People Xander Schauffele and Tony Finau will battle the worldwide duo of Jason Day and An Byeong-hun within the first of 5 fourball matches within the opening session of the Presidents Cup on Thursday in Montreal.
It has been a breakthrough season for Southern California’s Schauffele, who triumphed at this 12 months’s PGA Championship and British Open and is ranked a career-best second on the earth.
Australia’s Day in the meantime is keen to enhance on his disappointing 5-11-4 report throughout 4 prior Presidents Cup appearances and can look to get a carry from the big-hitting South Korean An.
U.S. captain Jim Furyk chosen Collin Morikawa and Sahith Theegala for the second match and Worldwide Group captain Mike Weir countered with a pair of Australians in Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee.
World primary Scottie Scheffler and fellow American Russell Henley will face the South Korean duo of Im Sung-jae and Tom Kim within the third match of the day.
Canadian Taylor Pendrith will little question obtain an enthusiastic welcome from the galleries at Royal Montreal Golf Membership when he and South Africa’s Christiaan Bezuidenhout tackle Wyndham Clark and Keegan Bradley within the fourth match.
The primary day of the three-day competitors will conclude with Patrick Cantlay and Sam Burns battling Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama and Canada’s Corey Conners.
The U.S. has dominated the biennial competitors behind a 12-1-1 report and are as soon as once more the heavy favourites regardless of going up towards a extra skilled Worldwide Group.
The Internationals are returning eight gamers from their 2022 squad to the 12-player roster within the hope of ending a Presidents Cup drought that stretches again to their lone victory at Royal Melbourne in 1998.
The U.S. has seen extra turnover however boasts 5 of the highest 10 gamers on the earth and all 12 members are ranked inside the highest 25 whereas the Worldwide Group’s highest ranked participant is world quantity seven Matsuyama.