U.S. leads by four points going into Presidents Cup singles round
With a four-point deficit, the International team will need a comeback of the same proportions as the historic rally made by the U.S. in the 1999 Ryder Cup to win the 2011 Presidents Cup.
Going into Sunday’s 12 singles matches, the U.S. leads 13-9. In the 1999 Ryder Cup, the U.S. trailed 10-6 before winning 14 ½ – 13 ½. In eight Presidents Cups, the U.S. has lost the singles round just once. That came in 2007, when it entered the final round with a seven-point lead and won 19 ½ – 14 ½ overall.
The only time in Presidents Cup history that a team lost a lead heading into the singles was 2003 in South Africa when the U.S. rallied from a 12 1/2 – 9 1/2 deficit to tie the Internationals, 17-17.
The U.S. is showing no signs of collapsing in this Presidents Cup. Webb Simpson (3-1) and Bubba Watson (3-1) lost their first match of this competition, to Robert Allenby and Geoff Ogilvy. But Jim Furyk (4-0) continued to roll, this time with a new partner, Nick Watney (1-1-1), as captain Fred Couples rested Phil Mickelson (3-0). Hunter Mahan (3-1), playing for the first time with Bill Hass (1-2-1), rolled in a 30-footer to close out their match with Aaron Baddeley (1-2-1) and Jason Day (1-2-1).
Tiger Woods (1-3) and Dustin Johnson (1-2-1) were beaten in the four-ball, 2 and 1, by Koreans Y.E. Yang (1-2) and K.T. Kim (1-2), who rested in the morning.
