The United States team took control by midday and completed the largest final-day comeback in event history to win the Presidents Cup over the International team on Sunday outside Chicago.<\/p>\n
The final tally was 17-13, with the U.S. prevailing in nine of 12 singles matches (with one tie) on the final day.<\/p>\n
Jackson Koivun, just a few months into his pro career after starring collegiately for Auburn, put the U.S. on the cusp of victory with a birdie on the 18th hole to secure a 2-up triumph against South Korea\u2019s Si Woo Kim.<\/p>\n
Jacob Bridgeman wrapped up the team victory by winning the final hole against Australia\u2019s Min Woo Lee for a 1-up result at Medinah Country Club\u2019s No. 3 course.<\/p>\n
The U.S. trailed 7-3 after Friday\u2019s play and faced a 10 1\/2-7 1\/2 hole entering Sunday, when President Donald Trump was in attendance.<\/p>\n
The International team hasn\u2019t won the Presidents Cup since its only victory in 1998.<\/p>\n
Among the late matches, Koivun trailed by two holes until winning four in a five-hole stretch.<\/p>\n
The U.S. side won six of the first eight matches to surge into the lead.<\/p>\n
Cameron Young broke a tie in his match by winning three consecutive holes (Nos. 11-13) on the way to defeating Japan\u2019s Ryo Hisatsune 3 and 2 in the day\u2019s first match.<\/p>\n
South Korea\u2019s Tom Kim countered for the International team, beating Wyndham Clark 3 and 2.<\/p>\n
Justin Thomas finished a 5-and-3 victory against Canada\u2019s Corey Conners, while Scottie Scheffler topped Colombia\u2019s Nico Echavarria 2 and 1.<\/p>\n
When South Korea\u2019s Sungjae Im defeated Sam Burns 3 and 1, it pushed the International squad to a 12 1\/2-10 1\/2 lead. But the U.S. team was ahead in five of the remaining matches and the other two were tied.<\/p>\n
Then Chris Gotterup grabbed a 1-up victory against South Africa\u2019s Christiaan Bezuidenhout. Patrick Cantlay followed with a 2-and-1 triumph against Australia\u2019s Adam Scott, and Collin Morikawa completed a 1-up decision against Japan\u2019s Hideki Matsuyama.<\/p>\n
After Bridgeman\u2019s clincher, Xander Schauffele completed a 2-and-1 victory against New Zealand\u2019s Ryan Fox. Schauffele had a chance at providing the clinching point for the U.S. side, but his par putt on the par-3 16th hole, after his tee shot went into a bunker, was off the mark. That allowed Fox to win the hole and extend the match.<\/p>\n
Russell Henley and Canada\u2019s Nick Taylor completed the competition with the only tie of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States team took control by midday and completed the largest final-day comeback in event history to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-862919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862919","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=862919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}