Group USA delivered a day one-thrashing of the Worldwide aspect to make a dominant begin to their try and win a tenth successive Presidents Cup.
For simply the second time within the fifteenth staging of the biennial groups competitors, the USA produced a round-one clean-sweep to determine a commanding 5-0 lead within the fourballs entering into to Friday’s foursomes.
It marks a dream begin for US captain Jim Furyk’s bid to retain the title at Canada’s Royal Montreal Golf Membership and leaves Mike Weir’s Worldwide group with an uphill battle over the remaining 4 rounds.
Regardless of Thursday’s one-sided general scoreline, three of the 5 fourball matches did go all the way down to the 18th gap with the Worldwide aspect left to rue a succession of missed alternatives and gilt-edged birdie putts on the again 9.
World No 1 Scottie Scheffler and enjoying accomplice Russell Henley delivered the day’s most complete win, beating South Korean pair Tom Kim and Sungjae Im 3&2, however the match nonetheless contained the spherical’s greatest flashpoint and speaking level.
Kim and Scheffler are identified to be good buddies however their match appeared to briefly get heated after a collection of birdies on the seventh and eighth holes.
After Kim had shouted in delight after rolling in a birdie putt on the seventh, a jubilant Scheffler then roared ‘what was that?’ in direction of his good friend after sinking his personal putt to halve the opening.
Kim then birdied the eighth to place the stress on the American pair and controversially, earlier than Scheffler had even performed his shot in an try and halve the opening, Kim and Im had walked on to the ninth tee field.
Scheffler subsequently missed his putt to offer the Worldwide aspect the opening win, bringing their deficit on the time again to at least one. Kim and Im did not win one other gap thereafter because the Worldwide pair’s problem pale, with a half on the sixteenth finally confirming the US pairing’s comfy win.
On Kim and Im leaving the eighth gap early, Sky Sports activities Golf’s Paul McGinley mentioned: “That’s bordering on bad behaviour there. That’s disrespectful in my opinion. I know it’s competitive out there but it certainly shows you there’s an underlying edge here. It’s not all fun and games.”
Day One fourballs outcomes – USA 5-0 Worldwide
- Xander Schauffele & Tony Finau bt Byeong Hun An & Jason Day 1 UP
- Collin Morikawa & Sahith Theegala bt Adam Scott & Min Woo Lee 1 UP
- Scottie Scheffler & Russell Henley bt Sungjae Im & Tom Kim 3&2
- Wyndham Clark & Keegan Bradley bt Taylor Pendrith & Christiaan Bezuidenhout 1 UP
- Patrick Cantlay & Sam Burns bt Hideki Matsuyama & Corey Conners 2&1
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