Haas’ son Bill and Chris Kirk will sit out the opening session, with former Masters champion Charl Schwartzel and Korea’s Sangmoon Bae left out by Price.
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No player symbolizes the futility of the global team more than Scott, simply because he has been around the longest.
Worldwide captain Nick Price remains disappointed that PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem only reduced the number of matches to 30.
“He’s going for the kill”, Price said.
“Because I made it too tough to start with”, Nicklaus said Wednesday.
Bomber Brooks Koepka was the guy for whom many pundits were calling. We would like to win one. Fowler and Walker birdied three of the first four holes and didn’t let up the rest of the match. His only Presidents Cup came in 2011, when he went 1-3-1.
The USA team will be declared winners if it’s tie since they are the current holders of the President Cup.
Many pundits believe the Internationals need a victory for the event to keep going.
Phil Mickelson and Zach Johnson capped off a performance that was as businesslike as their handshakes, and the Americans had a 4-1 lead after foursomes in which they never trailed in any match except the one they lost.
The veteran left-hander, who has played in every Presidents Cup, somehow blasted the ball into the hole for a miraculous birdie and the 2-up margin stood the next four holes until the Aussies ran out of holes. The victory was really the only bright spot for the worldwide Team in day one. The 12 singles will remain as they are for Sunday.
“It was delicious. We had a good time last night”. “First of all, I didn’t want to break up the other teams that had played so well together”.
Plus, it’s completely up to the host captain as to which order the fourballs and foursomes are played in over the first two days, and although Price is expected to opt for fourballs first of all, he could throw a curveball with foursomes. “There’s plenty of room off the tee and I don’t believe this course is going to get hard enough to make any difference”. “I don’t know, we’ll have to wait and see”. “We’re having… not issues or anything like that, but more thought involved to do it the right way”. “We are trying to win the trophy”. How can American players who seem incapable of closing out matching or making big putts in the Ryder Cup look so invincible in the Presidents Cup?
With a slender one-hole lead on 18 and Jason Day already safely in the fairway, Mickelson capped a stirring performance by launching an adrenalin-filled 350-yard drive down the par-five to leave Johnson just 186 yards from the pin.
Begun in 1994, the Presidents Cup offered an global competition between Ryder Cup years and expanded the field to players outside Europe.
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By contrast Watson’s partner J.B. Holmes was impeccable with the putter all day and sank birdies at the 15th and 16th to close out a 3 and 2 win.
