{"id":905786,"date":"2026-09-26T04:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T04:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/905786\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T04:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T04:34:13","slug":"adam-scott-min-woo-lee-lead-internationals-to-day-one-sweep-at-presidents-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/905786\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Scott, Min Woo Lee lead Internationals to day one sweep at Presidents Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee have helped the Internationals to a shock 7-3 Presidents Cup lead over the USA with an incredible sweep of the foursomes matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Australian pair were mighty in giving the Internationals a golden opportunity to win the Cup for the first time since 1998 as Geoff Ogilvy&#8217;s underdogs claimed all five points on day two in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Scott had his long wand weaving magic in teaming with South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout for a 3 and 2 win over Justin Thomas and Cameron Young.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Lee partnered New Zealand Cup debutant Ryan Fox to a clutch 1 up win over the American pair of double major winners Collin Morikawa and Wyndham Clark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Reigning Open champion Fox sealed victory on the 18th green after Lee&#8217;s supreme driving proved a feature of the day at Medina Country Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Canadians Corey Conners and Nick Taylor set the tone for the Internationals with a nerve-shredding 1 up win over world number one Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Adam Scott watches his shot as the crowd watches behind him at the Presidents Cup.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/be09c9de67046b612df5c429f39423a5.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Adam Scott has played every Presidents Cup since 2003. (Getty Images: Luke Hales)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Clinging to a one-hole lead heading up the last hole, Taylor&#8217;s errant drive placed the duo under extreme pressure but he replied with a magical approach to two feet after Conners was forced to lay up 148 yards short of the green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Conners duly holed the putt to leave tie the scores up at 3-3 after Team USA won three of the five day-one four-ball matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A 4 and 3 victory for Tom Kim and Si Woo Kim over Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay and a 3 and 2 win for fellow South Korean Sung-jae Im and Japanese superstar Hideki Matsuyama over Russell Henley and Jacob Bridgeman completed only the Internationals&#8217; second-ever foursomes whitewash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">With 20 points still up for grabs, the 13th edition of the Presidents Cup is realistically only one-third through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">But the Americans will still need to collect 12.5 points from the remaining three sessions to pull off a comeback victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">There will be eight more team matches on Saturday (Sunday AEST) before 12 last-day singles encounters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee have helped the Internationals to a shock 7-3 Presidents Cup lead over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5487,64,63,755,3389,5488,32035,85,2957],"class_list":["post-905786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-adam-scott","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-international","tag-min-woo-lee","tag-presidents-cup","tag-sports","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}