Too Close to Call

10/31/2009

With just four men left in the 2009 Volvo World Match Play Championship, both semi-finals are all-square at the halfway stage, perfectly poised for a drama-packed penultimate afternoon.

The semi-finals of the Volvo World Match Play Championship could not be closer as the players head in for lunch and a well-earned break before what will be the decisive 18 holes of golf to determine who makes it through to Sunday’s grand final.

First-off at 8.15am, Anthony Kim and Robert Allenby and there was little more than a hole between the pair all morning, Kim saying, “It was good, we battled well out there,” whilst Allenby’s take on proceedings was, “A very even match, we both played really well and made a bunch of birdies.”

Second out was the Anglo-Argentinean match-up between Ross Fisher, who has played the ‘majors’ so well this season and the man who bagged one, US Masters champion Angel Cabrera.

“Very satisfying,” said Fisher during the mid-match interval, adding, “I felt I got better as the round got on,” whilst Cabrera, the narrow favourite at the outset this morning said, “We are level, the same as when we started. I will go out there this afternoon, give it all and try to win.”

Kim against Allenby restarts 13.25hrs, CET, followed by the Cabrera versus Fisher match at 13.40hrs CET.

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