{"id":35603,"date":"2026-09-29T11:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/united-states-complete-thrilling-comeback-to-retain-presidents-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:36:22","slug":"united-states-complete-thrilling-comeback-to-retain-presidents-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/united-states-complete-thrilling-comeback-to-retain-presidents-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"United States complete thrilling comeback to retain Presidents Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The United States completed a thrilling comeback on the final day to beat the Internationals and win an 11th successive Presidents Cup.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts, containing eight of the world&#8217;s 11 top-ranked players, trailed by three points going into Sunday and were looking to avoid just a second defeat since the biennial competition began 32 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They dominated the singles, winning nine of the 12 matches, to seal a 17-13 win at Medinah &#8211; the scene of Team Europe&#8217;s famous Ryder Cup comeback win in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jacob Bridgeman secured the decisive point by holing a four-foot par putt at the 18th to seal a one-up win over Australia&#8217;s Min Woo Lee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were also wins for Cameron Young, Justin Thomas, Scottie Scheffler, Chris Gotterup, Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele and Jackson Koivun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I told the guys last night that funny stuff happens here. Medinah&#8217;s got a history of funny things happening,&#8221; said US captain Brandt Snedeker, who was a member of the team beaten by Europe in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All these guys fought for each other, fought for this country, fought for this team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">International captain Geoff Ogilvy said: &#8220;The US team came out firing, we knew they would. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was on a knife edge all day. If some of those one downs we had out there had flipped to one up, the numbers looked really good and who knows what momentum that could give.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US President Donald Trump was in attendance in his role as honorary chairman, greeting the players and making a speech before the matches got under way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/articles\/cr5yeng66de5o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States completed a thrilling comeback on the final day to beat the Internationals and win an 11th successive Presidents Cup. The hosts, containing eight of the world&#8217;s 11 top-ranked players, trailed by three points going into Sunday and were looking to avoid just a second defeat since the biennial competition began 32 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35605,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35603\/revisions\/35605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}