MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) — Capsules of the foursomes matches Friday at the Presidents Cup:
Corey Conners and Nick Taylor, International, def. Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns, United States, 1 up
The opening foursomes match had the feel of one that was going the distance when the Canadians twice responded to early deficits.
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Canadians → def → deficits
The Internationals took their first lead when Taylor clipped a beautiful pitch over the bunker to 4 feet on the par-5 sixth.
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Taylor → take → par-5
The Americans squared the match on the 10th, the only hole won with a par.
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Americans → square → par
The Internationals went 1 up when Conners hit wedge to 5 feet for birdie on No. 12.
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Conners → go → .
It came down to the 18th and it looked like the Americans would escape with a halve when Taylor drove into the trees and Conners hit back to the fairway.
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Conners → come → fairway
Taylor hit 9-iron from 151 yards to a foot to secure par, and Burns’ birdie attempt lipped out.
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attempt → hit → par
Hideki Matsuyama and Sungjae Im, International, def. Russell Henley and Jacob Bridgeman, United States, 3 and 2
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Matsuyama → def → Henley
Bridgeman made his Presidents Cup debut by rolling in a 7-foot birdie putt for an early lead.
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Bridgeman → make → lead
The Internationals won the next four holes, including the fourth with a par when Henley missed a 6-foot putt.
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Henley → win → putt
The Internationals gave away the 10th and 11th holes with poor tee shots that led to bogeys, and their lead was only 1 up.
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lead → give → bogeys
But Matsuyama made a 20-foot birdie putt on the 12th to go 2 up, and he closed out the match on the par-3 16th when he made a 20-foot par putt and Bridgeman missed a 6-foot par putt.
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Bridgeman → make → putt
Ryan Fox and Min Woo Lee, International, def. Collin Morikawa and Wyndham Clark, United States, 1 up
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Fox → def → Morikawa
The opening five holes were halved until Fox made an 18-foot birdie on the sixth for the Internationals’ first lead.
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Fox → halve → lead
The Americans tied it two holes later and took the lead on the 12th when Clark made a 12-foot birdie putt.
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Clark → tie → putt
The Americans were 1 up with four holes to play when Fox made birdie putts from 15 feet on the 15th and 20 feet on the par-3 16th.
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Fox → play → 16th
Morikawa missed a 5-foot birdie putt on the 17th that would have squared the match, and Morikawa put his approach in the bunker to take away a birdie chance they needed for a half.
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they → miss → half
Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Adam Scott, International, def. Justin Thomas and Cameron Young, United States, 3 and 2
Scott broke the Presidents Cup record by playing in his 56th match, one more than Phil Mickelson.
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Scott → def → Mickelson
And then the Australian delivered on the greens, winning the third hole with a 30-foot birdie putt, the fourth with a 5-foot birdie putt and the seventh with a 45-foot birdie putt.
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Australian → deliver → putt
They closed out the front nine when the South African hit his tee shot to 3 feet on the par-3 ninth.
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African → close → par-3
The only birdie on the U.S. card was conceded after Bezuidenhout ended the match with a 30-foot birdie.
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Bezuidenhout → concede → birdie
Tom Kim and Si Woo Kim, International, def. Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay, United States, 4 and 3
Even though the Internationals never trailed, this match stayed close until Si Woo Kim made a 25-foot birdie putt on the par-3 ninth to go 2 up.
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Kim → def → ninth
By then, the scorecard was filled with gold as the Internationals led every match.
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Internationals → fill → match
The first four holes on the back nine were halved with par, and the Americans found themselves in a big hole on the 14th when Schauffele couldn’t get a shot out of the bunker and they made bogey to fall 3 down.
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they → halve → bogey
Tom Kim missed a 6-foot birdie putt on the 15th that would ended it.
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that → miss → it
Schauffele followed by missing a 3-footer for par.
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Schauffele → follow → par
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