Winner: USA 15.5-14.5
Around the wider world of golf: This was an amazingly busy week for golf! ET Rookie Matthew Fitzpatrick got his first win at the ET's British Masters; Tom Lehman shot 5-under on the last 4 holes to win the SAS Championship on the Champions Tour; Wil Bateman won the Abierto de Chile, becoming the first Canadian to win on the PGA TOUR Latinoamérica; Bryden Macpherson won the Lushan Open on the PGA TOUR China; Jessica Korda broke a string of missed cuts to win the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia on the LPGA; Jackie Stoelting got back-to-back wins by taking the IOA Golf Classic on the Symetra Tour; Hye In Yeom got her first pro win at the Xiamen International Ladies Open on the LET; and Bo-Mee Lee won the Stanley Ladies Golf Tournament on the JLPGA (bangkokbobby has details).
I are aware of it's a small sample -- handiest one Presidents Cup -- but it absolutely seems that International Captain Nick Price became one hundred% correct whilst he said the layout needed to match that of the Ryder and Solheim Cups. Over the final two days while the brand new layout matched those different occasions (keep for that "every participant must play twice within the first four periods" requirement), the two groups played each other to a draw.
Everybody make sure to thank him for forcing the issue with the PGA Tour. He may additionally have finally given the Presidents Cup a destiny.
And whilst Adam Scott said that this Presidents Cup put the Internationals in the same spot that Seve said the first 'European Team' Ryder Cup went -- namely, to an area of hope -- it looks as if he turned into accurate as properly.
I may not even try and cross into all that occurred; there has been absolutely an excessive amount of for a single weblog publish. I'll simply sum it up via pointing to Chris Kirk and Bill Haas's grasp play on the stop of the singles session. It took a few heroics by the overpowering favorites to win this Cup with the aid of the narrowest of margins, and that bodes properly for the occasion going ahead.
Likewise, I may not be as difficult on gamers like Jason Day or Aniban Lahiri as some can be. It actually takes time to discover ways to play under team pressure. Hey, for all his "ability to finish" we need to don't forget that Jordan Spieth has but to win a singles match in both professional crew occasion, and even a team stalwart like Matt Kuchar came up clean this time! Pressure finds a manner to embarrass us all from time to time, and the Internationals will learn how to deal with it in the end.
In the interim I offer this easy Limerick Summary to the effective US Team -- who, I sense forced to feature, higher come better organized subsequent time or things might flip out a bit differently...
The conflict became closer this time
As modifications introduced scores greater in line
With Ryder Cup tallies.
But closing minute rallies
By Jay Haas’s team turned the tide. The photo came from this page at reuters.com.
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