1) Steve on 14 ft long, me off right. My pitch gets away a little. Steve pushes his putt past, and I save the half with a 10-footer.
2) I get blown off by the tailwind, then Steve plops his approach around 7 feet away. It was the first of a few such misses for Steve, who didn't have his best day with the putter. Another u&d from me for the half.
3) Steve's drive got away from him, resulting in a fairly nasty-looking lie in the sand. I played a conservative wedge on and below the pin and made an 8-footer to go 1-up.
4) Two mighty whacks with the woods left me short, but in good position. Steve reached...until it rolled back off, leaving a tricky uphill lie. I wedged close, but failed to take advantage when I missed my mark on a 4.7 footer.
5) It became a mutual clown show as we were bedeviled by the R-L wind...halved with bogeys again, thanks to bad ups (Steve rolled back down, I went too far).
6) another missed green for me, long and right. Steve was on, but with a harder shot inches from the right fringe, 46 feet short. Halved with routine pars.
7) We're both on! I lip my 18 footer out, and Steve sinks a 12 footer to square the match.
8) Another missed green for me with a bad pull, but Steve 3-putts from 27 feet across some seriously sloping short grass...I make a straightforward u&d to get back to 1-up.
9) finally a pair of routine birdies, Steve from 6-8 feet long and me from 5 feet left.
10) I got a nice lie and took advantage with a 99% no-spin wedge. Steve had a trickier shot and went off the back. 2up USA.
11) I kept the pressure up with another approach to 5 feet, then felt the pressure when Steve secured his par and my putt turned out to be no gimme - a bit downhill with 9 inches of break. I studied that thing for a while, as it could be a real dagger. Sunk it for the 3-up.
12) IIRC, after I pulled an 11-footer, Steve missed one that I'm sure he usually makes. I did a poor job of documenting all of Steve's shots.
13) Steve's pushed drive got the dreaded "in the brush" screen splash, but he recovered for the half after I slid mine by.
14) More sloppy note-taking here. I had a putt from 11-13 feet that took a full tour of the edge of the cup before dropping for the bird and the 4-up, then an annoying series of discos when my game froze upon trying to save the replay.
15) My tee shot was played safe and missed for good measure, and Steve got nice and close...but I closed out the match with a 21 foot (damn right I want full credit!) big bender. USA 4 & 3.