Congratulations Joerg, it was a hard-fought and much deserved win for ROW.
A combination of good luck and good play for me plus a Joerg's only bad putt of the match got me off to a quick 3-up. After that, I couldn't keep up with Joerg's excellent putting. I left a 7.2 footer on the lip on 4 and made a strategic blunder on 7 by attempting a full 3W into the turkey neck when Joerg was in the bunker off the tee. I pulled into brush while Joerg smartly recovered and stuck his 4th close.
I seemed to recapture the momentum on 8 with the 38-footer that Joerg mentioned, but the match turned around the turn, where Joerg stole the 9th from my grasp by nailing a 22 footer before I missed from 10, then repeated the feat almost inch-for-inch on the 10th.
Joerg took the lead with a 10-footer on 12, and I lost the 14th with a pulled and short drive into a horrible sidehill brush lie that I botched, hitting intentionally late but forgetting that doing so with starters risks a flub. That's what I got, and had to hack out.
An approach to 6 feet and an easy conversion on 17 kept hope of a rally for AS alive, and a fairly fortunate bounce and roll put the split within reach when Joerg rolled up to 3-putt range on the top shelf. His 3rd or 4th perfect lag to gimme distance meant that I'd have to make my mild-breaking18-footer, but I yanked it.
It was a heck of a lot of fun playing a meaningful match filled with brand-new challenges. Huge thanks to Corwyn for organizing this event!