Bae leads an worldwide team rally amid Mickelson mistake at Presidents Cup

Eventually, the mistakes were made by Mickelson and the rules officials. In 2016, the World Cup will return to its original team format.

Worldwide team player Jason Day, right, of Australia… Mickelson found the fairway and was sauntering to his ball when he noticed US captain Jay Haas following them. We’re in a good position now. “But that didn’t happen, so nothing you can do about it”. A side is penalized for a breach of the following by any partner: Rule 4 (clubs), Rule 6-4 (caddies), any Local Rule or Condition of Competition for which the penalty is an adjustment to the state of the match.

However, the referee was wrongly told that Mickelson was disqualified from the hole for using a different ball. The Americans lost two holes around the turn and it was all square the rest of the way.

Mickelson was reluctant to cast blame on the rules officials and said the responsibility lay with himself.

“I knew it was really, really big putt”, said Bae, who has won twice previously at the same course.

The incident seemed to fire up the 45-year-old, who needed a captain’s pick this year for the first time since 1994, and he delivered the shot-of-the-day at the 12th, his fairway bunker shot from 136 yards dropping near the pin and spinning sideways into the hole.

The biennial Presidents Cup, which pits the United States against a team of worldwide golfers minus Europeans, returns to American soil in 2017 at Liberty National in New Jersey before moving to Melbourne two years later. Leishman made his putt for par, and Watson missed the 5-foot birdie putt for the win.

Bubba Watson and J.B. Holmes, two of the longest hitters in golf, beat Australia’s Adam Scott and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama 3 and 2. The fireworks up ahead largely obscured the anchor match, but the Internationals put their third point of the session on the board thanks to the Schwartzel-Jaidee team.

The Americans still have the lead, though the Presidents Cup has been so lopsided since 2005 that it nearly feels like an global lead.

“We both played very poor rounds of golf and we didn’t have many chances”, Spieth said. “Today was a big turnaround”. It was one of two big mistakes by the South African.

The controversy overshadowed a great fightback by the underdog Internationals against the Americans. Grace followed with a pair of birdies for a 2-up lead, and the Spieth-Johnson tandem didn’t put up much of a fight. Oosthuizen’s birdie on the 14th made it 3 up, and Grace hit a wedge out of the rough that rolled up to inches of the cup for a conceded birdie on the 15th. In 2011, Fred Couples led the U.S. Team to a 19-15 win over Greg Norman and the Internationals.

Jordan Spieth and Phil Mickelson won their fourballs matches. Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker in 2009 are the only US team to do that. Lee got so frustrated at one point that he slapped the end of his putter and it bounced off the green.

The primary idea from that match, on the other hand, was the punishments forced on the Americans on the seventh opening after Mickelson changed the sort of ball he was playing.

“One of the best matches I ever played”, Bae said.

Decision 34-2/6 of the Rules of Golf, the Committee is not allowed to have Phil go back and play in an attempt to correct the error.

The penalty for violating the one-ball rule is called a one-hole adjustment, meaning the one hole is awarded to the other team. Day squared it with a birdie on the 15th.