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Retief Goosen

South Africa's Ernie Els kept his winning streak going in stunning fashion by holing a 20-foot eagle putt on the 16th green to complete a 3 and 2 win over Jim Furyk and Jay Haas with his compatriot Tim Clark.

The cheers rang out across the Fancourt's Links and before the noise had subsided the roars continued as good news poured in from the course.

K.J. Choi's partnership with Adam Scott resulted in the day's biggest margin of victory. The pair hammered rookie Jerry Kelly and three-time winner on the PGA Tour in 2003, Kenny Perry by 5 and 4.

Australian pair Peter Lonard and Stephen Leaney combined to bank a surprise point for the home side with a 2 and 1 win over Fred Funk and Phil Mickelson.

Mickelson hung his head on the 17th green as neither he nor his partner could do better than a bogey four and the left-hander slumped to his fourth defeat in as many matches this week.

Tiger Woods lost his second match of the week as he and partner Charles Howell III fell at the hands of Vijay Singh and Retief Goosen on the 17th hole at the end of a five-hole birdie streak from the Internationals.

Minutes later there were further celebrations for the home team on the 17th green when Stuart Appleby and Nick Price halved in par-threes with Davis Love III and David Toms for a 2 and 1 win.

The only match to go to up the 18th hole was the penultimate clash of the day, and that only after one of the day's best periods of play from Chris DiMarco and Justin Leonard.

The US pair played the closing six holes in six under par, a run kick-started by an eagle three on the 13th hole and then followed by three consecutive birdies. But it was too little too late for the visitors and when the 18th hole was halved in a birdie four, the whitewash was complete.

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