PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) — U.S. Amateur champion Mason Howell delivered more big moments at Cypress Point as the Americans took a one-point lead into the Sunday afternoon singles as they tried to win the Walker Cup for a fifth straight time.

Howell, the Georgia high school senior who earned his spot on the U.S. team by winning the Amateur up the coast at Olympic Club last month, holed a 35-foot birdie putt on the par-3 15th for the match to go dormie, then ended it by holing out from the fairway on the par-4 17th.

That gave the 18-year-old Howell and Jacob Modleski a 2-and-1 victory over Stuart Grehan and Eliot Baker and capped off a morning foursomes session that ended with two wins apiece.

Jackson Koivun and Tommy Morrison escaped with a 1-up win. The GB&I duo of Connor Graham and

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