The gamers competing on this yr’s Presidents Cup, which is going down at Royal Montreal Golf Membership in Canada from September 27-29, have been introduced.
Each groups comprise six computerized qualifiers and 6 captain’s picks. Workforce USA is being captained by Jim Furyk, whereas the Worldwide group, which includes all nations exterior of Europe, is being led by Canadian Mike Weir.
Workforce USA six computerized qualifiers from the factors record have been Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay and Sahith Theegala.
And Furyk made issues straightforward for himself by choosing the following six highest factors scorers to make up the remainder of the group. They’re Sam Burns, Tony Finau, Russell Henley, Keegan Bradley, Brian Harman and Max Homa.
Weir’s group includes computerized qualifiers Hideki Matsuyama, Sungjae Im, Adam Scott, Tom Kim, Jason Day and Byeong Hun An, together with captain’s picks Corey Conners, Min Woo Lee, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Taylor Pendrith, Si Woo Kim and Mackenzie Hughes.
Weir has clearly performed the house benefit card in choosing three Canadians in Conners, Pendrith and Hughes. Whereas Conners completed seventh within the standings, and Pendrith eleventh, Hughes was three locations exterior the top-12 factors scorers in fifteenth.
BRADLEY PLAYS HIS WAY INTO US TEAM
Keegan Bradley had beforehand been one in every of Furyk’s vice captains for the matches, however following his win within the BMW Championship earned his method onto the group as a captain’s choose, leaving Furyk to search out one other assistant.
“After I named Keegan as a captain’s assistant for the Presidents Cup, I knew there was an opportunity he would play his method onto the group,” Furyk defined. “And I can say unquestionably he did simply that. The grit he confirmed within the closing spherical in Memphis adopted by the win in Denver exemplified the aggressive nature he has at all times performed with, and I do know he’ll deliver that very same fireplace to Royal Montreal in just a few weeks.”
Because the President’s Cup is a PGA Tour-sanctioned occasion, gamers contracted to LIV Golf are usually not eligible for choice for both group, so the likes of Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau are lacking from the US group, whereas clearly candidates Cameron Smith and Joaquin Niemann have been additionally barred from competing.
INTERNATIONAL TEAM SEEKS TO END LONG LOSING RUN
The Worldwide Workforce will likely be seeking to break a streak of 9 consecutive defeats towards the People, together with the newest 17.5-12.5 loss at Quail Hole in 2022.
Because the occasion was launched in 1994, the Worldwide has solely gained two of the 14 matches, though the 2 most up-to-date ‘house’ occasions for the Worldwide aspect resulted in slender defeats – a 16-14 loss at Royal Melbourne in 2019, and a 15½-14½ loss in South Korea in 2015.
