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All-Aussie rampage as 20-year hoodoo broken - CtrlF.XYZ

All-Aussie rampage as 20-year hoodoo broken

2 years ago 146

By Damien McCartney and AP

On a time Adam Scott broke a 20-year Presidents Cup hoodoo, helium and Cameron Davis person sparked an International revival astatine Quail Hollow.

In the greeting foursomes (alternate shot), Scott teamed up with Hideki Matsuyama to bushed Cameron Young and Collin Morikawa 3&2, earlier helium and Davis teamed up successful fourball (best ball) to decision Billy Horschel and Sam Burns 1up.

It was the first clip since his Presidents Cup debut successful 2003 that Scott won 2 points successful the aforesaid day.

After 2 days of floggings, the Internationals started time 3 down 8-2, but 2 abstracted Australian rampages saw them triumph the time 5-3. They volition participate the last time afloat of assurance down 11-7 with 14 points connected offer.

In foursomes, Scott and Matsuyama had not won a constituent the opening 2 sessions, and they were headed successful the aforesaid absorption erstwhile the Americans went 2-up done 8 holes.

But the Internationals won the adjacent 5 holes to instrumentality a 3-up lead. The Americans gave distant the ninth and 13th holes with treble bogeys, and Scott and Matsuyama won the different 3 with birdies.

The lucifer ended connected the 16th erstwhile the Americans failed to get up-and-down from a greenside bunker and had to settee for matching pars.

Scott and Davis' matchup against Billy Horschel and Sam Burns was the tightest successful fourballs, with neither squad starring by much than 1up the full way.

The lucifer was tied until Burns made a 12-foot birdie connected the par-3 14th implicit water. But connected the par-5 16th, Davis made a 12-foot eagle putt to quadrate the match.

On the adjacent hole, Davis made a 15-foot birdie putt for the Australian tandem to spell 1up for the archetypal clip successful the match. Burns enactment the unit close connected the Aussies erstwhile helium stuck his attack connected the 18th to 4 feet, portion Scott and Davis each had astir 10 feet for birdie.

Davis drained the putt for an eagle-birdie-birdie decorativeness for a large International win.

“I benignant of went numb, to beryllium honest,” Davis said.

“I was successful a concern wherever I was going for it. But I conscionable got successful a groove that made play consciousness casual for once.”

The Internationals volition instrumentality each the momentum into the last day, wherever they will look to replicate the comeback the European squad made astatine the 2012 Ryder Cup astatine Medinah.

No 1 connected the American squad was astatine Medinah for the 2012 Ryder Cup but for Davis Love III, the skipper astatine both.

The Americans were starring large each week that twelvemonth until captains prime Ian Poulter birdied the past 5 holes connected the Saturday day to springiness Europe a load of momentum that it carried into Sunday.

Trailing 10-6, the Europeans staged the top comeback by a visiting squad successful Ryder Cup history.

“They got immoderate momentum today,” Love said.

“They started making immoderate putts, and we’re going to person to crook astir time and travel retired blistery and effort to get the momentum back.”

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