Dates | 12–14 January 2018 | ||||
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Venue | Glenmarie Golf and Country Club | ||||
Location | Shah Alam,Selangor,Malaysia | ||||
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Europe wins theEurAsia Cup | |||||
The2018 EurAsia Cup presented byDRB-HICOM was the third edition of theEurAsia Cup, a teamgolf event contested between teams representingAsia andEurope. It was held from 12 to 14 January at the Glenmarie Golf and Country Club inShah Alam,Selangor,Malaysia. The team captains wereThomas Bjørn andArjun Atwal.[1]
The event had a$4,800,000 purse; $300,000 to each member of the winning team and $100,000 to each member of the losing team.[2]
Europe won the match 14 to 10. Asia had held a narrow 6½ to 5½ lead at the start of the final day's singles session but Europe won 8 of the first 9 matches and retained the trophy.[3][2]
Asia | |||||||||||
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Player | Country | Age | Money list ranks | OWGR | Previous appearances | Matches | W–L–H | Winning percentage | |||
Asian | Japan | Euro | PGA Tour | ||||||||
Arjun Atwal | ![]() | 44 | Non-playing captain | ||||||||
Gavin Green | ![]() | 24 | 1 | 179 | 0 | Rookie | |||||
Shiv Chawrasia | ![]() | 39 | 5 | 109 | 214 | 1 | 3 | 1–2–0 | 33.33 | ||
Phachara Khongwatmai | ![]() | 18 | 3 | 87 | 123 | 159 | 0 | Rookie | |||
Poom Saksansin | ![]() | 24 | 8 | 64 | 188 | 172 | 0 | Rookie | |||
Yuta Ikeda | ![]() | 32 | 4 | 36 | 0 | Rookie | |||||
Li Haotong | ![]() | 22 | 17 | 59 | 0 | Rookie | |||||
Kiradech Aphibarnrat | ![]() | 28 | 11 | 49 | 2 | 6 | 2–3–1 | 41.67 | |||
Anirban Lahiri | ![]() | 30 | 133 | 51 | 68 | 2 | 6 | 3–3–0 | 50.00 | ||
Hideto Tanihara | ![]() | 39 | 55 | 27 | 69 | 1 | 3 | 0–2–1 | 16.67 | ||
Kang Sung-hoon | ![]() | 30 | 59 | 81 | 0 | Rookie | |||||
An Byeong-hun | ![]() | 26 | 93 | 102 | 100 | 1 | 3 | 1–2–0 | 33.33 | ||
Nicholas Fung | ![]() | 27 | 28 | 255 | 335 | 2 | 6 | 0–4–2 | 16.67 |
OWGR as of 7 January.
Yellow background indicates a captain's pick.
The Asian team was selected as follows: the leading four available Asian players from the2017 Asian Tour Order of Merit as of 27 November, the leading four eligible and available Asian players from theOfficial World Golf Ranking as of 27 November, and four captain's picks. The leading four Asian players from the Asian Tour Order of Merit wereGavin Green (1),Shiv Chawrasia (4),Phachara Khongwatmai (5) andPoom Saksansin (6).[4] The leading Asian players from the Official World Golf Ranking wereHideki Matsuyama (5),Yuta Ikeda (37),Kim Si-woo (40),Satoshi Kodaira (53),Li Haotong (57),Kiradech Aphibarnrat (59) andAnirban Lahiri (65). Matsuyama, Kim and Kodaira did not play. The captain's picks wereHideto Tanihara,Kang Sung-hoon,An Byeong-hun andNicholas Fung.
Europe | ||||||||
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Player | Country | Age | Euro rank | OWGR | Previous appearances | Matches | W–L–H | Winning percentage |
Thomas Bjørn | ![]() | 46 | Non-playing captain | |||||
Tommy Fleetwood | ![]() | 26 | 1 | 18 | 0 | Rookie | ||
Tyrrell Hatton | ![]() | 26 | 5 | 17 | 0 | Rookie | ||
Ross Fisher | ![]() | 37 | 6 | 31 | 1 | 3 | 2–0–1 | 83.33 |
Rafa Cabrera-Bello | ![]() | 33 | 7 | 20 | 0 | Rookie | ||
Alex Norén | ![]() | 35 | 8 | 19 | 0 | Rookie | ||
Matt Fitzpatrick | ![]() | 23 | 12 | 29 | 1 | 3 | 2–1–0 | 66.67 |
Bernd Wiesberger | ![]() | 32 | 14 | 42 | 1 | 3 | 2–1–0 | 66.67 |
Henrik Stenson | ![]() | 41 | 15 | 9 | 0 | Rookie | ||
Paul Dunne | ![]() | 25 | 16 | 75 | 0 | Rookie | ||
Thomas Pieters | ![]() | 25 | 20 | 38 | 0 | Rookie | ||
Alexander Lévy | ![]() | 27 | 21 | 74 | 0 | Rookie | ||
Paul Casey | ![]() | 40 | n/a | 14 | 0 | Rookie |
OWGR as of 7 January.
Yellow background indicates a captain's pick.
The European team was selected as follows: the leading 10 available European players from the final2017 European Tour Race to Dubai rankings plus two captain's picks. The qualifiers from the Race to Dubai were Fleetwood (1), Hatton (5), Fisher (6), Cabrera-Bello (7), Norén (8), Fitzpatrick (12), Wiesberger (14), Stenson (15), Dunne (16), and Pieters (20);Justin Rose (2),Jon Rahm (3),Sergio García (4),Francesco Molinari (9) andRory McIlroy (13) chose not to participate. Lévy and Casey were chosen as captain picks.[5]
Asia | Results | Europe |
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An/Aphibarnrat | 4 & 3 | Fleetwood/Casey |
Ikeda/Green | 2 & 1 | Pieters/Fitzpatrick |
Tanihara/Khongwatmai | 2 up | Norén/Dunne |
Kang/Saksansin | 5 & 4 | Stenson/Lévy |
Fung/Li | halved | Wiesberger/Cabrera-Bello |
Lahiri/Chawrasia | 5 & 4 | Fisher/Hatton |
3½ | Session | 2½ |
3½ | Overall | 2½ |
Asia | Results | Europe |
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Chawrasia/Lahiri | 3 & 2 | Fleetwood/Stenson |
Aphibarnrat/An | 2 & 1 | Casey/Hatton |
Green/Ikeda | 1 up | Cabrera-Bello/Lévy |
Saksansin/Kang | 3 & 2 | Fitzpatrick/Pieters |
Khongwatmai/Tanihara | 2 & 1 | Dunne/Norén |
Li/Fung | 3 & 1 | Fisher/Wiesberger |
3 | Session | 3 |
6½ | Overall | 5½ |
Asia | Results | Europe |
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Fung | 4 & 2 | Norén |
Saksansin | 1 up | Casey |
Chawrasia | 2 & 1 | Fleetwood |
Tanihara | 2 & 1 | Stenson |
Green | 4 & 3 | Cabrera-Bello |
Khongwatmai | 2 & 1 | Wiesberger |
Aphibarnrat | 3 & 1 | Lévy |
An | 1 up | Pieters |
Lahiri | 2 & 1 | Hatton |
Kang | halved | Fitzpatrick |
Ikeda | 1 up | Fisher |
Li | 3 & 1 | Dunne |
3½ | Session | 8½ |
10 | Overall | 14 |