Winner report
USA win the singles 9½-2½ to take the Presidents Cup 17-13
Three points down going into Sunday at Medinah, the United States won nine of the 12 singles to beat the International team 17-13 and win the Presidents Cup for the 11th time in a row.
Jacob Bridgeman beat Min Woo Lee 1 up on the 18th green at Medinah to win the point that kept the Presidents Cup in American hands. The United States had trailed Geoff Ogilvy’s International team 10½-7½ going into Sunday’s singles, won nine of the 12 matches and halved another. It is an 11th straight Presidents Cup win for the Americans, who now lead the series 14-1-1.
A split Saturday at Medinah
The Internationals led 7-3 after sweeping Friday’s foursomes. On Saturday the US took the morning four-balls 2½-1½. Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns beat Hideki Matsuyama and Ryo Hisatsune 2 and 1, Chris Gotterup and Cameron Young beat Nick Taylor and Corey Conners by the same score, and Justin Thomas and Jackson Koivun halved with Min Woo Lee and Sungjae Im. The Internationals’ point came from Tom Kim and Si Woo Kim, 2 and 1 winners over Collin Morikawa and Wyndham Clark.
The afternoon foursomes finished 2-2. Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele beat the Kims 2 and 1, and Young and Gotterup thrashed Adam Scott and Im 6 and 4. Conners and Taylor edged Russell Henley and Bridgeman 1 up, and Ryan Fox and Min Woo Lee beat Burns and Clark 3 and 2. That left the Internationals needing five points from the 12 singles to win the Cup for only the second time.
Sunday singles: every result
| Match | United States | Result | International |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | Cameron Young | won 3 and 2 | Ryo Hisatsune |
| 20 | Wyndham Clark | lost 3 and 2 | Tom Kim |
| 21 | Justin Thomas | won 5 and 3 | Corey Conners |
| 22 | Scottie Scheffler | won 2 and 1 | Nico Echavarría |
| 23 | Sam Burns | lost 3 and 1 | Sungjae Im |
| 24 | Chris Gotterup | won 1 up | Christiaan Bezuidenhout |
| 25 | Collin Morikawa | won 1 up | Hideki Matsuyama |
| 26 | Patrick Cantlay | won 2 and 1 | Adam Scott |
| 27 | Jackson Koivun | won 2 up | Si Woo Kim |
| 28 | Jacob Bridgeman | won 1 up | Min Woo Lee |
| 29 | Russell Henley | halved | Nick Taylor |
| 30 | Xander Schauffele | won 2 and 1 | Ryan Fox |
Final score: United States 17, International 13 (singles 9½-2½).
The matches that turned it
Young and Thomas, out first and third, won comfortably. The Internationals answered through Tom Kim, who beat Clark 3 and 2 to finish the week with four wins from five matches, and Im, who beat Burns. But almost every tight match in the middle of the order went American.
Morikawa trailed Matsuyama for much of the day, then won the 15th with a 30-foot putt and the 18th to win 1 up. Cantlay closed out Scott 2 and 1 with a birdie putt from 57 feet at the par-three 16th, according to GOLF.com. Koivun, a 21-year-old rookie, was two down after ten holes against Si Woo Kim and turned it into a 2-up win.
Scheffler beat Echavarría 2 and 1 to finish the week on three wins from four matches. Yahoo Sports reported that he conceded a par putt to his opponent after a spectator shouted during Echavarría’s backswing.
The Cup itself went to Bridgeman, who holed a short par putt on the last to beat Lee.
A three-point lead lost
The Internationals built a four-point lead with Friday’s 5-0 sweep and still had a three-point cushion on Sunday morning, but their only win remains Royal Melbourne in 1998. Tom Kim and Si Woo Kim won three matches together this week, and Conners and Taylor won both their foursomes.
The US captain, Brandt Snedeker, was on the losing side of a Sunday comeback at Medinah in the 2012 Ryder Cup.
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