Though the Internationals performed higher as a staff this week on the Presidents Cup, the American facet ended up because the winners due to a record-setting efficiency in Sunday singles.
The Individuals captured the 2026 Presidents Cup at Medinah Nation Membership 17-13, successful their eleventh straight on the biennial competitors. The house squad put a beatdown on the Internationals within the remaining, successful the session 9.5-2.5 — the biggest Sunday singles margin in Presidents Cup historical past.
The U.S. was down 10.5-7.5 heading into the ultimate day and though it’s a easy means to take a look at it now, they simply flat-out performed higher than the Internationals with 12 factors left on the scoreboard.
“Generally you have to hit the photographs and make the putts. The U.S. simply did that a little bit bit higher at the moment,” mentioned Worldwide captain Geoff Ogilvy. “First 4 classes, you could not ask for greater than to have a three-and-a-half-point lead going into singles within the U.S., that is a tough factor to do. We did the laborious work the primary three days. The fellows tried their hardest at the moment. A very good little bit of crimson on that board, and Chicago received louder and louder and louder as that occurs.
“You might have a pair putts go in on the proper time and the momentum goes our means, and it simply did not try this at the moment.”
This dominance within the particular person portion of a staff competitors was reflective of the Ryder Cup final fall, the place the U.S. went 8.5-3.5 within the finale however nonetheless fell in need of Europe. It additionally exhibits simply how poor the Individuals are within the fourball and foursomes parts of those occasions, particularly foursomes — the place they’re 8-26 during the last two years.
However their Sunday effort marked the biggest final-day comeback to win the Presidents Cup with Jacob Bridgeman incomes the clinching level when he defeated Min Woo Lee 1 up.
“I am tremendous pleased with them. These guys by no means gave up. They believed in one another. They did a (heck of a) job. They have been actually particular. I knew these guys have been particular,” mentioned American captain Brandt Snedeker.
“I maintain saying they fought for one another at the moment. It was spectacular to look at. The truth that we went out… Is it a document in singles? That does not occur except you might have a particular group of men, and we do.”
Rookie Chris Gotterup was tied as one of many highest points-earners for the American facet together with world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and Cameron Younger, who received the primary match of the day and set the tone for the American comeback.
In all, Snedeker’s captain’s picks went 6-0-0 in singles, together with 21-year-old Jackson Koivun. Koivun staged a livid comeback towards Si Woo Kim, the Worldwide staff’s highest-ranked participant, with three birdies in his remaining seven holes. The exclamation level got here on No. 18, when Koivun, after each his drive and his method, unleashed a pair of vicious Tiger Woods-like membership twirls — a lot to the delight of the remainder of the staff, who had gathered to look at the younger rookie attempt to take his match to the end line.
“I put him in a giant spot at the moment, a very huge spot. That was an enormous match. If we have been going to have any likelihood at the moment, he needed to win that match,” Snedker mentioned. “The fellows have been cheering within the room final night time after we made that call to place him in that spot.
“The entire staff went loopy as a result of they knew they needed the child to go up towards Si Woo, and he delivered at the moment in a giant means.”
For all of the speak of the Worldwide stalwarts, like Kim, placing in work over the earlier three days, the massive names fell flat for the finale.
Hideki Matsuyama, Adam Scott, Kim, and Lee all misplaced their matches — with Lee’s loss to Bridgeman the deciding level — whereas Ryan Fox, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Ryo Hisatsune (within the first match of the day), and Nico Echavarria (towards Scheffler) additionally dropping.
Canadian Corey Conners received run over by Justin Thomas within the third match of the day, sitting 5 down via simply seven holes. Thomas defeated Conners 5 and three.
Nick Taylor ended up tied with Russell Henley within the remaining match of the 2026 competitors. Conners earned two factors for the Internationals — each alongside his countryman in foursomes — whereas Taylor ended up with 2.5 factors after his Sunday end result.
For Taylor, he stepped up in a giant means as a rookie on the squad. He’ll be 40 the subsequent time the Presidents Cup is performed, however hopefully he performs effectively sufficient to earn a spot on the staff — or did sufficient to earn one other captain’s decide — as he was heaped with reward for each his sport and his perspective via the week within the staff surroundings.
Tom Kim and Sungjae Im have been the lone winners on the Worldwide facet Sunday, with Kim defeating Wyndham Clark 3 and a pair of and incomes 4 factors for the week, the very best point-earner for the dropping facet. Im defeated Sam Burns 3 and 1.
“The hassle makes me actually completely satisfied as a captain,” Ogilvy mentioned. “They did a tremendous job this week. It was unimaginable. It does not make it any much less disappointing. Proud to be a captain, disenchanted that it did not go their means.
“They needed it, and so they did all the pieces they might to win this event this week.”
Though the Internationals in the end fell brief, it appeared to be, at minimal, one other 12 months of constructing a winner brick by brick. This core group needs to be again in two years’ time in Australia and with one other 12 months of expertise underneath their belt to attempt to win for the primary time since 1998.
“That is an unimaginable group of individuals, and it is not simply the gamers right here… the Worldwide Workforce is a really huge group of individuals, and so they’re very enthusiastic about this staff. They love the defend… They love all the pieces about this event and this staff,” Ogilvy mentioned. “This staff is not any joke. We’re coming, and after we crack this factor, it is going to get actually good.”
