United States wins Presidents Cup

The U.S. golfers, appearing as dominant as the basketball Dream Team, were so far ahead of the competition that they almost disproved that classic American saying, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over”.

The United States have won nine of the 11 biennial contests to date and the last six in succession following a tie in 2003, with the International Team’s only success coming in Australia in 1998.

The US have a 141/2-31/2 advantage over the worldwide team and need only a point from the remaining 12 singles matches this morning (Singapore time) to record their 10th victory in 12 stagings of the golf event.

Sky Bet cut the United States to 1/7 as they took command, a position they’re familiar with in an event they’ve dominated.

There are four fourball matches on Saturday before the 24 players go head-to-head in 12 singles matches on Sunday, with 15 1/2 points required for victory. They were also all smiles when recalling the most memorable song heard on the first tee this week, where American and global fans joined to alternate between supportive sonnets and some more cutthroat chords.

He then summoned USA captain Steve Stricker to take the trophy by referring to him as “that great putter”.

Next up will be rookie Charley Hoffman, taking on Australian veteran Jason Day. All 12 matches will be played to completion, even though it is pretty clear how it will turn out.

Worldwide captain Nick Price’s men had trailed by an unprecedented six points after the first two days. “If we can do the same thing tomorrow and win another session, it puts us in a great position”.

“I only stopped it because our fans were screaming at it, to like, keep going; just to shut everybody up”, Spieth said.

In an odd way, Lahiri and Kim faced pressure Saturday. They were 1 up through 14 holes, but Kim squared the match with a birdie from 7 feet.

“I think home soil has played a big role this week”, he said. Made some really crucial putts, chipped in there at 11, and it was just a really solid effort.

The Americans came within one match of winning the Presidents Cup – on Saturday.

“They came here riding a ton of momentum and a ton of confidence. and they just played unbelievably well”. And in his 100th career match, he beat Adam Hadwin, 2 and 1.

Jason Day defeated Charley Hoffman 2 and 1 for the first global victory of the day, and he was joined by Hideki Matsuyama, who beat Justin Thomas 3 and 1.

Meanwhile in the morning foursomes, Speith and Reed, Matt Kuchar and Dustin Johnson and Kevin Kisner and Phil Mickelson all won their match-ups while Ricjie Fowler and Thomas halved with Branden Grace and Oosthuizen. “But we very much liked the day and the way it started”, he said. “But we have it under really great control”, Trump said. Louis Oosthuizen then took out Patrick Reed, 1 up, by winning the final two holes.

Els said that Grace looks up to Oosthuizen “and listens to him”.

Not that any of the Americans needed extra motivation.

Spieth said afterward, “That was my only chance”. “We have a resilient team”.