After their convincing fourball victory this morning, Europe's Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson blew a two-hole lead to go into the back nine of their foursome match against USA's Hunter Mahan and Zach Johnson all square at the Ryder Cup.
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Rose and Stenson, who won the first point of the contest by defeating Webb Simpson and Bubba Watson 5&4 this morning, picked up where they left off with a birdie at the first to go 1 up.
Holes two, three, four and five were halved before Stenson's arcing tee shot on the sixth gave Rose a chance of a hole-winning birdie which he duly took.
The next two holes would go America's way, though, as a birdie at the seventh was followed up by a short miss from Rose for par at the eighth.
At the par-five ninth, both Stenson and Mahan boomed fairway woods up to the green and the hole was halved in birdie fours.
Follow the second nine with Sports Mole's up-to-the-minute live blog here.
Pascal Lemesre
