MELBOURNE: Tiger Woods' United States produced a stunning turnaround to deny the Internationals a first Presidents Cup in 21 years on Sunday (Dec 15), dominating the singles on a tense final day that went to the wire at Royal Melbourne.
Veteran Matt Kuchar was the hero, with his winning putt on the 17th in the penultimate match enough to ensure victory, sparking wild celebrations from playing-captain Woods, who set the tone by getting the first point on the board.
Webb Simpson beat South Korea's An Byeong-hun to guarantee the US a share of the Cup at 15-12 with three matches still in play. "Even the points we lost, we were making them earn every one of them, and this Cup wasn't going to be given to us. We had to go earn it, and we did." In doing so he passed Phil Mickelson to become the most successful Presidents Cup golfer in history with a 27-15-1 win-loss-tie record to his countryman's 26-16-13."The questions will come that I made mistakes in the selection of where I put my players, but I followed a plan 100 percent, and it didn't quite work out. But we came damn close."
Patrick Reed's caddie was banned after shoving a fan on Saturday as tensions boiled over following the controversial American's penalty for improving his lie in the Bahamas last week.
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