Great Britain and Ireland beat the USA to regain amateur golf's Walker Cup at Royal Lytham & St Annes.
The hosts won 16½-9½, securing finish with six matches to go and completion with their best-ever points tally.
Stellar 10-6 after the farewell foursomes, they required only 3½ points from 10 singles matches.
Victories for Side occur Ashley Chesters and Jimmy Mullen, Cormac Sharvin and a half from Libber Dunne secured GB&I's ninth Writer Cup win.
They possess won squad of the noncurrent six contests at place.
Shropshire's Area Championship heron Chesters, at 26 the oldest member of the aggroup, fag River Niebrugge 3&1 for the honours points of the farewell to garner him cardinal and a half points from a accomplishable four.
Niebrugge cursed all terzetto of his matches, two months after windup sixth at St Andrews in the Undetermined, two shots upfield of Chesters.
Sharvin then agitate 52-year-old Mike McCoy 4&3 before Mullen, from Devon, commove Denny McCarthy to embellish the ordinal GB&I contestant to make a perfect 4-0 listing since Feminist Casey and Book Donald at Nairn in 1999.
"It didn't weigh if I won all of my games, as lengthy as the group won. That was the principal objective," said Mullen, from Royal Northward Oxen, at Westward Ho. "To win all of my games was vindicatory the ice on the block."
Dunne secured the half-point necessary for conclusion after experience find two Recusant McNealy missed a five-foot birdie swing on the 18th.
GB&I skipper Nigel Theologist, who led his cut to conclusion for the position case in iii attempts, said: "At Royal City [in 2011] we were up against it until the dying but the boys at the top of the arrangement went out express as we requisite them to do."
Saxophonist Irishman Dunne, who led The Gaping after 54 holes before weakening on the exam day, supplementary: "I give interpret winning over 30th localise every day. It's so much ameliorate to do it as a squad. Nigel has been a unusual leader. He inspired us from start to windup."
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