Four players went undefeated and six failed to earn a win at the 2022 Presidents Cup.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The United States held off a charging International squad to claim the 2022 Presidents Cup, 17½-12½, and extend its win streak to nine events dating to 2005.
In the event’s 28-year history, the Americans have dominated to the tune of a 12-1-1 record, losing in 1998 at Royal Melbourne in Australia and tying in 2003 at Fancourt Hotel and Country Club in South Africa.
Speaking of impressive records, Jordan Spieth made his pitch to be the new Captain America with an impressive 5-0-0 showing this week at Quail Hollow Club, with rookie Max Homa just behind him at 4-0-0 after sitting out Saturday afternoon’s four-ball session. On the other side, rookies Sebastian Munoz (2-0-1) and Christiaan Bezuidenhout (1-0-1) were the lone unbeaten players for the Internationals.
Three players went winless for each team, but only two failed to earn a point, and they’re both from Canada, who will play host in 2024 when the event heads to Royal Montreal Golf Club in Montreal.
Here’s a breakdown of how each player fared this week by event at the 2022 Presidents Cup.
Breaking down the final matches of the 2022 Presidents Cup.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Internationals made things interesting midway through Sunday’s final round of singles matches at the 2022 Presidents Cup, but in the end, it was the United States who came out on top.
Xander Schauffele clinched the winning point point for the Americans at Quail Hollow Club, defeating Corey Conners, 1 up, to seal the deal and earn the U.S. its ninth consecutive win in the biennial bout against the worldwide all-stars. The Internationals have won just once back in 1998 and earned a tie in 2003. The U.S. have won the other 11 competitions, six by four or more points.
Here’s a breakdown of each of the 12 Sunday singles matches at the 2022 Presidents Cup.
Sunday singles results
Si Woo Kim (Intl.) def. Justin Thomas (U.S.), 1 up
Si Woo Kim shushed the crowd, with his finger and with a clutch birdie putt at 18 to edge Justin Thomas 1 up.
“ It’s really special for me because I play with J.T. a match like three years ago,” said Kim, noting he was beaten on the 13th hole. “I was a little emotional. But this time, I (got) revenge.”
Thomas made birdies on two of the first four holes, clenching his fist after canning the putt at No. 4 and exclaiming, “Let’s go!”
But Kim battled back, rallying on the back nine with birdies at Nos. 10 and 11 to tie the match. Thomas regained the lead at the 12th but gave it back with a bogey at 14. Kim fired up the crowd when he shushed them at 15.
“J.T. give me fist pump, and then I had to do it. And I had to make it, and I made it,” Kim said of his putt to tie the hole. “Then, like, yeah, I had to do something. I think that give me more energy.”
Kim backed up his gesture by taking his first lead of the day with a birdie at 16. Thomas responded with a 4-foot birdie at 17 to send it to the final hole deadlocked.
Both Thomas and Kim hit their approaches to 10 feet. Kim putted first and canned it; Thomas missed on the low side. He dropped to 0-3 in singles in the Presidents Cup. — Schupak
International Team golfer Si Woo Kim (right) shushes the crowd during Sunday singles at the 2022 Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow Club. (Photo: Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports)
Jordan Spieth (U.S.) def. Cam Davis (Intl.), 4 and 3
Jordan Spieth is winless in singles no more. The American rallied from a 2-down deficit through three holes to defeat Cam Davis, 4 and 3.
“I was more nervous than I probably should have been today just because I want to get that monkey off my back,” Spieth said.
Playing in his fourth Presidents Cup, Spieth hadn’t won in six combined singles matches between the Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup.
“I had a great back nine,” said Spieth, who rattled off three straight birdies beginning at No. 11 to take control of the match. “When you go out early as I’ve done pretty much every team event on a Sunday, they’re looking for red on the board, and it feels good to finally provide that.”
It capped off a phenomenal week for Spieth, who had a perfect record of 5-0-0 and became the first player to do so since South Africa’s Branden Grace in 2015.
“He putted great,” Davis said of Spieth. “He kept his momentum early when he wasn’t playing great, and then I think he got a little comfortable when I started missing a few shots.” — Schupak
Team USA golfer Jordan Spieth lines up his chip shot on the second hole during the singles match play of the Presidents Cup golf tournament at Quail Hollow Club. (Photo: Peter Casey-USA TODAY Sports)
Hideki Matsuyama (Intl.) ties Sam Burns (U.S.)
American Sam Burns and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama dueled to a tie and a half point for each side.
Matsuyama took the early lead with a birdie at the second and stretched the lead to 2 up at the turn. That’s when Burns flipped the match in his favor, making three straight birdies beginning at No. 10 to assume the lead. Burns, however, made a double bogey at 15 to gift-wrap that hole to Matsuyama and the match was tied once more.
Matsuyama nearly stole a full point when his birdie chip at 18 crashed into the flagstick but didn’t drop. Burns had a chance for the win but missed his 23-foot birdie putt.
Burns had a record of 0-2-2 while Matsuyama went 1-3-1. — Schupak
Patrick Cantlay (U.S.) def. Adam Scott (Intl.), 3 and 2
Patrick Cantlay wasn’t going to lose twice in a row, and it showed early in his singles match against the veteran Adam Scott. The American held at least a 2-up lead from the third hole and on and put Scott to bed on the 16th hole, 3 and 2.
Scott won just two holes on Sunday and made more bogeys than birdies to bookend a week to forget that saw him go 2-3-0 in his record 10th appearance in the event. — Woodard
Sebastian Munoz (Intl.) def. Scottie Scheffler (U.S.), 2 and 1
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler held the advantage for most of the front nine before a three-hole swing on Nos. 8-10 saw Sebastian Munoz take control.
Both players drove the green and made eagle on the 325-yard par-4 11th and they also matched each other’s birdie-bogey-par efforts on holes 12-14 before Munoz pulled ahead, 2 up, with birdie on the 15th. Scheffler got one back when Munoz left the door open with bogey on the 16th, but ended the match on the next hole, 2 and 1, after a Scheffler concession.
In his Presidents Cup debut, the reigning Masters champion failed to win a match and went 0-3-1 while Munoz was an impressive 2-0-1. — Woodard
Tony Finau (U.S.) def. Taylor Pendrith (Intl.), 3 and 1
A real back-and-forth match here saw both players lead for at least six holes, with Tony Finau winning the first two before Pendrith won four of the next five to take a 2-up lead of his own.
Slowly but surely the American climbed back with wins on Nos. 9, 12 and 13 to take a 1-up that he never gave back. Consecutive birdies on Nos. 16 and 17 sealed the deal for the 3-and-1 victory and brought the Americans just one point away from victory. — Woodard
Team USA golfer Tony Finau celebrates making his putt on the first green during the singles match play of the 2022 Presidents Cup at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo: Jim Dedmon-USA TODAY Sports)
Xander Schauffele (U.S.) def. Corey Conners (Intl.), 1 up
The deciding point came from a tightly-contested match between Corey Conners and Xander Schauffele.
Tied through the first five holes, consecutive wins gave Schauffele a 2-up lead that he extended to 3 up before he let Conners back into the fold. Looking for his country’s first point of the week, the Canadian won Nos. 12-14 to square the match before a bogey of his own gave the lead back to Schauffele on 15. The 16th was squared with birdies and Conners failed to take advantage of a Schauffele bogey on the 17th, which sent the match to the 18th, where par was good enough to decide the event. — Woodard
Sungjae Im (Intl.) def. Cameron Young (U.S.), 1 up
Cameron Young never led his match against Sungjae Im, who won the first three holes with par. Then it was Young’s turn as the young American claimed three of the next five to square the match just before the turn.
The pair went shot-for-shot aside from an Im birdie on the 12th, where he briefly took a 1-up lead before giving it up two holes later after a bogey on No. 15. A Young three-putt on the 17th gave the lead back to Im, which he turned into a 1-up win. — Woodard
K.H. Lee (Intl.) def. Billy Horschel (U.S.), 3 and 1
Billy Horschel’s national team debut didn’t quite go as planned as the 35-year-old went just 1-2-0 after a 3-and-1 loss to K.H. Lee. The South Korean was in control from the jump, winning the first two holes to take a lead that he never relinquished.
In fact, Horschel won just three holes and got as close as 1-down, but this one was never in doubt. — Woodard
Max Homa (U.S.) def. Tom Kim (Intl.), 1 up
Have a debut, Max Homa. The fan-favorite went undefeated at Quail Hollow and had to come back against one of the best players this week, 20-year-old South Korean rising star Tom Kim.
Kim got all the way to 3 up around the turn before Homa caught absolute fire on No. 12, winning four consecutive holes to flip the match by taking advantage of multiple missteps from Kim. Homa never gave it back and ended the week a perfect 4-0-0.
“Best week of golf I could ever imagine. It was very special just to be on this team and to contribute and to bond with the guys,” said Homa. “Some of the moments we’ve had together on the golf course and in the team room have been amazing. I feel very, very, very lucky to be on this team.”
— Woodard
Collin Morikawa (U.S.) def. Mito Pereira (Intl.), 3 and 2
Mito Pereira won just one hole in his match against Collin Morikawa, but it came just a little too late. The pair were tied through four holes before Morikawa made birdie on the par-4 5th, followed by an eagle on the par-5 7th and another birdie on the par-4 8th to take a 3-up lead to the back.
The two-time major champion then went 4 up with a birdie on the 10th before Pereira’s lone win on the 11th. The next five holes were tied as Morikawa did just what he needed to do to put yet another point on the board for the U.S.
“I haven’t won in a while. And just to kind of feel those nerves and kind of feel that energy, it was so exciting,” said Morikawa. “Those are the things we live for. I think every single one of us here on both teams loves that position that you’re in when you’re coming down the stretch or you need to make a putt to win a hole.”
Christiaan Bezuidenhout (Intl.) def. Kevin Kisner (U.S.), 2 and 1
Christiaan Bezuidenhout never let Kevin Kisner lead in this final match that didn’t see a birdie until the 6th hole (and only four more after that). Every time the American was able to square the match, Bezuidenhout was right there to respond and re-claim the lead.
Down the stretch the South African was nails, making birdie on Nos. 14 and 16 to take a 2-up lead which he carried to a 2-and-1 win. — Woodard
High expectations for the Crimson Tide in 2022, and this Bowl game projection shows how far Alabama is expected to go.
Alabama football had what some Crimson Tide fans would call a down year, all because of a regular season loss and a team that didn’t necessarily feel as dominant as it has in recent years. At the end of the 2021 season, Alabama finished with a loss in the national championship game to Georgia. A feat most programs would still consider a win.
With plenty of talent returning in 2022, there are plenty of reasons for Alabama fans to be excited.
College Football News recently shared bowl game predictions for the upcoming season and had the Crimson Tide in an interesting position when the postseason rolls around.
A contest between two truly historic college football programs in a playoff game. College Football News predicts Lincoln Riley to have plenty of success with the Trojans in his first year with the program after leaving Oklahoma.
Riley’s luck runs out there, however, as Alabama is expected to win and move on to the national championship game in Los Angeles. Their projected opponent? Ohio State. A rematch of the 2020 national championship game.
Both the men’s and women’s USA Basketball teams have made coaching changes.
It’s been a surprisingly eventful week for USA Basketball.
On the heels of two gold medals during the Tokyo Olympics, USA Basketball’s 5v5 teams are introducing new leadership.
News broke on Tuesday that four-time WNBA champion head coach Cheryl Reeve will be Dawn Staley’s successor as coach of the USWNT. And just days later, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski took to Twitter to announce the finalizing of three-time NBA champion head coach Stever Kerr taking over men’s national team duties from Gregg Popovich.
Both Kerr and Reeve served as assistant coaches for their respective gold medal-winning USA teams at the most recent Olympic games, making the transition into their new positions potentially seamless.
Reeve, arguably the WNBA’s all-time greatest coach, will be stepping into one of the most prestigious coaching jobs in all of basketball. The women’s Olympic team are winners of 55 straight games dating back to 1992 and have earned seven straight gold medals in that time.
Steve Kerr will inherit a challenge of his own. While it’s debatable whether or not the rest of the world has “caught up” with the U.S. from a basketball standpoint, they’ve certainly crept closer. The USMNT has won the past four Olympic golds but has struggled during other FIBA Basketball World Cups.
USA Basketball is finalizing a decision to name Steve Kerr as the next national coach with an assistant coaching staff that will include Monty Williams, Erik Spoelstra and Mark Few, sources tell ESPN. A formal announcement is expected in the near future.
Just don’t expect either of USA’s new coaches to fall short of expectations. As mentioned previously, Reeve is a four-time champion as a head coach, while Kerr (+300 COTY odds at Tipico) has won three as the Warriors’ lead guy and currently has them playing their best basketball in years.
The future of USA Basketball is in good hands.
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With Joe Biden speaking tonight the Notre Dame vs. Clemson game is switching channels for part of the evening. Find new viewing details
If you’re not already aware, Joe Biden has won the 2020 Presidential election. You might be wondering what that has to do with Notre Dame and Clemson’s showdown in South Bend tonight, but I promise there is good reason to connect this and you’ll thank me for the information shortly.
Biden is scheduled to address the nation tonight for the first time as the President-Elect.
As a result, NBC will drop out of coverage of the No. 1 Clemson vs. No. 4 Notre Dame game to carry his address.
During that time, the game will switch to being shown on USA Network, just as the South Florida game was back in September.
Once Biden is done with his speech, NBC will return to covering the game on network television.
BREAKING: The Notre Dame – Clemson game will move to the USA Network once Joe Biden starts his press conference.
USA will begin simulcasting the game at 7:55 PM.
NBC will not leave the game until Biden steps to the podium.
Notre Dame dominated South Florida 52-0 on Saturday. Here are five quick takeaways from the blowout victory that moved the Irish to 2-0.
Perhaps it was last week’s slow start against Duke and maybe some of it had to do with what happened against South Florida back in 2011 but it didn’t feel like there was a ton of confidence in the ability of the Irish to entirely dominate going into Saturday’s game.
Then kickoff happened and Notre Dame dominated in every part of the game for the next 60 minutes in their — obliteration of South Florida that puts the Irish at 2-0 for the third straight season.
It wasn’t the most compelling of games as the only thing all that interesting in the final two frames was if Notre Dame could keep the shutout in tact.
With that said here are five takeaways from the victory.
Inside em, outside em…through them, over them, whatever you wanted to do to them….
Who will be back and who remains out for Notre Dame this Saturday versus South Florida?
When Notre Dame suits up to host South Florida on Saturday we know they’ll officially be without graduate-transfer Ben Skowronek on the receiver depth chart as Brian Kelly officially ruled him out during media availability on Thursday.
Skowronek is nursing a hamstring injury he sustained in the season-opening win over Duke and won’t be available Saturday according to Kelly.
Kelly also gave the latest on star safety Kyle Hamilton, who he called day-to-day. Kelly said that Hamilton is in a PPT program (Prayers and Personal Thoughts) after suffering an ankle injury against Duke that looked a lot more severe than it seems to have wound up being.
Other injury news for the Fighting Irish featured speedster Braden Lenzy who had a hamstring flare up and keep him out against Duke. Kelly stated that Lenzy “looked good after practice”.
And finally wide receiver Kevin Austin who broke his foot early in training camp has progressed far enough to be out of a boot. His six week scan showed “good signs” he’s now starting to run. No estimate on a return to game action was given.
Notre Dame kicks off their second game of the season against South Florida at 2:30 p.m. ET Saturday and will showed on USA as NBC will be showing coverage of the third round of the US Open.
Nick Saban has once again made a donation to an important cause, this time it was to the Alabama Space & Rocket Center fundraiser.
Alabama head coach Nick Saban has once again made a donation to an important cause, this time it was to the Alabama Space & Rocket Center fundraiser.
According to reports, on the day that US Space and Rocker center passed their $1.5 million goal, Nick Saban and his wife Terry Saban made an undisclosed donation, according to the fundraiser’s GoFundMe page.
“The contribution was made about midday Tuesday, hours before the rocket center announced it had received a $250,000 donation from technology company SAIC.”
The best part?
The Saban’s kept the amount of their donation private.
Their donation is listed as “Nick & Terry Saban, Nick’s Kids Foundation,” but they left the public amount of contribution private.
Nick’s Kids Foundation has donated to many charities. This is what the website has to say:
“Thanks to the generosity of donors and the efforts of Nick and Terry Saban, Nick’s Kids Foundation has distributed over $9 million to hundreds of deserving organizations and causes. Nick’s Kids has completed projects including the career tech classrooms at the Tuscaloosa County Juvenile Detention Center, the Tuscaloosa Riverwalk Playground, renovating the STTEP Building of Brewer Porch Children’s Center, building 17 Habitat for Humanity homes and the Alberta School of Performing Arts playground. Nick’s Kids is also a major donor of the Tuscaloosa All-Inclusive Playground, the Saban Center, and the YMCA of Tuscaloosa.”
This donation is great news for the Space and Rocket center which shared its desperate need for donations due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Today, we are celebrating your commitment to #SaveSpaceCamp! In just seven days, you've helped raise $1.5 million to ensure that we will open Space Camp again in the Spring. Now let’s make sure it continues to thrive for generations to come. https://t.co/ioeCupqT5cpic.twitter.com/UIi2Ajvphs
Nick Saban has proven himself to be a very generous man over the years, and has continued to use him influence and platform for good in many different areas.
The Space and Rocket center is a HUGE tourist attraction for the state. Not only do they create a lot of revenue in the state, they also provide jobs, and host students all over the country.
Chiefs Wire contributor Ed Easton Jr spoke with Andersen about the Chiefs vs. Giants game following September 11.
Pro Football Hall of Fame placekicker Morten Andersen has experienced many unique situations during the course of his legendary career. During his 25-year career in the National Football League, which included a two-year stint with the Kansas City Chiefs, Andersen became the all-time points scorer in league history.
Chiefs Wire contributor Ed Easton Jr spoke with Andersen via NJ Online Gambling about a unique game in his illustrious career, prior to joining the Chiefs. The game took place at Arrowhead Stadium during the 2001 season, following 9/11, while Andersen was playing for the New York Giants.
”We didn’t play football after 9/11,” said Andersen, ”We played the following week, and we [Giants] had to go to Arrowhead to play the Chiefs. And it’s the only game in 25 years where I was on the visiting side where the home fans gave the visiting team a standing ovation. So imagine as you’re running into Arrowhead Stadium, 80,000 Chiefs fans stood up and for like, minutes, you know, and applauded. It was, whew, it was very powerful, man.”
The NFL paused for a week following the September 11 terrorist attacks, and the Giants coming from New York, which had suffered the brunt of the attacks, were honored by the Arrowhead Stadium faithful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Ob_rtvX3E
”We experienced 911. We had played Denver on Monday night and came back that morning at 6am. And then all hell broke loose around nine o’clock in Manhattan, the Pentagon. I was told later our United flight was parked next to flight 93 that went down in Pennsylvania. So we landed and that plane was, you know, sitting there ready to leave. And yeah, in New Jersey Newark Airport.”
Andersen’s Giants would leave Kansas City victorious that day, but the impact left by the Arrowhead crowd was a lasting memory. He would join the Chiefs the following season and serve as the placekicker until 2003.
”To best describe Chiefs fans would be that game,” said Andersen, ”And then, of course, being on the home side, it was fantastic and driving. When you drove to the game, I lived in Mission Hills, which was about a 20-minute drive to the stadium. Just surface roads and I just took my time from the plaza and there out to the stadium, and you could see, from quite a ways out see smoke, and you go, Oh, yeah, that’s Arrowhead, and you start smelling the barbecue, And then as you got closer, there would be like a gauntlet of fans welcoming you through, all the way up to the stadium.”
Andersen appreciated the supportive patriotic spirit of the Chiefs Kingdom following 9/11. He’d eventually learn whether he was on the home sideline or the opposing sideline, the crowd of fans at Arrowhead are among the best.
