Murdoch6-5 at 2017 Ford World Men's Curling Championship

SKIP
David
Murdoch

Third
Greg
Drummond

Second
Scott
Andrews

Lead
Michael
Goodfellow

David Murdoch (Lockerbie, SCO) finished 6-5 in the 12-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Murdoch lost 9-6 to Steffen Walstad (Oslo, NOR), then responded with a 9-4 win over John Shuster (Duluth, USA). Murdoch won 7-4 against Yusuke Morozumi (Karuizawa, JPN). Murdoch went on to lose 9-7 against Rui Liu (Harbin, CHN). Murdoch lost 8-2 to Brad Gushue (St. John's, CAN). Murdoch lost 6-5 to Peter De Cruz (Geneva, SUI) where Murdoch responded with a 9-5 win over Jaap van Dorp (Zoetermeer, NED). Murdoch went on to lose 6-4 against Niklas Edin (Karlstad, SWE). Murdoch responded with a 6-2 win over Joel Retornaz (Trentino, ITA). Murdoch won 7-1 against Alexander Baumann (Fuessen, GER), then won 7-6 against Alexey Stukalskiy (Moscow, RUS) in their final qualifying round match.

Murdoch earned 15.561 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins, remaining in 10th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with a net gain of 10.576 after improving upon their best so far this season. Murdoch ranks 13th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 214.139 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

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