The 2018 EurAsia Cup presented by
DRB-HICOM was the third edition of the
EurAsia Cup, a team
golf event contested between teams representing
Asia and
Europe. It was held from 12–14 January at the Glenmarie Golf and Country Club in
Shah Alam,
Selangor,
Malaysia. The team captains were
Thomas Bjørn and
Arjun Atwal.
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.
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.
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Teams
''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 the 2017 Asian Tour
The 2017 Asian Tour is the 23rd season of the modern Asian Tour, the main men's professional golf tour in Asia excluding Japan, since it was established in 1995.
Schedule
The following table lists official events during the 2017 season.
Unoffic ...
Order of Merit as of 27 November, the leading four eligible and available Asian players from the Official World Golf Ranking
The Official World Golf Ranking is a system for rating the performance level of professional golfers. It was started in 1986.
The rankings are based on a player's position in individual tournaments (i.e. not pairs or team events) over a "rolli ...
as of 27 November, and four captain’s picks. The leading four Asian players from the Asian Tour Order of Merit were Gavin Green (1), Shiv Chawrasia (4), Phachara Khongwatmai (5) and Poom Saksansin
Poom Saksansin (; born 4 June 1993) is a Thai professional golfer.
Saksansin represented Thailand at the 2010 Asian Games, the 2011 and 2013 Southeast Asian Games and the 2012 Eisenhower Trophy. At the 2011 Southeast Asian Games, he won the gold ...
(6). The leading Asian players from the Official World Golf Ranking were Hideki Matsuyama (5), Yuta Ikeda (37), Kim Si-woo (40), Satoshi Kodaira (53), Li Haotong (57), Kiradech Aphibarnrat (59) and Anirban Lahiri (65). Matsuyama, Kim and Kodaira did not play. The captain's picks were Hideto Tanihara
is a Japanese professional golfer. He has won 17 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour.
Professional career
Tanihara has won 14 tournaments on the Japan Golf Tour and featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking. His highest ranking ...
, Kang Sung-hoon, An Byeong-hun and Nicholas Fung.
''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 final 2017 European Tour
The 2017 European Tour was the ninth edition of the Race to Dubai and the 46th season of golf tournaments since the European Tour officially began in 1972.
England's Tommy Fleetwood won the Race to Dubai. Spanish golfers collected the annual awar ...
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) and Rory McIlroy
Rory Daniel McIlroy (born 4 May 1989) is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who is a member of both the European and PGA Tours. He is the current world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking, and has spent over 100 weeks in tha ...
(13) chose not to participate. Lévy and Casey were chosen as captain picks.
Schedule
*12 January (Friday) Four-ball x 6
*13 January (Saturday) Foursomes x 6
*14 January (Sunday) Singles x 12
Friday's matches (four-ball)
Saturday's matches (foursomes)
Sunday's matches (singles)
References
External links
*{{official website, http://www.eurasiacup.com/
Coverage on the European Tour's official siteCoverage on the Asian Tour's official site
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