Presidents Cup

Davis Love III's side were pre-tournament favourites to continue their winning streak in the biennial contest and dominated the first two days at Quail Hollow, ...

Tony Finau recovered from being two behind to lead against Taylor Pendrith, with back-to-back birdies from the 16th sealing a 3&1 win, with Schauffele bouncing back from losing three consecutive holes late in his match to defeat Corey Conners on the final hole and earn the winning point. Kim won the first two holes of the back nine and moved back ahead with a birdie at the par-five 16th, where Thomas failed to get up and down from the greenside bunker, with the International Team player then responding to an American birdie at the 17th by holing a 10-foot birdie to win the last. Spieth recovered from losing his opening two holes to make back-to-back birdies from the fourth, with the three-time major champion cancelling out Cam Davis winning the eighth by taking five of the next six holes on his way to a 4&3 win.

The International team challenged the U.S. with a couple of big early Sunday wins, but the Americans' depth came through in winning the 14th Presidents Cup.

4, and Tony Finau defeated Canada's Taylor Pendrith, 3 and 1, in the sixth pairing. Spieth, who won all of his team matches with Thomas, became the sixth player in Presidents Cup history to go 5-0-0, and he won his first singles match in either this competiton or the Ryder Cup. Patrick Cantlay, who went 3-1 for the week, dominated Aussie veteran Adam Scott, 3 and 2, in Match No. [The Americans won the singles session 6½-5½, and in addition to Schauffele, Jordan Spieth, Patrick Cantlay, Tony Finau, Collin Morikawa and Max Homa scored victories. Nearly 5½ hours after play began, Xander Schauffele closed out his 1-up victory over Canada's Corey Connors with a par, and the Americans had the 15½ points they needed to secure their 12th victory in the biennial competition that was first played in 1994. South Korea's Si Woo Kim made a birdie on 18 to beat the new “Captain America,” Justin Thomas, 1 up in Match No.

The U.S. team captured the Presidents Cup again, taking down the International team 17½ to 12½ at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Sunday.

It'll get one after Ryder Cup veterans [Paul Casey](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/72/paul-casey), [Ian Poulter](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/619/ian-poulter), [Lee Westwood](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/455/lee-westwood) and [Sergio Garcia](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/158/sergio-garcia) joined LIV Golf. [Will Zalatoris](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9877/will-zalatoris), the No. [Rory McIlroy](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/3470/rory-mcilroy), the No. 2 player in the world, and Spain's [Jon Rahm](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9780/jon-rahm), who is No. Italy's [Guido Migliozzi](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9474/guido-migliozzi) and Denmark's Nicolai and Rasmus Hojgaard are young but talented. England's [Tyrrell Hatton](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/5553/tyrrell-hatton) and [Tommy Fleetwood](http://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/5539/tommy-fleetwood) are capable of playing great golf. 1 [Scottie Scheffler](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9478/scottie-scheffler) and Sam Burns. Lee](http://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/7083/kh-lee) to take down world No. That afternoon, Kim and [Si Woo Kim](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/7081/si-woo-kim) stunned the seemingly unbeatable tandem of Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele in four-ball competition. [Max Homa](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/8973/max-homa), a five-time winner on the PGA Tour, mentioned that he wasn't particularly close to anyone else on the U.S. South Korea's [Tom Kim](https://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/460267/tom-kim) became a household name, and the International team showed a lot of heart in competing better than expected. But when Homa said it again during a news conference after Sunday's victory, [Sam Burns](http://www.espn.com/golf/player/_/id/9938/sam-burns) quipped, "Love you, Max."

Early in the week at Quail Hollow Club, International captain Trevor Immelman said what many were thinking. “We're up against maybe the strongest American team ...

And the looming presence of Patrick Reed, who alienated many with his comments following the U.S. Last year’s European team was very much a “tweener” group with the likes of Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter and Sergio Garcia in the mix and past their primes. The U.S. Gone was the team-room conflict that was created by last year’s man-spat between DeChambeau and Koepka. It’s remarkable how LIV’s influence decimated the International team, but the U.S. But there was reason to rest in the assuredness that this success can travel from one competition to the next. The final day had been a grind, which itself is a testament to how close the two teams are. “It’s hard to rank them, but I wouldn’t have wanted to be on the other side,” said Love, who has been part of cup teams since 1993. But the best of all time? And the Sunday split, 6 ½ to 5 ½, in favor of the Americans, suggested more parity than some would have thought. It would have been easy for the Americans, a 6 ½-point favorite at Quail Hollow, to stumble into what was essentially a trap game. team – with a core that’s travelled and won from Wisconsin to North Carolina – is difficult to quantify.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – His ball, club, hat, heart, and the inhibitions of the International Team.

But they knew, we all knew, and everyone spilled into the North Carolina night happy to tell anybody who asks how that felt. Homa was the best rookie, the best captain’s pick, and the best quote. It will not show how high Spieth’s chip-in bounced when it hit the back of the hole on 15 late Saturday as he and Justin Thomas beat Hideki Matsuyama/Taylor Pendrith 4 and 3. “I would have celebrated more,” Spieth, the MVP of the U.S. The scoreboard can’t measure that sort of thing, or explain how 12 men played for each other, the flag, the shield. The final score of this Presidents Cup won’t reflect that eloquence. Those who saw it won’t soon forget Sungjae Im chipping in for birdie on 14 as he and Muñoz tied Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns in the week’s best match, a Four-ball contest Friday. “It was going in kind of hard. I’ve been in the last match both days, and to be able to see that is special for me.” We saw greatness at this Presidents Cup: Jordan Spieth’s five birdies to beat Cam Davis 4 and 3 as he went 5-0-0 for the week. won the 2022 Presidents Cup 17.5 – 12.5. The U.S.

“This team is no joke,” said Trevor Immelman, the captain of the International team and the 2008 Masters champion, “and I'm sick and tired of it being spoken of ...

“I think a lot of these younger guys are trying to get as many experiences as we can and this was just a massive steppingstone.” “A big difference I’ve felt in the last couple years,” said Adam Scott of Australia, the 2013 Masters champion, “is what’s going on in our team room.” He concluded, “I think good things are really starting to happen in that environment.” He added, “A cup is coming our way soon.” “I kind of say this week is sort of the benchmark in terms of high-pressure situations” and “something we haven’t quite experienced,” he said. “I think I played some of my best golf of the year, which was really cool.” The results of Sunday’s 12 singles matches started coming in just after 3:30 when Jordan Spieth, the monster of the U.S. 18 struck the flagstick and came to a rest one foot off. bandanna to the understated U.S. flag on the red cap to the overstated U.S. with a six-foot putt he studied for a good while and then beat Corey Conners of Canada, 1 up, well, Schauffele said, “What you saw was a big sigh of relief.” flags tucked into caps to the U.S. gear, from the singlet with suspenders to the U.S. team won, 17½-12½, against an International team hamstrung by poaching from the LIV Golf circuit, but the margin wound up shy of the neighborhood of infinity — not so bad after a Friday night when the Americans led 8-2 and the forecast looked yucky.