2017 Dacoity Cup Day 2

On Day 2 of this year's Dacoity Cup it rained. And rained. And rained. Everyone was wet through just from a few minutes on the putting green, and as the day went on it got wetter and wetter. This contributed to a slow pace of play which resulted in the rounds taking more than five and a half hours! 

Nobody enjoyed being out in the pouring rain for any longer than necessary and there were some frustrated golfers by the time darkness fell, particularly as they were still out on the course when that actually happened. 

Despite teeing off at 2.30pm, the players were still late for dinner scheduled for 8pm, and this on top of the dreadful conditions made for some unhappy golfers arriving back at their hotel - never keep a mediocre golfer from his food!  

So who coped with the conditions best? Here are the results:

Fourballs:

Hay & Hicks 41 lost to Talbot & A McDougall 60
Ives & Morell 51 beat Brownlee & Stone 39
Cartwright & Hues 64 beat C McDougall & Dunbar 43

England 61/2 Rest of the World 51/2

So England edge the fourballs and take the lead. And then the draw for the singles was revealed:

Singles:

Hay 20 beat C McDougall 18
Ives 25 beat Stone 19
Cartwright 39 beat Talbot 32
Hues 25 beat Brownlee 20
Hicks 21 lost to A McDougall 28
Morell 26 beat Dunbar 25

England 111/2 Rest of the World 61/2

England win the day's singles 5-1 to open up a good lead going into the final day. Genius captaincy by Ken Hicks got them an almost ideal set up of matches. Talbot's more laissez faire approach had back fired. With a more fortunate draw, ROW might have won the session 31/2 to 2 1/2, but as it turned out England instead blew it open by taking 5 points out of 6.

During the day, and despite the appalling conditions, Ken made the shot of the week by holing out from 60 yards, to take the Johann van der Merwe trophy.