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HUNTER MAHAN (U.S.) def. CAMILO VILLEGAS (Int'l) |
2 and 1 |
OVERVIEW: Mahan struggled at the outset, making bogeys at the first two holes to give Villegas the early 2 up advantage. The American hung tough, though, and twice squared the match on the front side before taking a 1-up lead with a par when Villegas three-putted the par-3 ninth. Mahan clung to that advantage for the next seven holes before Villegas drove way left on the short par-4 17th. The Colombian dumped his next shot into a greenside bunker and couldn't save par -- giving Mahan the victory. The American finishes with a 2-1-1 record while Villegas didn't win a match in his Presidents Cup debut.
QUOTE: "I think when they put me out first, I need to set the tone. I didn't want to get the match off to a loss and luckily Stewart played great so, that was two great matches there. ... We didn't give each other many holes and it was nice to make a few putts there and to finish it off the way I did." -- Hunter Mahan |
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STEWART CINK (U.S.) def. ADAM SCOTT (Int'l) |
4 and 3 |
OVERVIEW: Cink gave the U.S. its first point in Sunday's Singles, drubbing the Australian in the first completed match of the day. Cink never trailed, carding six birdies (against one bogey) through the 15 holes. It's the second consecutive Presidents Cup that Cink has delivered a lopsided win for his U.S. team; two years ago in Montreal, he beat Nick O'Hern 6 and 4 in Singles. Cink took the lead with a great tee shot on the par-3 second, landing 2-1/2 feet from the pin for birdie. Scott answered with a birdie on the third hole, but when he bogeyed the par-4 sixth after a poor shot landed on the far side of the cart path down the right side of the fairway, Cink took the lead and never looked back. Cink rolled in a birdie putt just inside eight feet at the par-4 eighth to go 2 up. He also drained birdie putts of 19 feet, 5 inches at the 10th; 7 feet, 9 inches at the 13th; and 5 feet, 3 inches at the par-3 14th.
QUOTE: "It is very satisfying. To come back yesterday afternoon where I really played horrible, and to come out and play more like myself, it feels great and I'm just proud to earn a point." -- Stewart Cink |
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JUSTIN LEONARD (U.S.) and MIKE WEIR (Int'l) |
Halved |
OVERVIEW: Leonard never led in this match, but he hung tough at the end, winning four of the final seven holes -- including the last -- to earn the halve. Weir twice led 2 up, the second time when Leonard missed the green at the par-3 12th and couldn't get up and down for par. But Leonard answered with a 13-footer for birdie at the 12th and another from 14 feet at the next to square the match. Weir won the 15th with a par, but Leonard pulled even again with a birdie at No. 16 to set the stage for an exciting ending. The American couldn't stand prosperity when he drove left of the fairway at the 17th hole, then hit his next shot in a greenside bunker on the way to a bogey. A two-putt birdie from 36-feet after Weir missed his 12-footer ended the hard-fought match fittingly in a tie.
QUOTES: "We both had some moments, and I gave Mike a couple of holes and he gave me a couple of holes. But we both hit a lot of good shots out there. We didn't want to go play anymore. You know, this thing, 18 holes, you halve the match. So nice of Tiger to make that putt so we didn't have to trek over to 8 and keep going." -- Justin Leonard
"It was probably fitting (for the match to end in a tie). We both played well. It was obviously a back-and-forth match all the way. What can I say? It was kind of tough when we saw, from my perspective, when we saw so much red on the board, we didn't get off to the start we wanted. It was tough." -- Mike Weir |
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ANTHONY KIM (U.S.) def. ROBERT ALLENBY (Int'l) |
5 and 3 |
OVERVIEW: Allenby fell behind quickly, with bogeys at the second and third holes, three-putting from 35 feet at the second. It was a dramatic early turn, as he appeared to be in control of the hole when Kim failed to find the green. But Kim managed to get up-and-down for par to take the lead. Once Kim grabbed the lead, he never gave it up. Allenby's bogey at the third put Kim 2 up, then Kim birdied the fifth and seventh holes, with putts of 16 feet, 4 inches and 25 feet, 8 inches. Allenby's troubles continued on the back nine, as he bogeyed the 10th, 11th and 15th holes. For Kim, who won three of his four matches, it was a great way to end his first Presidents Cup.
QUOTE: "It means a lot. I've been struggling with my game all year, and obviously I had a couple of things to work on, and that's why I didn't play in the (Saturday) morning round. But I dug deep and I played the way I know how, and fortunately enough, it was good enough today. Just overall my course management was a lot better. I was more positive over every shot and definitely tried to pick some better lines. Fortunately, that worked out for me today." -- Anthony Kim |
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GEOFF OGILVY (Int'l) def. STEVE STRICKER (U.S.) |
2 and 1 |
OVERVIEW: Who saw this one coming? Stricker had played brilliantly all week, especially in his Saturday afternoon Four-ball where he was a putting machine. Granted, Ogilvy had finally gotten a win, playing with Robert Allenby, in the same Four-ball session. At the same time, though, the Aussie was hitting it so inconsistently that he had suggested to Greg Norman he sit in the morning Foursomes. Once the mano-y-mano battle got going, though, Ogilvy hung tough. Stricker never led in this Singles battle between two former winners of the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship. Ogilvy led 2 up at the turn, but Stricker narrowed the gap to 1 down twice on the back nine. The second came when he rolled in a 3-footer for birdie at the 13th hole. But Ogilvy answered with a 7-footer for birdie on No. 17 to earn the victory.
QUOTE: "It's a consolation prize, I guess really. Disappointed for the team. I'm sure we all tried our best all week. ... I played rubbish the first two days. I played quite well the last two days." - Geoff Ogilvy |
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SEAN O'HAIR (U.S.) def. ERNIE ELS (Int'l) |
6 and 4 |
| OVERVIEW: O'Hair opened with a birdie when he nearly drove the green on the opening par-5 first, then added another birdie at the par-3 second when his tee shot landed within eight feet. After that, he and Els exchanged a boatload of pars. Els, in fact, did not produce a single birdie in his round; his missed seven-foot birdie putt at the par-5 fifth typlified his day. When he bogeyed the par-4 10th after his approach shot landed just over the green, he found himself 3 down. O'Hair then put the match away with birdies at the 12th and 13th holes. His approach shot at the 12th landed five feet from the pin, then he got up-and-down for birdie at the short par-4 13th after his drive nearly pin high to the right of the green. O'Hair hit 78.6 percent of greens in regulation Sunday, his best performance of the week. |
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RYO ISHIKAWA (Int'l) def. KENNY PERRY (U.S.) |
2 and 1 |
| OVERVIEW: This was an interesting pairing of the oldest player in the field at 49 against the youngest at 18. In fact, Ishikawa is younger than all three of Perry's children, including his caddy, Justin. Neither player led more than 1 up in this tight match until Perry conceded at the 17th and gave the rookie from Japan the 2-up victory. Perry drew first blood when he made a 13-footer for birdie at the fourth hole but Ishikawa squared the match with a 5-footer at No. 7. The teenager's par at the 10th hole gave him a 1-up advantage after Perry couldn't get up and down from the right greenside bunker. Perry did manage to square the match when he made a 12-footer at the drivable 13th but Ishikawa answered with a 6-footer at the par-3 14th to gain the lead he would not relinquish. Ishikawa finished his first Presidents Cup with a solid 3-2-0 record. |
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TIM CLARK (Int'l) def. ZACH JOHNSON (U.S.) |
4 and 3 |
OVERVIEW: Clark didn't produce the most points for the Internationals this week, but he was among Captain Greg Norman's best performers, punctuating an impressive performance with a dominating win over Johnson. Clark had some hard-luck losses in team play, particularly the heartbreaker with Mike Weir when they had Tiger Woods/Steve Stricker on the ropes before Woods produced his magic in the final two holes. Clark made sure there would be no such American rally against Johnson, producing birdies on four of his first seven holes to go 5 up. Johnson didn't post his first birdie until the par-4 10th, and he would later add four more birdies -- if he had played any other opponent, he likely would have cakewalked to victory. But Clark stood his ground with four birdies in the final six holes. When adding in his Four-ball round Saturday afternoon, Clark had 14 birdies in 33 holes in the last 24 hours. No doubt that will have him feeling confident going into this week's PGA TOUR event in Las Vegas, which he's scheduled to play.
QUOTES: "Unfortunately for Zach, I came out firing. Obviously my game had been there all week, and today I just felt very comfortable, very calm out there, and for the first time all week, the putts started to go. The first few days, a lot lipped out, but today, unfortunately for Zach, they all seemed to go in. .. He played great on the back and he showed what sort of fight he has. I tell you, if I had not kept on the pedal, I would have been in trouble." - Tim Clark
"It was really impressive. I missed one fairway, and I actually made birdie on that hole. Missed one green in regulation. So I'm 5 under and I don't even get to see the last three holes. So it was fitting the way it ended. He just outplayed me early on, especially, and that's really all it took." - Zach Johnson |
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TIGER WOODS (U.S.) def. Y.E. YANG (Int'l) |
6 and 5 |
OVERVIEW: Turns out, Woods didn't realize it at the time but the 9-footer he made for birdie at the 13th hole clinched the Cup for the Americans and capped a lopsided victory over his PGA Championship nemesis. Not to mention, Woods, who struggled early in his career finding compatible partners, became just the third player to go undefeated at The Presidents Cup. Yang led early, but his bogey at the third hole squared the match and Woods wasted no time getting the upper hand. He two-putted from 38 feet at the par-5 fifth hole to go 1 up and increased his lead when Yang made bogey at the next. Woods padded that margin with birdies at Nos. 8, 9 and 11 before the clincher at the 13th hole to seal the win. The win was particularly sweet since Yang had snapped Woods' streak of majors won with the 54-hole lead at 14 when the Korean won at Hazeltine.
QUOTE: "He got me once and hopefully I can get him a second time. But he got off to a good start. He birdied the first and I made a mistake there, and from then on, I actually played pretty good. I hit a couple loose shots here and there, but I really putted well, other than missing that putt over there at 12, that was about it." -- Tiger Woods |
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LUCAS GLOVER (U.S.) and VIJAY SINGH (Int'l) |
Halved |
OVERVIEW: Singh never trailed in this match but Glover mounted a spirited rally on the back nine. The big Fijian had a 3-up advantage at the turn after a 6-foot birdie at the sixth hole and a pair of Glover bogeys. But the American got untracked with a 28-footer for birdie at No. 11 to trim Singh's lead to 2-up and squared the match with consecutive birdies at Nos. 15 and 16. The two halved the last two holes with a bogey and a birdie that Singh conceded after he missed his eagle putt. Singh went undefeated at 2-0-3 while Glover, the reigning U.S. Open champion, went 0-3-1.
QUOTE: "We already lost (The Presidents Cup) on the 13th hole, so kind of almost demoralizing. But Lucas played well." -- Vijay Singh |
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PHIL MICKELSON (U.S.) def. RETIEF GOOSEN (Int'l) |
2 and 1 |
OVERVIEW: Mickelson turned the tables on Goosen, who had beaten him by the same score in Singles in 2003. The victory was Mickelson's fourth in five matches this week and he contributed 4 1/5 points to the U.S. cause in the lefthander's best-ever Presidents Cup performance. He got quite a surprise on Saturday when his wife Amy, who has been at home in San Diego as she battles breast cancer, showed up at the team hotel. "She actually hid in the bathroom when I walked in my room, I didn't know she was there, and she scared me pretty good," Mickelson said. "It was an awesome surprise, though." Goosen never led in the match as Mickelson seized the advantage on the first hole with a 20-inch putt after an extremely well-played bunker shot. He twice led 2-up on the front after Goosen bogeys but each time the smooth-swinging South African won the next hole. Goosen squared the match once -- at the 13th hole where he made a 10-footer for birdie -- but Mickelson birdied the 15th and 17th to earn the final point for the Americans.
QUOTE: "I was a few under, but I didn't putt the way I had the first few matches and we made a lot of pars together and the match was pretty close. But it was a fun week, and I'm really happy to be part of this team and to see the way our guys played today, especially early on." -- Phil Mickelson |
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ANGEL CABRERA (Int'l) def. JIM FURYK (U.S.) |
4 and 3 |
| OVERVIEW: Furyk normally is near-unbeatable in Singles, but he trailed from the opening hole as Cabrera got up-and-down from the bunker on the par 5 for birdie and kept the steady American from rallying in the final match that ultimately meant nothing to the Presidents Cup outcome. It was Cabrera's first win at Harding Park this week after losing his previous three matches. If you combine Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup competition, Furyk suffered just his third loss in 12 matches (he's now 8-3-1). Cabrera doesn't have as much experience, but in Presidents Cup singles, he has yet to be beaten in three appearances (2-0-1). Cabrera was 1 up through 11 holes, but a birdie at the 12th gave him some breathing room, then he went 3 up with a birdie at the par-3 14th. Furyk then bogeyed the 15th to end the match. |
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