson
Brooks Koepka hits the bullseye on fifteen with a peach of an iron shot. It's less than a foot from the hole and is conceded immediately. Stenson hits a good shot to give Rose a chance but he can't hole it from just over ten feet and all of a sudden this match is really tight again with three holes to play.
Rose & Stenson (1UP) vs Koepka & Johnson
Koepka follows it up with a solid shot into the par-3 sixteenth but Stenson has tugged it and it's gone way past the hole. Rose needs a great chip down the hill here.
Rose & Stenson (1UP) vs Koepka & Johnson
It's impossible to stop it down the slope though. It's rolled way past. It's Johnson next. He has the line but it runs out of breath with just a few inches to go.
Rose & Stenson (1UP) vs Koepka & Johnson
Rose & Stenson are looking at this one together now. It's the Swede to hit it and this is a huge moment. In!
One up, two to play.
Garcia & Noren vs Watson & Simpson (4UP)
While that was all going on the Europeans have gone down dormie-four in the second match. Garcia had a six footer for a birdie and the half on fourteen but he's missed.
Poulter & McIlroy vs Spieth & Thomas (4UP)
Spieth & Thomas have pulled four clear now. They get a birdie at thirteen and Poulter & McIlroy just can't find a birdie anywhere. All but done in this one too.
Rose & Stenson (1UP) vs Koepka & Johnson
Johnson has hit a horrible pull off the seventeenth tee just when he needed to heap on the pressure. It's a really horrible shot and it's deep in the hay. Stenson goes sensible as a result and finds the fairway
Rose & Stenson (1UP) vs Koepka & Johnson
Hulk Koepka hacks it out the hay well though and it just comes up short of the green. Rose misjudges it and they're also short. It's a chip-off and Johnson's stabby little lob wedge was ugly but effective. Rose's wasn't brilliant either.
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