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 automated qualifiers and 6 captain’s picks. Staff USA is being captained by Jim Furyk, whereas the Worldwide workforce, which includes all nations exterior of Europe, is being led by Canadian Mike Weir.
Staff USA six automated qualifiers from the factors listing have been Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay and Sahith Theegala.
And Furyk made issues simple for himself by selecting the subsequent six highest factors scorers to make up the remainder of the workforce. They’re Sam Burns, Tony Finau, Russell Henley, Keegan Bradley, Brian Harman and Max Homa.
Weir’s workforce includes automated 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 selecting 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 all Furyk’s vice captains for the matches, however following his win within the BMW Championship earned his means onto the workforce as a captain’s decide, leaving Furyk to seek out one other assistant.
“Once I named Keegan as a captain’s assistant for the Presidents Cup, I knew there was an opportunity he would play his means onto the workforce,” Furyk defined. “And I can say unquestionably he did simply that. The grit he confirmed within the remaining 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 carry that very same hearth to Royal Montreal in just a few weeks.”
Because the President’s Cup is a PGA Tour-sanctioned occasion, gamers contracted to LIV Golf should not eligible for choice for both workforce, so the likes of Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau are lacking from the US workforce, whereas clearly candidates Cameron Smith and Joaquin Niemann have been additionally barred from competing.
INTERNATIONAL TEAM SEEKS TO END LONG LOSING RUN
The Worldwide Staff will probably be seeking to break a streak of 9 consecutive defeats in opposition to the Individuals, 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 facet resulted in slim defeats – a 16-14 loss at Royal Melbourne in 2019, and a 15½-14½ loss in South Korea in 2015.