9.30am Did Brandt Snedeker just give the European Ryder Cup team bulletin board material? What a difference a day makes. On Saturday night, US Presidents Cup captain Brandt Snedeker was practically despondent over the situation facing the Americans. They were trailing an undermanned International team 10½-7½, and Snedeker pointed a lot of the blame at himself for the situation they faced, a heavy favourite now looking at possibility of an historic defeat.

“I tried to work my tail off to put these guys in the best situation possible, and I don’t think I’ve done a very good job this week to be where we are right now,” Snedeker said in a stunning act of admission. “They look to me to put them in the best position where they’re comfortable. I hold myself to a high standard. I don’t think I’ve done the best job for them in that room.”

Come Sunday, however, Snedeker boasted about the heart that his 12 players showed at Medinah, the team rallying with the most dominant Sunday singles performance in the history of the event and capping a comeback that rivaled the one the Europeans pulls off at this course in the 2012 Ryder Cup.

Snedeker deserved to be proud of his group. But in the euphoria of victory, he might have spoken a little too boastfully during an interview on SiriusXM PGA Tour radio

“This team is going to be a problem in Ireland,” Snedeker said.

Maybe it is, but that quote is likely going to be a problem too. The European Ryder Cup team doesn’t let even the slightest of slights be forgotten. And in the span of 10 words, Luke Donald just got fresh bulletin board material.

Think we’re exaggerating? All you have to do is remember what Keegan Bradley said in the afterglow of the 2024 Presidents Cup win at Royal Montreal.

“We’re gonna go to Bethpage to kick their f—ing ass!”

OK, Snedeker wasn’t quite as blunt, but the Europeans know how to squeeze out every ounce of hostility from even the most innocuous of quotes and turn it into motivation. In the process, next year’s US Ryder Cup captain, Jim Furyk, might have just seen his job at Adare Manor get a bit harder. – Ryan Herrington

8:50am Give credit to the Americans for pulling off a dominating performance in Sunday singles to come back and win the Presidents Cup.  By going 9-2-1 in the one-on-one session, the US overcame a three-point deficit to win 17-13. And they did it by doing the thing they didn’t do the first three days at Medinah: win holes down the stretch. On Sunday, American players won 22 holes over the 12 matches on the back nine. Interestingly, 12 of those wins came with pars, hinting at the notion that the Internationals might have finally run out of gas.  – Ryan Herrington

8:25am The only player on Team USA not to lose a match. Oh, and he’s 21 years old. Think we might be seeing Jackson Koivun at Kingston Heath in 2028.

8am: The comeback is complete. Team USA dominates the Sunday singles to win the 2026 Presidents Cup. Final score: 17-13.

7.40am The kid comes up clutch! American rookie Jackson Koivun defeats Si Woo Kim 2up to all but seal an incredible comeback. The best the Internationals can do now is secure a second tie.

7:05am Corey Conners’ putting was really, really bad on Sunday.  If you were watching the final day of the Presidents Cup – or any day, for that matter – you probably don’t need to see any stats to know that putting is not Corey Conners’ strength. However, it was particularly bad at Medinah on Sunday as the Canadian lost the first four holes of his match with Justin Thomas before losing 5-and-3. Anyway, as of late Sunday afternoon, Data Golf had Conners at an insanely bad -4.62 strokes gained: putting, a full THREE shots worse than anyone else on the greens. Yikes. – Alex Myers

7am Scottie Scheffler got a little testy with NBC reporter Cara Banks. As insufferable as athletes have made this saying, Scottie Scheffler likes to “keep the main thing the main thing.” The main thing being golf. He doesn’t really want to talk about much else. Not LIV, not politics and certainly not the decision, whether it was his or US captain Brandt Snedeker’s, to sit out Saturday afternoon’s foursomes session at the Presidents Cup. The thing Scheffler doesn’t understand, of course, is that golf fans were very puzzled by that move, and wanted to know more about what went into it. Banks was doing her job asking Scheffler about it on Sunday, but the World No.1 was irked by the timing of it. He had just won his singles match against Nico Echavarria, earning the Americans another huge point:

Ok then!

Both the question, and the response, are perfectly fair. We’re sure this won’t become an oddly polarising moment on the internet or anything … – Christopher Powers

6:40: Finally, Match 23 goes to the Internationals courtesy of Sungjae Im. Geoff Ogilvy’s men lead 12.5-10.5 but there’s literally no more yellow on the leaderboard right now. Worrying signs. They need to conjure up three more wins from the seven remaining matches. Can they do it?

6.38am: Matsuyama misses from three feet after a Morikawa bomb, bringing their match back to all square and leaving the leaderboard with no yellow on it. What’s happening?

5am: True to form, US President Donald Trump made himself the main character at Medinah on Sunday. He orchestrated an Air Force One flyover that our colleagues onsite said literally “rattled the media centre” A short while later, his walk out at the first tee drew a chorus of cheers and jeers from the crowd [below], before he delivered a brief speech and stepped back to greet each player as they arrived for their matches. That’s when the real fun began, as the leader of the free world took the opportunity to engage in a bit gamesmanship with International elder statesman Adam Scott. Check it out:

The ol’ tug of war is one President Trump’s favourite moves. He’s used it on everyone from political adversaries to fellow world leaders over the years in an effort to establish dominance. As we wrote on Friday after Scott buried a long birdie putt to silence a heckler, however, if you’re going to come at Adam Scott, you better dot your Ts and cross your Is. The Aussie has the looks, the style and, most importantly, the skill to hang against just about any opposition. He has effortlessly avoided controversy throughout his career and rarely lets emotions get the best of him. If you’re trying to fluster an International player, may we suggest Nico Echavarria?

Jokes aside, the US team needs all the help they can get as they attempt to come back from a three-point deficit and avoid an embarrassing loss on home soil to what looked to be one the weakest International squads ever on paper. If that means calling in a few favours with the President, then so be it.

Monday 4am (AEST): US President Donald Trump is here at Medinah. After a report that Trump requested to speak for 15 minutes at the Presidents Cup, the 45th and 47th commander-in-chief spoke for less than a minute, noting that while PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp asked him to make a speech, he’d rather just watch golf. There was a small crack at the “fake news media” reporting he would be received poorly after cheers to his arrival; otherwise, nothing inflammatory from Trump. On Medinah Road near the course, dozens of pro- and anti-Trump demonstrators took over separate corners, waving flags and signs. He is expected to stay on property and award the winners the trophy later today.

5pm: Can the US rally at Medinah? Breaking down the Sunday singles matches. For all that is made about how the Ryder Cup is more compelling than the Presidents Cup for myriad reasons, the junior of the international team competitions outdoes its elder in one compelling department: the session pairings.

In the Ryder Cup, captains and their assistants have to decide on their lineups and deliver them in a sealed envelope. That requires strategic guesswork in some cases, with a bit of educated anticipation thrown in.

Similar to your fantasy team draft, the Presidents Cup features a live game of cat-and-mouse, with decisions sometimes made on the fly depending on how the draw is shaping up.

“You can kind of have a little bit of control with half of this pairings thing,” Internationals captain Geoff Ogilvy said on Saturday night at Medinah, “but you can lose control pretty quick as the whole thing … it’s like a snake draft. That’s interesting. We had a sort of general idea, but we just let it unfold as it goes.”

We have no way of knowing if either team celebrated with fist pumps behind closed doors after the Sunday singles matches for this Presidents Cup were decided, but the results were interesting enough to wonder who thinks they came out on top.

Ogilvy said “we had some ideas” about a lineup as he anticipated that US captain Brandt Snedeker would front-load his lineup because the Americans are trailing 10½-7½, and the American skipper seemingly did that with players who have produced better statistics this week, if not always good results.

But Ogilvy didn’t necessarily counterpunch with his heavyweights in the early going. To wit: He put Nico Echavarria, who has only played once (and lost), against World No.1 Scottie Scheffler in Match No.4. And for Match 6, Ogilvy chose Christiaan Bezuidenhout, another one-match guy (who won), against arguably America’s second-best player for the week, Chris Gotterup.

At the bottom is where the Internationals are stacked, with their last four players combining for a 9-4-1 record this week. The US countered with players who are 2-6-1.

So, it is even more incumbent for the US to get red on the board early or it could be a very long day.

A look at the singles matchups, from both an American (Todd Leonard) perspective and an Aussie (AGD editor-in-chief Brad Clifton) take:

Cameron Young vs Ryo Hisatsune

Leonard: Young, even after losing his first two matches, has been the strongest American player, with he and Gotterup securing two points together on Saturday. His strokes gained total of 9.40 total is by far the best on his squad. Hisatsune is 1-1 and was carried a lot by Hideki Matsuyama in their win.
Clifton: Young is a legitimate gun and will be hard to beat here. Hisatsune has been a solid partner for his countryman Matsuyama but I feel singles is where Young truly shines, particularly on an increasingly firmer Medinah layout.

Advantage: Young

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Wyndham Clark vs Tom Kim

Leonard: Clark has had a bizarre week. He has the second-best US overall SG at 5.41 and most SG in putting, but his record is 1-3. Kim has seemingly toned down his antics a bit, and that might be because it seems like his constant partner Si Woo Kim has considerably outplayed him in them going 3-1.
Clifton: Clark has been a standout for the Yanks and I’m not surprised he’s been pushed out early as they look to close the deficit as quickly as possible. Kim is a big momentum player and, if he can win an early hole or two, look out – those antics will return for all to see.

Advantage: Clark

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Leonard: Thomas gets deserved respect for his match-play prowess, but he’s 1-1-1 and has seemingly played progressively worse, with his negative SG reaching a team-worst 5.01. Corey Conners has been just OK in going 2-2, and there is this strange stat for JT: He’s 3-0 in singles in the Ryder Cup and 0-3 in the Presidents Cup. Will his love for Medinah turn that around?
Clifton: Toss of the coin for me. Neither has blown me away this week but I can see Thomas getting a lift from the crowd and sneaking home in this one.

Advantage: Thomas

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Scottie Scheffler vs Nico Echavarria

Leonard: Who doesn’t love a good underdog story? This one qualifies, with No.1 Scheffler taking on the Colombian who is World No.61. But this is matchplay, and Echavarria has nothing to lose after playing only once and badly (minus-5.37 SG) in a Day 1 defeat. And remember, Scheffler has not been a singles beast, with a combined record of 2-2-1 in the Cups.
Clifton: The classic sacrificial-lamb move from Ogilvy. With only 5 wins required to win the Presidents Cup, why waste one of your heavy hitters on the world’s best player? With that said, Echavarria, too, has been one of the more impressive players over the past 12 months and will put in a good showing. But Scottie’s benching for Saturday’s foursomes will have him fired up and ready to close out his year on a high.

Advantage: Scheffler

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Sam Burns vs Sungjae Im

Leonard: Two players who will be venturing out for a fifth time this week. Who has more stamina? Neither played particularly well in their afternoon foursomes matches, each part of a losing team. But throughout the week, Burns has been excellent in some clutch spots. And we know he can putt.
Clifton: Another close call, this one. Sungjae has an uncanny ability to get on a run but you just feel at some pint, Burns’ flatstick is going to fire. This HAS to be the occasion or we can start organising the champagne.

Advantage: Burns

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Leonard: Gotterup was a monster on Saturday in a pair of wins with Cam Young, and now has a feel for the team matchplay environment. Bezuidenhout hasn’t hit a ball since Friday, and that was in a foursomes win with Adam Scott. So this will be his first round playing his own ball. Good luck.
Clifton: One of the match-ups I’m really looking forward to. Gotterup is an absolute baller but write off the big South African at your peril. Bezuidenhout’s Presidents Cup record is 3-1-1 and I have a feeling that will read 4-1-1 come Sunday afternoon. Love Gotterup’s no-nonsense approach but I think there could be some added leaderboard pressure on his mind here as teammates start dropping holes around him.

Advantage: Gotterup

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Collin Morikawa vs Hideki Matsuyama

Leonard: One of only two matches featuring major champions and a great showdown between strong ballstrikers, which means this will come down to who is better with the putter. Matsuyama has looked particularly sharp in winning twice in three matches.
Clifton: Love the experienced Matsuyama’s chances here. He looks ready to deliver for Ogilvy. Morikawa has putted really poorly and will need to rediscover his touch quickly to get something from this match.

Advantage: Matsuyama

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Patrick Cantlay vs Adam Scott

Leonard: Cantlay finally got a win in his traditional foursomes pairing with Schauffele, so that might get him in the right frame of mind to take on the former Masters champion and run his unbeaten singles record to 4-0. Scott, meanwhile, is a meager 5-6-0 in singles. With a chance to finally win once in his 12 appearances, the Australian should be motivated in what could be his final go as a player.
Clifton: I don’t think I’ve seen Scotty swing it better (or faster!) than the way he has these past 12 months, and he will be primed to deliver a statement win here for his mate Ogilvy and end the drought. But Cantlay has this uncanny ability to stick around and test his opponent’s patience from tee to green. You’d just hate to play him in singles, as his record suggests. Wouldn’t surprise me if these two PGA Tour Policy Board Player Directors can’t be split after 18.

Advantage: Cantlay

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Leonard: This is a fun one, simply because it matches a four-time Presidents Cupper with the stoic Cup rookie in Koivun. The American seemed like a nervous wreck in a win with Justin Thomas on Thursday, but he settled down to outplay JT, making four birdies, on Saturday in their fourball tie. Si Woo (3-1-1) has probably been his team’s second-best player behind Sungjae Im, and he’s got the experience on this stage, with a singles record of 1-2.
Clifton: Koivun has been a great story and I get the fanfare, but I don’t think throwing him in this environment at the expense of a J.J. Spaun, for example, was the right call. Si Woo has been enormous, and you can chalk this up as one of the five points needed for a famous Internationals victory.

Advantage: Kim

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Jacob Bridgeman vs Min Woo Lee

Leonard: We have to think that Bridgeman and Henley are motivated to show their own stuff after being paired twice in foursomes losses. Statistically, Bridgeman played far better than his partner, so he may not be too far off. And as the No.1-ranked putter on tour, he goes up against Lee, who has been the worst putter for his side. Lee tied Wyndham Clark two years ago in singles.
Clifton: Mark it down, folks – Min Woo Lee will COOK! We put him on our latest cover [below] for this very moment. Sit back and enjoy the show!

Advantage: Lee

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Russell Henley vs Nick Taylor

Leonard: As a captain’s pick in his first Cup, Taylor has mostly been a bright spot with a 2-1 record – specifically because of his putting. He’s actually been bad from tee to green, losing nearly 6 strokes. Henley has been poor in that category, too, and has not display much in his strong suit – putting.
Clifton: Probably the least interesting match on paper but could be absolutely the centre of attention if Taylor, a notoriously great closer, can seal the deal and maybe even the cup!

Advantage: Toss up

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Leonard: In a normally front-loaded lineup, Schauffele would figure to be near the top, but he’s struggled this week in being 1-2. Now, the thinking could also be that he’ll muster his majors game in the moment as the anchor. He’s got a formidable foe in Fox, who is 2-1 and brings spark to the Internationals with his presence alone. This could be a doozy of a match if the Cup goes down to the wire.
Clifton: Two years ago you’d have put your house on Schauffele spoiling the party but he’s been off, all while Foxy has been absolutely phenomenal. An Open champion and Presidents Cup winner is some year if he/they can pull it off. Part of me would love it to come down to this match but Foxy – along with every International player and fan – won’t mind if it’s a dead-rubber.

Advantage: Fox

11:20am: As the US tries to avoid historic loss, Brandt Snedeker has pointed the finger at himself. Trailing the Internationals 10.5-7.5 heading into Sunday’s singles, Snedeker acknowledged the fact that he’s made mistakes this week that may cost his team in the long run.

“I tried to work my tail off to put these guys in the best situation possible, and I don’t think I’ve done a very good job this week to be where we are right now,” Snedeker said in a stunning act of admission. “They look to me to put them in the best position where they’re comfortable. I hold myself to a high standard. I don’t think I’ve done the best job for them in that room.”

10:15am: When the Ryder Cup was held at Medinah in 2012, Ian Poulter made a birdie to help cap a comeback win with Rory McIlroy to close out Saturday afternoon and keep Europe’s deficit to just four points. In hindsight, it was a critical point as Europe pulled off the incredible rally on Sunday.

Fast forward to this Saturday afternoon at Medinah, and we might be remembering Corey Conners’ clutch putt on the 18th hole to secure a comeback victory with Nick Taylor in a similar fashion.

Only this time it was to keep the Internationals’ lead to 3 points, 10½-7½, rather than let the Americans cut it to 2 points and feel a little less pressure about the task at hand on Sunday. – Ryan Herrington

9.45am: It all comes down to this. Sunday matchups for the Presidents Cup have just been announced. Who you got?

8.40am: Canadian comeback! Corey Conners and Nick Taylor storm back to victory after being 3DOWN thru 10!

The Internationals head into Sunday’s singles with a 10.5-7.5 lead!

8:20am: Min Woo Lee and Ryan Fox lock up another point for the Internationals! Their lead grows to two points.

7.45am: NINE birdies in a row?!  We interrupt our Presidents Cup coverage to let you know that Lauren Coughlin put together one of the most perfect nine-hole stretches in golf history. Starting on the back nine in the second round of the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship, Coughlin birdied every (!) hole before making the turn in 26 (!) shots. 

Coughlin, who finally cooled off with a par on No.10, tied the LPGA record with her sizzling streak, matching Amy Yang in 2015 and Beth Daniel in 1999. The PGA Tour record for consecutive birdies also happens to be nine, a mark first set by Mark Calcavecchia in 2009 and matched by Kevin Chappell in 2019. 

7am: Did our eyes deceive us or did a fan KICK a golf ball back in bounds at the Presidents Cup?

Indeed, just when you thought you’ve seen it all as a golf fan, this happened Saturday at Medinah’s second hole during the afternoon foursomes session. We’ve seen how the close OB fence has come into play already, but this was crazy as Corey Conners’ approach sailed over that fence only to be kicked back onto the green by a spectator, who we’re assuming is rooting for the Internationals. Have a look:

HOWEVER, logic prevailed as it was (correctly) determined that this was done intentionally, a no-no under the Rules of Golf. As a result, rules officials deemed that the ball should be placed where it would have wound up, which was OB. After taking the stroke-and-distance penalty, Conners’ teammate Nick Taylor had to re-hit from the same spot and the team lost the hole. 

5:30am: It’s been a tough year for Scottie Scheffler … as a US golf team member. Individually, Scheffler put together another sparkling season, winning three times and finishing runner-up another five enroute to the FedEx Cup title. The World No.1 has struggled mightily in the red, white and blue, however. At Bethpage Black last September, Scheffler posted a 1-4-0 record as the US slumped to an embarrassing home loss. His start at Medinah hasn’t been much better, and on Saturday, captain Brandt Snedeker made the big call to bench his biggest star for the afternoon foursomes session.

Despite Scheffler and Burns coming back from one down on No. 15 to win their match against Hideki Matsuyama and Ryo Hisatsune – aided by a long birdie putt by Scheffler on No. 15 – the four-time major winner will now get “a break” before Sunday singles. The move comes on the heels of questions about Scheffler’s fit for alternate shot, where he currently has the fourth-worst points percentage of any player who has played more than 23 cup matches (Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup). That’s all-time, including both Internationals/Europe and the US. The only players worse than Scheffler in the format are Sam Torrance, Jason Day and Robert Allenby.

Scottie Scheffler has the 4th worst points percentage of any player who has played at least 23 Cup matches in their career.

Ryder + Presidents Cup included. pic.twitter.com/t24WSaBftL

— Rick Gehman (@RickRunGood) September 26, 2026

“You know, I feel like Scottie’s got the weight of the world on his shoulders carrying Team USA. It’s time for us to carry him for a session,” said U.S. captain Brandt Snedeker of the decision to sit Scheffler for the afternoon. “It was tough. It’s probably why my head is still spinning. We were trying to do our best to get these guys in a good situation. I love Scottie Scheffler to death, that was a really tough decision to sit him this afternoon. But I wanted to get him some rest and wanted him to get ready to go tomorrow in singles.”

4.30am: US President Donald Trump asked if he could speak for 15 minutes ahead of the Presidents Cup singles matches on Sunday, according to a report. A Golfweek story, citing multiple sources, said Trump made the request of the PGA Tour, which manages the event. On Saturday, a tour spokesperson told Golf Digest that the tour is anticipating Trump’s presence at Medinah but had no further information.  

Trump is serving as honorary chairman of the Presidents Cup for the second time, having also held the position in 2017 at Liberty National in New Jersey during his first term in office. In serving twice, he joins President Barack Obama, who was honorary chairman for 2009 and 2013. 

Last year, Trump attended the first day of the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black on Long Island with his granddaughter Kai Trump, got a mixed welcome, and did not speak publicly, other than leading the crowd in chants of “U-S-A! U-S-A!”  

A tour spokesperson told Golf Digest that the tour could only confirm that it is preparing for a possible visit by Trump. Golfweek said the White House had not returned a request for comment.

2:30am: The Kims stay undefeated this week with a comeback win! These guys are turning into absolute weapons in this tournament. The pair rallied from a two-hole deficit to defeat Collin Morikawa and Wyndham Clark in a match that featured significant momentum swings.

Sunday 12:30am (AEST): We have a Stephen Ames situation developing.  We apologise for dragging Ames into this, who will forever be known for provoking Tiger Woods before the WGC-Match Play and proceeding to lose 9&8. But Cameron Young and Chris Gotterup are 4 UP thru 4 on Nick Taylor and Corey Conners to start Saturday’s fourball session, punctuated by Young dropping a bomb for eagle on the drivable fourth. To be fair, the Canadians didn’t talk smack (at least we’re aware of, them being polite Canadians and all) but this is not what the Internationals needed after yesterday’s stunning sweep. – Joel Beall

11:30pm: Scottie Scheffler would like to play himself off this unfortunate list.  The World No.1 has been on a historic run in which he’s compiled a collection of crazy stats over the past few years. This, however, is not one of them. As Golf Digest contributor Rick Gehman notes following Friday’s tough foursomes loss on the final hole with partner Sam Burns, Scheffler has the fourth-worst points percentage of anyone who has ever played in at least 23 Presidents Cup or Ryder Cup matches:

Scottie Scheffler has the 4th worst points percentage of any player who has played at least 23 Cup matches in their career.

Ryder + Presidents Cup included. pic.twitter.com/t24WSaBftL

— Rick Gehman (@RickRunGood) September 26, 2026

Pretty stunning. The good news for Scottie? Even if he loses three more matches over the next two days at Medinah, he still won’t quite catch Australia’s Robert Allenby for the top/bottom spot. The bad news? If that does happen, the US team will be in a lot of trouble. – Alex Myers

Saturday 10:50pm (AEST): If this is how it’s going to be for the Americans on Saturday at the Presidents Cup,  US captain Brandt Snedeker is going to need a jumbo bottle of Pepto Bismol. In the first match of the morning fourball session, Justin Thomas hit a wayward drive that stopped just inside the out-of-bound fence that has players on edge early at Medinah. Forced to hit his next shot left-handed, things didn’t go well:

But the beauty of fourballs is you have a partner in play, and Jackson Koivun bailed out Thomas. But even he did it in weird fashion, his foot slipping while hitting his approach shot, which nevertheless stopped eight feet from the hole, then rolling in the birdie. On paper, it looks like the US won the first hole just like they wanted to build momentum. But it was a roller-coaster that, if it continues, will leave Snedeker’s stomach in knots. – Ryan Herrington

11:08am: ABSOLUTE SCENES AT MEDINAH!

This is what it means:

“The job is only half-done, lads. Keep it going tomorrow!” – Internationals skipper Geoff Ogilvy, probably.

10:45am Australia’s Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee both grabbed wins as the International Team seized a four-point lead after day two of the 2026 Presidents Cup thanks to a sensational foursomes whitewash of the United States.

In a repeat of Montreal two years ago, the Internationals won all five matches in the Friday session of alternate shot play, including a first Presidents Cup point for Internationals rookie Ryan Fox.

RELATED: Watch Adam Scott instantly destroy a US heckler with a long birdie bomb at Medinah

With his putter working a treat on the firm and fast greens at Medinah, The Open champion teamed up with Lee to come from behind and score a 1-up win against a duo of major champions, Wyndham Clark and Collin Morikawa.

The Internationals birdied 15 and 16 to turn a one-hole deficit into a one-hole lead and then benefitted from a short missed putt from the Americans on the 17th before Fox sealed the point with a four-footer for par on the closing hole.

“It was great. To get to play with Min, he’s a great mate of mine; I wanted to do something for him,” Fox said.

“Yesterday I felt like I played okay and didn’t have a couple of putts go in down the stretch, but I hit good ones, and today they went in.

“I felt really good about everything. I just told (Min Woo) to keep putting me on the green and see what happens, and he did a good job of that.”

Like all the Internationals, Fox is well aware one excellent session – they finished at a combined 24-under-par compared to the home team’s 13-under – will not be enough to end their 28-year drought against the Americans.

“There’s a lot of golf still to be played, and they’re a very, very good team, and no doubt they’re going to throw everything at us tomorrow,” the 39-year-old New Zealander said.

“(It) feels like we’ve got a lot of guys playing well, and hopefully that continues the next couple of days and we’ve got a chance to do something special.

“We’ve got a group of guys that really want to try to do that.”

Meanwhile, Scott teamed up with South Africa’s Christiaan Bezuidenhout – the 20th partner of his record-setting Presidents Cup career – to beat Cam Young and Justin Thomas 3&2.

The Internationals never surrendered the lead after making a birdie at the par-5 third hole, picking up five birdies and no bogeys to the Americans’ zero birdies and two bogeys.

“Obviously it’s an exciting day for us, but if we take something from Canada, it’s not to celebrate too hard at this point. We’re not even halfway through this tournament so there’s a long way to go, but it’s a great day for our team,” Scott said.

“I think we should embrace what happened here today and kind of look forward to tomorrow.

“From where I sit, if any of the guys were lacking belief, they should have it now going into the weekend.”

Sungjae Im and Hideki Matsuyama took down Russell Henley and Jacob Bridgeman, 3&2, as Matsuyama closed it out with birdie at 16, while the Korean duo of Si Woo Kim and Tom Kim downed Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele in a 4&3 drubbing that fit the vibe of the day for the Americans. 

After a win on day one, world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns lost to the Canadian duo of Nick Taylor and Corey Conners 1 up.

“It was an incredible day for us,” International Team Captain Geoff Ogilvy said.

“We did it in Montreal, so maybe it’s a pattern now. We never mentioned that, but the boys played really well.”

The 7-3 margin after day two matches what the Internationals achieved when they had their only Presidents Cup win at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in 1998.

Scott and Fox will sit out the day three morning session with Lee to resume his partnership with Sungjae Im.

Another 20 points are up for grabs across the final two days, with the first team to 15.5 points claiming the prize. – Paul Munnings

10am: The Internationals have blitzed the Americans 5-0 in the Day 2 foursomes. How good! But… if there’s something the US Presidents Cup team can hang its hat on as it trails 7-3 heading into Day 3, it’s what the Americans did at Montreal. 

They overcame a Friday foursomes sweep by the Internationals by outscoring them 6-2 in Saturday’s two sessions to take a comfortable lead Since they trail by four points, 7-3, this time, they’ll need to set a strong tone early, and each captain has gone with some familiar duos.

US skipper Brandt Snedeker is sending out the three duos who prevailed in Thursday’s fourball – Sam Burns and Scottie Scheffler (who are combined 1-1 here), Wyndham Clark and Collin Morikawa (also 1-1) and Justin Thomas (1-1) and Jackson Koivun (1-0).

Internationals captain Geoff Ogilvy has countered with the best player of this Cup so far, Hideki Matsuyama (2-0), again putting him with Ryo Hisatsune after their win Thursday. Canadians Corey Conners and Nick Taylor are fresh off their big foursomes win, as are Si Woo Kim and Tom Kim, who are 2-0.

Neither player in the fourth team for the US – Cam Young (0-2) and Chris Gotterup (0-1) has yet to win. – Todd Leonard

7.30am: Adam Scott instantly destroyed a US heckler with a long birdie bomb at Medinah. Trash talk is all part of the fun and games at team events like the Presidents Cup. During last year’s Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black, it went too far, veering dangerously close to mob rule. This year at Medinah, the crowd has been a bit tamer. Too tame, in fact. After Thursday’s four-ball session, Wyndham Clark called for US fans to make more noise on Friday. One fan tried their best, sarcastically shouting “get a longer putter” as Adam Scott sent a lengthy birdie putt on its way.

The intention was sound. The trash talk was clean and timed well after impact. There was just one little problem: Adam Scott is Adam Scott.

True to the direction of traffic on Friday. Scott buried the 30-plus footer for birdie, and putter guy (plus whoever uncorked that high-pitched cackle in response) had to eat some of the quickest crow we’ve ever seen.

Ultimately this moment came down to one big tactical error. If you’re going to pick an International team member to needle, it damn well shouldn’t be Adam Scott. He’s a Masters winner. He’s aged like a fine red vintage, is married to a Swedish architect and was even voted the best-dressed player on the PGA Tour by his peers earlier this year. Simply put, there’s no real chink in Scott’s armor. He’s like Achilles with strong heels. Hack away all you want, but he’s not going down.

That will be a concern for the Americans, who have a real dog fight on their hands. Will they come up with better dirt on Scott than the length of his putter? (Stop snickering, gentleman). Will they turn up a weak link somewhere else on the International squad? They better hope so, because the way things are going, it could be yet another weekend to forget for the Americans at Medinah. – Coleman Bentley

5.30am: Adam Scott has officially become the most capped player in Presidents Cup history. The popular Aussie reached the milestone at Medinah on Friday when, paired with South Africa’s Christiaan Bezuidenhout in the foursomes, he teed it up for the 56th time in the biennial contest, moving past American legend Phil Mickelson’s previous record of 55 matches. 

It is another remarkable chapter in Scott’s Presidents Cup career, which began in 2003 and has now stretched across 12 editions of the event. At 46, he is also the most experienced player ever to represent the International team in the competition, and remains the Internationals’ all-time leading point scorer. – Brad Clifton

4:30am: The Internationals seem pretty loose heading into Day 2 of the Presidents Cup. 

Geoff Ogilvy’s squad trailed after Thursday, but that didn’t seem to dampen the team’s spirits. In a video captured by Sungjae Im’s caddie, Willy Wilcox, Ryan Fox showed off his pipes on the team bus heading to Medinah on Friday. In front of a sleeping Tom Kim.

Have a look and listen:

Nothing like singing a little Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler” to stay loose. And if you happen to be an actual gambler, the Internationals’ long odds to win the Presidents Cup have now crept up to the 7-to-1 range. At least, before this video got out. – Alex Myers

9am: 2026 Presidents Cup Day 1 Scoreboard.

A strong finish by Geoff Ogilvy’s Internationals Team on Day 1 has the 2026 Presidents Cup perfectly poised for an intriguing foursomes showdown tomorrow.

Here’s a quick summary of the results from the opening day’s play:

8:45am: The US walked away from the opening session of the Presidents Cup with a 3-2 lead. 

But the Internationals can take some solace in how they closed things out on Thursday. Specifically, the final swing of the day from Tom Kim on the par-3 16th hole.

A walk-off ace would have been something. But the gimme birdie was enough for Kim and Si Woo Kim to close out Chris Gotterup and Patrick Cantlay, 4 and 2. And while trailing yet again after Day 1, the Internationals one-point deficit is the closest opening session since 2013 so they shouldn’t be hanging their heads just yet. – Ryan Herrington

6am: “Let’s be savages for everybody this week!”

When US captain Brandt Snedeker uttered those words on the first tee late on Thursday morning at Medinah Country Club before the first tee shots of the 16th Presidents Cup, the first thought from this corner was, “You had two years and that’s what you came up with?” The second was, “Sheesh, read the room.”

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A year ago, American golf fans did become the very definition of the word savages during the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black. They were “wild, untamed and brutally cruel” in going far beyond cheering for their side, instead yelling abusive things at the European players and wives. A first-tee announcer stepped down after leading a vulgar chant against Rory McIlroy and PGA of America President Don Rea Jr was ousted, in part, for downplaying the fans’ behaviour.

It was embarrassing and ugly and left a bad taste in the mouths of fans who love the tension and rewards of team competition but have no interest in rooting for a hockey fight to break out on the golf course.

That’s why this year’s Presidents Cup looked to be the palette cleanser the game needed. This particular match has always been more like watching your 8-year-old’s jujitsu class than an MMA fight. The Internationals have recorded just one victory, 28 years ago, and they just can’t muster the depth that the American squads possess.

They have enough going against them, and then Snedeker – always viewed as the aw-shucks Opie Taylor of the PGA Tour – goes for the throat on Day 1 by imploring the villagers to take to Medinah with torches.

Not really, of course, but it was just a very odd tone to set when team golf was supposed to return to some sense of civility.

The truth is that Snedeker’s plea fell mostly flat, with the loudest U-S-A! U-S-A! chants produced when a fleet of helicopters flew overhead. Everybody loves a good air show. And, truly, how can anybody get overly worked up when Carl Spackler himself, Chicago icon Bill Murray, brings out the huge and very gold Presidents Cup trophy?

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[Actor Bill Murray “drinks” from the Presidents Cup at the opening ceremony. James Gilbert]

Some fans were more fired up than others. Kurt Batten had a front-row seat on the first tee and was decked out in a Stars-and-Stripes golf shirt he bought on Amazon. Batten came in from Kansas City and got passes from the CEO of his company, who is a member at Medinah, and was warned, “You better have some good patriotic clothing.”

“I’m getting a lot of compliments on it,” Batten proudly said of his shirt.

Describing himself as a big golf fan, Batten loudly cheered as the American players were introduced, but he wasn’t ragging the Internationals. He did, however, say that he thought how the fans behaved at Bethpage was just fine.

“The way it should be,” Batten said. “I just think everybody is crazy. It’s kinda like the Waste Management [in Phoenix], everybody should be allowed to go nuts and scream and yell and have a good time. It’s not like a normal golf tournament. It’s more like a hockey game.”

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Matt Lowe (left) and Steve Harry dressed in U.S. colours to cheer on the US while admiring the talent of the players on the International team. (Tod Leonard)

Ironically, another fan who was actually wearing a hockey jersey had a differing opinion. Steve Harry, from the Chicago suburb of Oswego, snapped up Presidents Cup tickets as soon as they went on sale and was at Medinah on Thursday with his regular golf buddy, Matt Lowe. They stood out at the ropes at the eighth hole, with Lowe wearing flag overalls and Harry donning the USA hockey sweater of Olympics hero Jack Hughes.

The two said that when they got on the shuttle bus to the course in the morning, they felt a bit out of place as the only people with American gear on. “We thought, ‘Oh boy, we’re going to stand out like a sore thumb.’ But at the first tee one lady was dressed as the Statue of Liberty, so we’re not completely oddballs here.”

Harry said he did wonder what the atmosphere would be like coming to the Presidents Cup after Bethpage.

“I’ll be honest, it was a little embarrassing watching kind of some of the stuff that happened at Ryder Cup, in my opinion,” Harry said. “So as much as I wanted to be a team guy and support the team and be out here and cheer, I didn’t want it to be over the edge.”

Harry believed that Midwesterners would show up in a different way this week, and that certainly appeared to be the case on Thursday in the early going. First, the crowd was sizeable – far more than two years ago at Royal Montreal – with the first hole nearly encircled with fans. As some tell it, they are pro golf-starved in Chicagoland, and beyond some LIV Golf events in the past few years, America’s third-largest city doesn’t get to see the stars very often. (The PGA Tour is looking to change that.)

Among the early groups, the gallery seemed to cheer like they do in any other PGA Tour event, with no nasty comments or yells during shots. Even the players’ wives were lightly guarded inside the ropes after someone threw a cup of beer at Rory McIlroy’s wife at Bethpage.

When the Internationals’ Ryo Hisatsune missed a short putt at the second to lose the hole, there were just a couple of obligatory groans.

“Be respectful of the players; be respectful of the game,” Harry said. “It’s like Tuesday night golf league – if somebody else makes an amazing putt, you give them a high five. We have kids and want them to grow up knowing that golf is a gentleman’s game. Root for your team, but you don’t have to be obnoxious about it. … It’s like watching Tom Kim or Min Woo Lee; they’re good players. But as much as I want to see the USA win, I don’t want to make them feel like they never want to come back here again.”

Harry said he relishes team golf and that motivated him to attend a couple of LIV events. He knows the Ryder Cup has a much larger stature in the game but enjoys the Presidents Cup as something of a warm-up events for players who could become future US team stalwarts.

The talk of the Presidents Cup going away or being replaced has run rampant of late. Some observers believe PGA Tour CEO and commissioner Brian Rolapp is looking closely at an event whose results are so one-sided that it brings long-term viability into question.

Tens of thousands of fans at Medinah and more than a million watching on TV on the weekend might differ. For better or worse, not every team event needs to look and sound like the Ryder Cup, though an International win would certainly help.

So how about just enjoying the Presidents Cup for what it is and the savages can stay home. – TOD LEONARD

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5:30am: No, you technically can’t show your partner the line in matchplay. 

On the eighth hole of Cameron Young and Xander Schauffele’s Four-ball match against Hideki Matsuyama and Ryo Hisatsune on Thursday, Young found himself in a situation we all find ourselves in during weekend team match play games with buddies. Young was pretty much out of the hole after hitting his approach in the water, but he took his drop anyway and chipped his fourth shot to four feet, setting up a bogey putt. His partner, Schauffele, meanwhile, missed the green with his second then chipped it up to eight feet, right on the same line as Young’s bogey putt. 

After some deliberation and calling in a rules official, Hisatsune told Young to pick up his mark. Normally, in weekend games, your partner would ask you “show me the line.” That’s actually not allowed, as NBC rules analyst Mark Dusbabek pointed out right after. You are technically allowed to putt out even if the putt has been conceded, except if that putt is going to aid your partner. It’s one of those rules we all break in our own money games, but it would actually get you in trouble in a legitimate Four-ball competition. According to Rule 23.6, if you putt out and show your partner the line, your score would count without penalty, put your partner’s score would not count for your side. 

Schauffele, naturally, missed his eight footer, and the Internationals took the hole with a par. – Christopher Powers

5am: You rarely see a player change putters during the Presidents Cup. 

The biennial matches aren’t typically the place for experimenting on the greens. But that didn’t stop Justin Thomas.

Thomas opted for a Scotty Cameron Xperimental 10.5 at Medinah, a notable switch given the stakes and the format. Matchplay leaves little margin for a flat stroke, and a new flatstick is either a spark or a gamble.

The more interesting detail is in the hosel. From the looks of it, Thomas’ version sports a flow neck rather than the jet neck, a change that alters how the face rotates through the stroke and suits a slightly different putting motion.

Whether it’s a one-week experiment or something longer-term remains to be seen. For now, JT is rolling it with something new.

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[PHOTO: Ben Jared]

4am: Anthony Kim is getting a documentary. 

The details are scarce, but Propagate Content has announced an upcoming documentary on the golfer. And, according to the press release, Kim is involved. “Now, after an improbable return and a victory few believed possible, Kim tells his story for the first time, on his own terms,” the press release reads. “A deeply personal journey of recovery, redemption, and the search for what comes next.” Once a PGA Tour star and a US Ryder Cup hero, Kim had his career put on hold due to a series of injuries, addiction and mental health issues. After nearly 12 years removed from pro golf, Kim returned in 2024 by joining LIV. In February, Kim won the LIV Australia event for his first victory in 16 years. 

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