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<\/p>\nMEDINAH, Ill. \u2014 The United States trimmed the International Team\u2019s advantage Saturday morning at the Presidents Cup, but will be without Scottie Scheffler next.<\/p>\n
U.S. captain Brandt Snedeker elected to sit Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world, for the Saturday afternoon foursome (alternate-shot) session. The United States trail the International Team 8 1\/2 to 5 1\/2.<\/p>\n
Scheffler has not sat for a session at either the Ryder Cup or Presidents Cup since the 2023 edition of the former, when he was benched following a record loss with Brooks Koepka. But the move has merit \u2014 Scheffler is 1-8 all time in foursomes, and he played poorly for most of his match Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just coincidental that Snedeker announced the decision moments after Scheffler made a 21-foot birdie putt on No. 15 to tie his and Sam Burns\u2019 match with Hideki Matsuyama and Ryo Hisatsune. Scheffler and Burns won the next two holes to get the full point.<\/p>\n
Instead, Burns will go out with Wyndham Clark, the Americans\u2019 best player so far this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur team is a great team, and I\u2019m looking forward to going out and supporting the guys. It\u2019ll be fun this afternoon, cheer them on. Get a little rest,\u201d Scheffler told the NBC broadcast.<\/p>\n
Scheffler appeared not to know he would not play Saturday afternoon until the broadcast asked him a question about it. But he took it in stride \u2014 he was at the first tee as the groups teed off, shirt untucked and cheering his teammates.<\/p>\n
Can the International team win the Presidents Cup?<\/p>\n
Brody Miller and Lauren Morales-Jones<\/p>\n
The Internationals won all five matches on Friday evening to take a 7-3 lead, putting the U.S. (which has not lost this cup since 1998) in an unfamiliar position.<\/p>\n
The American red dominated the leaderboard midway through the round, with the U.S. team up in all four matches and threatening to steal back all the momentum lost Friday night. A tied Presidents Cup going into Saturday afternoon would have been one of the more riveting editions of this competition.<\/p>\n
Instead, the International team fought back. Si Woo Kim and Nick Taylor drained long putts. Tom Kim told the roaring American-centric crowd to be quiet. And the Internationals stayed in the lead, needing 15 1\/2 points to win the cup.<\/p>\n
The Justin Thomas\/Jackson Koivun pair were 2 up with four holes to go and had to settle for a half-point.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m gutted. I just feel like I let (Koivun) down today. I\u2019m bummed and I told him that I\u2019m sorry, not only for him but the team. If I play and do some things I should have, we would have a point there,\u201d Thomas told NBC.<\/p>\n
Clark and Collin Morikawa got up by 2 through eight holes, lost it in three holes and then lost the match by losing the 16th and 17th holes to the Kims. The latter duo is now 3-0 this week.<\/p>\n
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\n Tom Kim, left, and Si Woo Kim make a gesture to the crowd after a key moment in their match. (Michael Reaves \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Chris Gotterup and Cameron Young won the first four holes against Canadians Taylor and Corey Conners, and eventually won, 2 and 1.<\/p>\n
The par-3s again were where the Internationals gained ground.<\/p>\n
Through the first two days, the Internationals have won 12 of the par-3 holes to the United States\u2019 three. That trend again continued on Saturday morning:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Lee and Im went 3-0-1 against Thomas and Koivun on Medinah\u2019s four par-3 holes.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The Kims went 2-1-1 against Morikawa and Clark.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Taylor and Conners went 1-0-3 against Gotterup and Young.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Matsuyama and Hisatsune went 2-2 against Scheffler and Burns.<\/p>\n
Presidents Cup Saturday afternoon tee times, pairings<\/p>\n
(All times ET. U.S. team listed first.)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Match 1, 2:15 p.m.: Patrick Cantlay\/Xander Schauffele vs. Tom Kim\/Si Woo Kim<\/p>\n
\u2022 Match 2, 2:29 p.m.: Russell Henley\/Jacob Bridgeman vs. Corey Conners\/Nick Taylor<\/p>\n
\u2022 Match 3, 2:43 p.m.: Cameron Young\/Chris Gotterup vs. Adam Scott\/Sungjae Im<\/p>\n
\u2022 Match 4, 2:57 p.m.: Sam Burns\/Wyndham Clark vs. Ryan Fox\/Min Woo Lee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEDINAH, Ill. \u2014 The United States trimmed the International Team\u2019s advantage Saturday morning at the Presidents Cup, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-861939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}