The RUT is struggling to overcome round-number resistance at the 800 level.
One of the lessons from Latin America's ability to overcome several rounds of financial crisis, he suggested during an interview, is that "the idea cannot simply be to tighten the belt".
That opened the door for players like Woods, who had five birdies and no bogeys, and Kraft, who shot a superb 66. Starting the day five strokes off the pace, Woods overcame a round when his ball striking was not the best.
"The boost must have helped him beat Neil Robertson in the first round, overcome Martin Gould quite easily and then Graeme Dott who should have been much tougher.
Ronny Deila's side were drawn to play Qarabag or Rudar Pljevlja in the third qualifying round, if they overcome Stjarnan in the second round.
She finished with a 67 that included four birdies over the final six holes but could not overcome an opening-round 72.
Joint third seeds Neil and Torrance start with a second-round test against Crieff's Niall Jarvie and David Purdie from Largs and may have to overcome a tricky third round match against Thomson and Mauchline's Adam Hall if they want to face Van Rietvelde and Blair in the semi-finals.
The largest ever halftime deficit overcome in the championship round was 15 points.
"It is not predictable to say four teams in the Premier League shall overcome this group stage round, no, it is not like that.
Finally, once the problems of a cultural and organisational nature have been overcome, universities may come round to adopting the new accounting model.
When I asked Ehlers about the status of Rape-aXe, she told me there was one last hurdle in the design to overcome, which a final round of investment will be needed to resolve.
