Kiwi Ryan Fox and Australian Min Woo Lee have gained a vital point for the International team on the penultimate day of the Presidents Cup contest against the United States at Medinah, Chicago.<\/p>\n
For the second day running, Fox and Lee were winners, this time steaming past Sam Burns and Wyndham Clark in their foursomes contest with a 3 and 2 victory that finished on the 16th hole.<\/p>\n
The Internationals take a 10-1\/2 to 7-1\/2 lead into the final day of singles matches. They need five of the 12 points on offer to gain a rare win over the US, who have won the last 10 of their biennial clashes.<\/p>\n
Today’s win was easier, despite Morikawa and Clark taking an early 2-up lead. Fox nailed a birdie on the seventh to even up the score and it stayed close, until Fox and Lee won three consecutive holes from 13 to 15.<\/p>\n
Fox said he and Lee were surprised team captain Geoff Ogilvy had paired them in the foursomes, but it worked well.<\/p>\n
“We’ve had a lot of fun the last couple of days and hit a lot of good shots when it mattered,” Fox told the Sky Sport broadcast. “Playing with one of your best mates is brilliant and I felt like it showed the last couple of days.”<\/p>\n
Lee said he began badly today and his teammate was a big help.<\/p>\n
“I felt I started terribly, but he was right there on my back, cheering me on, and it’s OK and we turned it round, which is awesome.”<\/p>\n
The US team managed to claw back a point over the day. Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns claimed the last holes to beat Hideki Matsuyama and Ryo Hisatsune 2 and 1 in the last fourball match of the morning.<\/p>\n
US team captain Brandt Snedeker surprisingly stood down world No.1 Scheffler from the afternoon action. The session’s four matches were split 2-2, with Fox and Lee’s win being the final match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiwi Ryan Fox and Australian Min Woo Lee have gained a vital point for the International team on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-613562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}