🏌️5 Best Pairings In Presidents Cup History

Good Morning! The United States are now 13-1-1 all-time in the Presidents Cup, with the lone International win coming in 1998. The Americans have led after 41 of the last 46 sessions in the event dating back to 2005 singles.

⛳ This day in history: On this date, in the 1882 Open Championship, held at the Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland, Bob Ferguson won for the third straight time, with a 171 total, by three strokes over Willie Fernie, who would win in 1883.

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Team US Win 10th Straight Presidents Cup

The United States continued its historical dominance of the Presidents Cup beating the International team 18.5 to 11.5 at Royal Montreal Golf Club.

The US has now won 13 times in the 15 playings of the Cup since its inception in 1994. The lone International victory came in Australia in 1998, while the 2003 event in South Africa was tied.

The US started the week by far the stronger team on paper, with all 12 players ranked among the top 25 in the world, compared with only four of the International team.

Australian Adam Scott (2-3-0) performed reasonably on a personal level, but that was scant consolation as he played on his 10th losing team in a row.

🏆 Who's The MVP? Several players scored well during the match, but following the fifth and final session, the Sunday singles, three players finished joint top of the points scoring with four apiece – and they’re all Team US players.

Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa and Patrick Cantlay all accumulated four points in five sessions of play.

Another notable haul on the US team is the 3.5 secured by Burns - the only player on the US team who went undefeated, while two others, Scheffler and Russell Henley, won three points.

For the Internationals, points were a lot harder to come by, with six players reaching two - Scott, Conners, Matsuyama, Pendrith, Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Si Woo Kim. For Scott in particular, his Friday foursomes win alongside Pendrith against Morikawa and Theegala will have been particularly sweet as it made him the all-time leading points scorer for the International Team.

Between the 24 players on both teams, only one player didn’t register any points. Brian Harman played in three of the five sessions, but he lost them all, with his final chance coming and going with a 2&1 defeat to Bezuidenhout in the Sunday singles.

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These Are The Best Pairings In Presidents Cup History

The Presidents Cup pits the best USA players up against the best rest-of-world talent excluding Europe.

Today, we take a look at the seven best Presidents Cup pairings in the history of the match, with all seven contributing at least four points.

⛳️ Branden Grace and Louis Oosthuizen (Team International): The South Africans are the International Team's most successful partnership in history despite only playing together in two editions of the match.

Grace and Oosthuizen played seven matches in 2015 and 2017 and won five, tied one and lost one.

⛳️ Fred Couples and Davis Love III (Team US): This pair of former world number ones are the US' most successful Presidents Cup pairing and, along with Grace and Oosthuizen, are the only team to win over 5 points in the match's history.

They won 5.5 points from eight games across the 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2005 editions. They won their one and only foursomes match and played seven of their eight games in the four balls, winning 4.5 points.

⛳️ Patrick Reed and Jordan Spieth (Team US): Texans Patrick Reed and Jordan Spieth were the US' go-to pairing between the 2015 and 2017 Presidents Cups.

They won 4.5 points from their five games together in 2015 and 2017, including going 2 out of 2 in foursomes and winning 2.5 points from three four ball match-ups.

⛳️ Steve Stricker and Tiger Woods (Team US): Good friends Steve Stricker and Tiger Woods were a frequent pairing in the Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup, and they won an impressive four of their five games together in the US vs Internationals match.

They won two of their three foursomes games and went undefeated in four ball with two wins from two.

⛳️ Rickie Fowler and Justin Thomas (Team US): Fowler and Thomas played five games together in 2017 at Liberty National and in 2019 at Royal Melbourne, going unbeaten.

They won one and halved two in their three foursomes matches and went 2 out of 2 in four balls.

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