The USA has continued its historic dominance of the Presidents Cup, beating the Worldwide crew 18.5 to 11.5 at Royal Montreal Golf Membership for the Tenth consecutive time.
Needing to select up solely 4.5 factors from the 12 singles matches on the ultimate day on Sunday, the US gained six and halved three others.
The end result was by no means actually unsure after American star Xander Schauffele posted an emphatic 4-and-3 victory over Australian Jason Day within the opening contest.
“My aim was simply to set the tone, get (American) purple up on that board as early as doable and I used to be in a position to do this,” Schauffele advised NBC after ending the week with a 4-1-0 file in a continuation of a stellar 12 months through which he has gained two main championships.
Patrick Cantlay and Collin Morikawa additionally went 4-1-0 for the US, whereas South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout (2-1-0) was the one Worldwide with a successful file.
The US has now gained 13 occasions within the 15 playings of the Cup since its inception in 1994. The lone Worldwide victory got here in Australia in 1998, whereas the 2003 occasion in South Africa was tied.
Keegan Bradley made a US victory mathematically sure when he outlasted South Korean Si Woo Kim 1 up within the sixth match.
“I am so happy with the crew and happy with being right here,” mentioned Bradley, who will captain the US crew in opposition to Europe in subsequent 12 months’s Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black.
“We will copy loads of what [captain] Jim Furyk did this week. He set a tradition right here for us, and we’ll carry that over into Bethpage, and I hope loads of these 12 are on that crew.”
Furyk was delighted by the poise his gamers confirmed late in matches.
“These gamers had been wonderful,” Furyk mentioned. “I had nice management on the prime. They made the captain’s job very easy and these guys performed their hearts out this week.
“We talked about being a canine all week, being the more durable crew.
These back-nine holes, for those who have a look at what number of holes gained and misplaced, I’ve obtained to really feel we owned the again 9 this week and that was the distinction.”
The US began the week by far the stronger crew on paper, with all 12 gamers ranked among the many prime 25 on this planet, in contrast with solely 4 of the Worldwide crew.
Australian Adam Scott (2-3-0) carried out moderately on a private degree, however that was scant comfort as he performed on his Tenth shedding crew in a row.
And Mike Weir of Canada joined an extended listing of shedding Worldwide captains.
“Lots of these matches had been so shut,” Weir mentioned.
“It is disappointing to not get a win. We put our crew collectively to win this factor.
“I will be fascinated by issues I might have executed in a different way. I believe that is human nature when you do not win … I am going to have loads of time to do this after.”
Reuters
