Wales beat Scotland to reach semi-final

Wales continued their hot streak by beating pre-tournament favourites Scotland to reach the semi-finals of the £1 million Alfred Dunhill Cup at St Andrews.

Led by Ian Woosnam, who beat Colin Montgomerie at the second extra hole after they had tied 73-73, Wales sealed a 3-0 win over the Scots to reach their first semi-final in nine years where they will play South Africa on Sunday.

In the final match of Group 1 Germany condemned England to their third successive defeat, winning 3-0 to leave England rock-bottom of the group.

But it proved to be in vain for the Germans who failed to reach the semi-finals because of Wales' triumph over Scotland.

After Woosnam had accounted for Monty, David Park made the match safe by beating Andrew Coltart by two strokes and Phillip Price was never behind in his match against Gary Orr, winning by three shots with a 69.

"This is the first year we felt we could really compete and Phil and David knew that Scotland needed to win 3-0, so we're delighted with the result," said Woosnam.

"But Monty didn't play well today, nor did I. It was a scrappy match but all I had to do was beat my opponent and I did that."

Monty was bitterly upset with his performance. "Disappointed. I have never putted well round here and it happened again today. It was always going to be difficult for us to win 3-0 but I've now got two weeks off and I am looking forward to spending time with the family."

Fourth seeds South Africa set up a semi-final meeting with Wales after a narrow victory over New Zealand.

The South African's, looking for their third win in four years, looked to be on their way out but fought back brilliantly.

After Grant Waite had given New Zealand an early lead when beating David Frost by four, Greg Turner was one-up on Retief Goosen with one to play and Michael Campbell was one-up on Ernie Els with three to go.

But Campbell bogeyed the 16th and Els birdied the last two to win, then Goosen, having holed from nine feet on the 18th to force Turner into sudden death, saw the Kiwi miss from less than three feet.

In the other match Ireland won the battle of the bottom two teams with a convicing victory over France.

It was Ireland's second victory but it was still not enough because of their 3-0 defeat to South Africa on Friday.

Holders Spain will play Argentina in the semi-finals after they beat Sweden to remain unbeaten.

Miguel Angel Martin gave the holders an early lead after beating Patrik Sjoland 69-70, but Miguel Angel Jimenez lost to Per-Ulrik Johansson 72-71 to leave the match finely poised.

But Jose-Maria Olazabal showed his true colours as he fought back from five shots behind Matthias Gronberg, who was still three clear with five to go, for a 72-70 victory.

The other match saw Zimababwe defeat China 2-1.

Second seeds Argentina will play Spain after they reached the last four by defeating seventh seeds Australia 2-1.

After the first two matches were shared, Nick O'Hern beating Eduardo Romero and Stephen Leaney losing to Angel Cabrera, the match rested on the final game between Australian captain Peter O'Malley and Jose Coceres.

O'Malley was one up with four to play but back-to-back double bogeys at 15 and 16 saw him lose by two.

The United States were already out before their final game, but recovered some pride with a 2-1 victory over Japan.

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