EurAsia Cup: Day 1 in Numbers

After a blistering performance from Team Europe on day one of the EurAsia Cup presented by DRB-HICOM, europeantour.com took a statistical - and sometimes sideways - look back at the best of the action...

<strong>EURASIA CUP - DAY 1 IN NUMBERS</strong>

<strong>5</strong>- Point lead for Team Europe after clean sweep in day<strong>1</strong>fourball matches

<strong>4&3</strong>- Largest winning margin from Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano and Stephen Gallacher

<strong>10</strong>- Combined shots under par they were on completing the match on the<strong>15</strong>th

<strong>148</strong>- Yardage of Gonzo's<strong>9 </strong>iron approach into the<strong>1</strong>st hole - he found the cup for an opening eagle<strong>2</strong>

<strong>30</strong>- Low<strong> 9</strong>score on day<strong>1</strong>(Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano and Miguel Angel Jimenez on the front<strong>9</strong>)

<strong>2</strong>- Eagles for Jimenez in his opening match at the<strong>3</strong>rd and<strong>11</strong>th plus<strong>3</strong>birdies

<strong>6</strong>- European Eagles in total on day<strong>1</strong>(<strong>4</strong>on the<strong>11</strong>th;<strong>1</strong>on the<strong>1</strong>st;<strong>1</strong>on the<strong>3</strong>rd)

<strong>3</strong>- Holes Graeme McDowell and Jamie Donaldson were down after<strong>7</strong>holes; they went on to win<strong>3&1</strong>

<strong>2</strong>- Matches that went all the way to the<strong>18</strong>th (Bjorn/Olesen vs Oda/Tanihara and McDowell/Donaldson vs Kim Hyung-Sung and Nicholas Fung)

<strong>1</strong>- Inch Joost Luiten was away from his<strong>2</strong>nd albatross of the year after his<strong>2</strong>nd shot into the par<strong>5 11</strong>th (His<strong>1</strong>st came at the Volvo Golf Champions in January)

<strong>5</strong>- Birdies Team Asia's Kiradech Aphibarnrat and Gaganjeet Bhullar both had yet still ended up on the losing side

<strong>2</strong>- Days to come:<strong>5</strong>foursomes matches on Saturday and<strong>10</strong>singles on Saturday

<strong>10.5</strong>- Points needed to win the contest outright

<strong>2 </strong>- The minimum number of celebratory glasses of rioja El Capitano will surely enjoy this evening after a spellbinding day for Team Europe...