Presidents Cup: U.S. beat worldwide team 15½-14½

It had a “teams element”, which was won by Team Australia, but the major focus was on the individual event won by Day, which offered a $7 million prize pool and official world ranking points.

“I had a poor shot, I had 5-iron on 18 and I just hit it square in the teeth”, said the South African. The global team was happy to be back in the match.

“It will spur the understanding that Korea can put on big-time golf events”, he said. I didn’t play well. But at least we roll into the weekend with a few momentum and anticipation, as well as a Saturday morning session in Korea that will actually fall within a reasonable primetime viewing block on Friday night back in the United States.

Tim Finchem, commissioner of the PGA Tour, which organizes the biennial match play competition, said he’s received “a very positive reaction” from those in other Asian nations about the event.

The early American red plastered across the other matches on the scoreboard began to fade in the afternoon as Japanese sensation Matsuyama fought back to beat J.B. Holmes and Thai Jaidee took an unexpected half point when Bubba Watson missed from five feet on the 18th.

Jessica Korda hit six birdies to take a two shot lead in the third round of the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia Saturday, while Lydia Ko, a South Korea-born New Zealander, remains firmly in the race for the title. They cut into the lead with a par on the ninth, and Bae chipped in from just off the green on the 10th for a birdie that evened the match.

“It’s a lot of nerves but I have to play good”.

Unusual stuff started happening on the 18th when the Internationals’ Louis Oosthuizen’s eagle earned a half-point against Patrick Reed in the first match of the day. The fact that Mickelson was told he was disqualified meant he could not make a tying birdie, which would have halved the hole.

He teamed with Zach Johnson to halve their match against Australia’s Jason Day and Adam Scott despite the USA pair incurring a controversial and irregular penalty; Mickelson violated the one-ball rule as part of the condition of play in the matches, leading to a scoring adjustment in which they lost the seventh hole twice, once by score and once by penalty. Leishman pulled off the 1-up win when he canned a 7-footer for birdie on the final hole.

Oosthuizen said they went to Price after they won their opening match Thursday and offered to split up, knowing both were playing well and thinking perhaps they could bring another worldwide player along. But after winning 2.5 points for the team, he said he was eager for another opportunity to play in the tournament.

A familiar face for the Americans was smack in the middle of the familiar outcome. Both teams missed the fairway at 18, and Schwartzel tried to reach the green from a bunker. With his 5-and-4 victory against Charl Schwartzel, Mickelson finished 3-0-1.

“It’s just that I wanted to keep three really strong players toward the end to be honest”. “Australia, we know the event, we know the events can be great from a presentation standpoint, there isn’t any question; we’ve been there before”. This year, the total number of matches was reduced to 30 from 34.