{"id":909113,"date":"2026-09-25T12:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909113\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T12:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:40:17","slug":"pendrith-puts-figurative-a-on-golf-shirt-for-presidents-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909113\/","title":{"rendered":"Pendrith puts figurative \u2018A\u2019 on golf shirt for Presidents Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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International team players Taylor Pendrith of Canada, and Corey Conners of Canada, right, wait for the trophy presentation at the 2024 Presidents Cup golf tournament at Royal Montreal Golf Club in Montreal.Frank Gunn\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Taylor Pendrith was making other plans when he learned that he\u2019d be taking on a new role for the International team as an assistant to captain Geoff Ogilvy at this week\u2019s Presidents Cup.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was actually planning my mother-in-law\u2019s surprise 60th birthday party, and I\u2019d missed a call from Geoff because I was setting things up,\u201d said Pendrith on Monday. \u201cI went out and took the call, and he told me the news, and I went back in and told my wife, and she was shocked. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was a little shocked too. It\u2019s not something that at this point in my career I was thinking about, but obviously I\u2019m super honoured and proud to to be in this role and be here with the guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike hockey, the captain and his assistants don\u2019t play in the Presidents Cup but act more like coaches, following play in golf carts and relaying information from pairing to pairing.<\/p>\n

As a result, the captains and their assistants for the best-on-best tournament that sees the top American golfers on the PGA Tour take on the elite from around the world \u2013 minus Europe \u2013 are older players who are retired or semi-retired. <\/p>\n

For example, Mike Weir of Brights Grove, Ont., captained the International side at the 2024 edition at Royal Montreal Golf Club. His assistants were Ernie Els, Trevor Immelman, Ogilvy and Camilo Villegas. <\/p>\n

All of them were over 40 at the time and Weir and Els were already regulars on the Champions Tour. Immelman had been CBS\u2019s lead golf analyst for a year, and Ogilvy only played in one PGA Tour event that year. Only Villegas, who was 42 at the time, had played a full season in 2024.<\/p>\n

At 35 years old, Pendrith is still very much in his prime. Indeed, when play teed off at Medinah Country Club outside Chicago on Thursday morning he officially tied Ian Baker-Finch for the youngest-ever captain\u2019s assistant.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a huge goal of mine to make the team as a player, and I just didn\u2019t have a great year on the golf course,\u201d said Pendrith, who was 95th on the FedEx Cup standings at the end of the season. \u201c[Ogilvy] had a secondary prize for me, and wanted me to be an assistant captain. Obviously, it\u2019s something that I can\u2019t say no to. <\/p>\n

\u201cI want to be a part of the team. It\u2019s my favourite week of the year, so I accepted, and it\u2019s been really fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

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International team member Taylor Pendrith of Canada, reacts after winning the eighth hole during their fifth round singles match at the 2024 Presidents Cup golf tournament at Royal Montreal Golf Club.Graham Hughes\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Pendrith has played in the last two editions of the biennial event. He was shut out in his four match play appearances at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C., in 2022 but earned two points in five chances at Montreal in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a pressure that you can\u2019t really produce in practice,\u201d said Pendrith. \u201cIt\u2019s such a big week. You\u2019re playing for more than yourself. You have your team and all the countries that are represented on this team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Corey Conners of Listowel, Ont., is playing in the Presidents Cup for a third time and Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C., is making his debut.<\/p>\n

Taylor said he was pumped to have Pendrith as part of the captain\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo pick his brain with his experience playing in this twice and now being there for us, anything he can do to help us being an assistant captain it\u2019s huge, especially for me being my first time,\u201d said Taylor. \u201cIt\u2019s a familiar face, someone I\u2019m very comfortable talking to and being around and I\u2019m definitely going to take his advice whenever I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pendrith said his advice for Taylor and fellow International team rookies Ryan Fox of New Zealand, Nico Echavarria of Colombia, and Ryo Hisatsune of Japan was simple.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust enjoy it and have fun. It\u2019s so much fun being here with the guys in the team room and all of that, so try not to put too much pressure on yourself,\u201d said Pendrith. \u201cObviously, everybody wants to do good and play well and get points for the team and do well for their teammates, but to just really enjoy it and have fun because it is a pretty special week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: International team players Taylor Pendrith of Canada, and Corey Conners of Canada, right,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,622,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-909113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-golf","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}