For the first two days, each captain divides his teams into pairs which compete in a variety of 18-hole match play competitions known as fourballs and foursomes.
If it's an 18-hole match, you might play the first 15 the way you'd always play them, but then if you're down you might have to be a little bit more aggressive.
Arriving within five minutes results in the loss of the first hole in match play or two strokes at the first hole in stroke play.
McIlroy and Woods have built up a friendship in recent months, playing a much-hyped 18-hole exhibition match in China on Monday.
And he held his nerve, sinking a 15-foot birdie putt on the 16th to go two holes up with two to play and Mahan capitulated on the 17th, fluffing a chip to the green and eventually conceding the hole and match.
Kraft hits a series of fine shots to set up a 12-foot par putt to win the hole and square the match.
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Mahan has now been ahead in every match he has played at the tournament since the sixth hole of last year's opening match -- a run of 133 holes.
The youngster rolled home a clutch birdie putt on the 16th to halve the hole and stay in the match, but former U.S. Open champion Ogilvy would not be denied and earned a semifinal place with another birdie on the 17th.
Uihlein responded by hitting his own 100-yard approach to within four feet, then clinched the match on the next hole.
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Lehman carded a five-under 67 on the difficult south course to move to 15 under and match the 36-hole record.
Then in his next match, there was his mistake on the 15th hole on Tundra Peak.
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The 53-year-old Funk failed to match his rivals' birdies at the first extra hole, the 18th, then Roberts and McNulty were again deadlocked as it was replayed.
Bradley shot 10-under 60, completed by that short birdie at the 428-yard ninth hole, to break the TPC Four Seasons course record and match the best round ever at the Nelson.
For more than an hour he had tried but failed to get his team Chelsea out of a big hole as the London team desperately attempted to turn their season round in a cup match against Welsh side Swansea City.
Poulter and Fisher were one up in their match before a superb birdie from Woods on the ninth helped the Americans take a one-hole lead.
On the 16th hole at Belmont, Brady and Damon Huard, his backup, each had 30-foot putts to win the match.
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Located between Marbella and Sotogrande in the Costa del Sol, Finca Cortesin is a coastal development set by an 18-hole golf course of the same name, which opened in 2006 and this year plays hosts to the Volvo World Match Play Championship.
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