The banter began seemingly the day following the european inaugural victory and continued incessantly until the first tee ball was struck at stonewall resort in 2012... team usa hoped that a change in venue might bode well in evening the score of a rivalry in its infancy.. from the early going it was evident that this years cup would be a battle to the finish.. usa jumped out to an early lead after the first 18, but quickly squandered that adavantage by the days end... with an eery simliar 2 point defecit heading into the final day team usa was delt an ever bigger blow when team co- captain and american stalwart jake leibee was forced to withdrawl from the tourney with a severe case of chicken pox.. to say the least the future looked quite ominous... grace was given by european team captain carroll and he allowed me the ability to juggle the lineup and make the tournament as fair as could be with team usa being a man down... with momentum gone and team usa struggling to stay in the match the deficit only climbed to 3 pts entering the final 9 holes.. with singles play about to get going an unexpected turn of events took place when european player jeff humphrey was forced to withdrawl from singles play with a rib injury... the deficit suddenly shrank to 2 pts and at least for me, a sense of hope returned.. not lacking motivation, team usa took advantage of the opportunity to square the rivalry... team usa won 8 out of the 11 pts total for singles and claimed the 2012 Watson Cup!!!
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