Retief Goosen's International team had the better of the opening day foursomes Monday and will take a one-point lead into the singles matches at the inaugural Goodwill Trophy.
The International team leads 2{ to 1{ in the two-day match play contest against a combination from the Ryder Cup countries led by Scotland's Colin Montgomerie.
Goosen and Michael Campbell combined to beat Montgomerie and American Chris DiMarco 5 and 4.
``There was no goodwill shown to us! Michael and Retief played very well and were 5 under after seven, while we showed plenty of goodwill with bogeys and double-bogeys,'' Montgomerie said.
International duo K.J. Choi and Thongchai Jaidee had a 3 and 2 win over Paul Casey and Alejandro Canizares.
Asian pair Zhang Lianwei and Jeev Singh came back from four down after nine holes to split the point with English pair Luke Donald and Nick Dougherty.
Sweden's Henrik Stenson and Welshman Bradley Dredge won the only full point for the combined Europe-United States team with a comfortable win over Australians Peter Senior and Paul Sheehan.
The captains will square off in Tuesday's singles matches.
Among the other matches, DiMarco will take on Campbell, Stenson faces Singh and Donald is against Thongchai.
The Goodwill Trophy is being played on the Jack Nicklaus-designed course at Mission Hills Golf Club in China.
