Presidents Cup: USA claim dramatic victory

When he couldn’t hole his next attempt the handshakes followed and the U.S. had secured their sixth Presidents Cup in a row and ninth outright in the most dramatic circumstances. Let’s take a look at how all 12 matches played out.

That time I hit an entire sleeve of balls into the pond and finished the hole with a Slazenger range ball – was that a violation? The tough thing for Reed to swallow is that he never trailed throughout.

The Internationals had halved the match when the forts singles was completed, Adam Scott thrashing an out-of-sorts Rickie Fowler 6&5 to level the match. He did a little better than that. Matsuyama then took a 1-up lead with a birdie on the 16th.

Hideki Matsuyama defeats J.B.

One only had to look at the relief and celebration on the Americans faces to know they had come to play and had been involved in a battle they seemed to have in safe keeping for much of the week and indeed the final day before the Internationals crept their way back to have the result in doubt until the very last moment. Bae, however, chunked a chip shot just off the 18th green that delivered an outright United States of America win. This is the second straight day Watson has missed a short one on the final hole for a full point. Thongchai drove into the water and saved par, while Watson missed a 5-foot birdie putt.

All the attention fell on the last match, with Bae holing a testing putt on the 16th to stay one down and performing similar heroics on the 17th where he almost found the cup from the bunker.

But he hasn’t lost any of the fire that he displayed throughout a PGA Tour Player of the Year season that ended with him atop the world rankings.

Mickelson was lights out all week. When it became evident the Presidents Cup would be decided by his match with Haas, the American was 1 up and not giving away any shots.

They call him “Phil the Thrill” for a reason.

“I love these team events”.

This is where the tournament turned. The fact that Mickelson was told he was disqualified meant he could not make a tying birdie, which would have halved the hole. What a way to (basically) end it.

Louis Oosthuizen had won all four of his matches up till Sunday but was behind most of the way against Patrick Reed before holing a dramatic eagle putt on 18 to snatch a half for the Internationals and keep his unbeaten record intact. “It’s just golf“, he said. Then he hit the biggest putt of his life. “Get the line and roll it in”.

“It’s exciting news, anytime Australia gets big events” said Scott, a seven-time Presidents Cup participant.

Johnson is such baller.

World number two Jason Day has welcomed the news that Australia will host the World Cup of Golf in 2016 and the Presidents Cup in 2019.

There were groans in the room when it was clear the Presidents Cup would not have a Spieth-Day match.

Russell admitted that Mickelson could have continued on the hole but was advised he was disqualified from it by the rules committee in discussion with the match referee Gary Young. Haas was in a greenside bunker, but blasted to just 67 inches.

Only Mark O’Meara (1996), Shigeki Matsuyama (1998), Tiger Woods (2009) and Jim Furyk (2011) had previously achieved the feat in Presidents Cup history. “So yeah, you knew it was going to be tight going into Sunday regardless of what happened”. He didn’t have to hit another shot.