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That abomination cost Mahan dear and Rose managed to scramble a half at the 18th - as much as I hate to say it, Hunter is earning a reputation as a man who fluffs his lines as the play reaches its dramatic ending.

Latest score: Europe 13½-9½ US. Latest projected score: Europe 16-12 US.

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Mahan has come up with an abomination of a chip at 18, taking a full swing and sending his ball bounding over the other side of the green. Kaymer has closed his match out with an eagle chip at 16! Down on one knee, giving it the one-handed axe, not often you see the German so animated.

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Tom Fordyce
Chief sports writer at Gleneagles

The thousands round the 16th go ripe bananas as Kaymer's eagle drops to take Europe a point away and complete Bubba's miserable week. A river of faces and waving arms up either side of the fairway, a great lake of them around the green.

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... another singles win for the Americans, Mickelson finally sees off the spirited challenge of Scotland's Stephen Gallacher...

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That approach was enough for Kuchar, another point for the Americans and the fourth stars and stripes arrow since I took over 20 minutes ago...

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Kuchar with his second at 15 and it's a doozy. Kuchar strolls towards the green with that slightly bemused smile of his, as if he's just realised exactly what he wants from life after months of soul-searching. Gallacher makes a mess of his second at 17, that match about to be over...

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Mahan sprays his second into the swell next to the 18th, Donaldson has just nicked another hole against Bradley in match 10...

John Murray
BBC Radio 5 live commentator at Gleneagles

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"I'm sensing a little American swing at the moment."

Mickelson has just holed out for birdie against Gallacher to go dormie two.

Bubba standing over his second at 16, he found the fairway bang middle with his drive. Kaymer, by the way, missed the short stuff with his approach, but Bubba is safely on. Mickelson with his tee shot at the short 17th and he's found sand. Here's Gallacher, the localish boy, and he pushes his tee shot short and right.

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Rose on the tee at 18 and he leaks it into the rough out right. Down at the bottom, Dubuisson and Johnson are level after eight and have halved every hole with a par. Mickelson for the hole at 16, from four feet... nails it, Gallacher being drowned out at sea after a valiant effort to stay afloat...

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Reed with a putt for eagle to win the match at the last, from about 15 feet... choker, misses by the width of a fag paper. Reed sinks to his haunches, no man has given as much as him this week. Stenson has five feet left... tugs it left, the US have their first point of the singles and stem the bleeding.

Latest score: Europe 12-7 US. Latest projected score: Europe 16-12 US.

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Kaymer for par at 15, from 10 feet, leaves it a whisker left. Hole conceded, Bubba gets back to within three...

Bubba with his second to 15 and he stiffs one to within 10 feet, but he's got it all to do against Kaymer, who is four up. Mahan with a long-range birdie putt on 17... starts way right and comes careering back to within a couple of inches of the cup, should make par. Rose for the hole, right to left, doesn't hit it...

Many thanks Mike, this is Ben Dirs. Hunter Mahan is a club short with his tee shot at the par-three 17th, Justin Rose gets his right up there for a makeable birdie putt. Here's Patrick Reed with his second to 18, starting it out right, skipping after it, and that's a peach.

I think the Martin Kaymer point is a banker at dormie four, so where might the final point required by Europe arrive?

Ian Poulter (one up through 10) and Jamie Donaldson (two up though nine) are the other patches of blue in play.

With a couple of halves in the mix as well, the current projected score is Europe 16-12 USA. Here is Ben Dirs to turn projected into reality...

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Jamie Donaldson has moved two up on Keegan Bradley at the turn, while Justin Rose holes a putt to stay within touch, one down to Hunter Mahan after 16.

Four-times Ryder Cup player and former world number one Luke Donald:, external Huge turn around win for GMac, that's how you lead off

Andrew Cotter
BBC Radio 5 live commentator at Gleneagles

"Paul McGinley's just walked back down the fairway like a king with his people surrounding him."

Martin Kaymer with a putt to kill off Bubba Watson on 14, but the last rites will have to wait. Hole halved and onto 15 with the German four up.

Tom Fordyce
Chief sports writer at Gleneagles

"Still plenty of US red on the leaderboard, but with Europe closing in fast on the 14 points needed to retain the Ryder Cup, speculation in the giddy galleries mounts as to who, what and where will nail the pivotal putt. Rammed around the 16th, so that's where the smart money is - but you can't move on the 17th and 18th either, and it's tip-toes room only around the 15th."