2026 Presidents Cup - Friday

That last hole of Canadians vs. The Fuzz is why we love match play.

• Taylor blocks his drive way right

• Burns rips it up the left side

• Conners pitches out, maybe too conservatively, leaving Taylor a slightly longer approach than Scheffler's

• Taylor stuffs it to gimme range

• Scheffler hits a good one to 18 feet, giving Burns a putt to win the hole and tie the match

• Burns's putt lips out 180 degrees

And that ended up being the hole that gave the Internationals the foursomes sweep. One terrible shot, one mediocre shot, and an outrageously great approach vs. three very good shots that just didn't yield a birdie.

🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹

No disrespect but Snedeker looking despondent in a Bears hat as he watches his team get swept is a very funny visual. Nightmare day for him today

"I promise you, these guys do not want to get swept."

That's it, I'm starting a Notah Begay tracker.

Morikawa generated more club head speed on the putter slam than he does with his driver. 😳

Feeling distinctly Ryder Cuppy out there

Quick view of how OCM rerouted the par 3s around Lake Kadijah. The renovation added a lot more variety and interest to these holes. 13 (the one traveling diagonally over the water) has been especially fun to watch today.

Here's what Ash Mead said about the changes in my recent Q&A with him:

"It was really trying to break up that run of 2, 13, and 17 — just those par 3s across the water, same sort of distance, and not set on angles, really.

"For us, it was important to get those greens on angles as much as we could. I mean, good players know their numbers perfectly. They can get across the water and put it in the middle of the green. But if you can get the green on an angle, now they’ve really got to take it on if they want to attack the flag."

The tee is back on 12 today, making it a two-shot hole. Also, the pin is front-right.

I don't mind the tee being back, but when it is, I kinda prefer a back-left pin. This makes bailing away from the water on the tee shot undesirable, and gives a distinct advantage to those who take a risk off the tee and are able to attack the left-to-right sloping green from the right side of the fairway (see safe yellow and risky red lines below). A front-right pin flattens this dynamic a bit. E.g., earlier we saw Corey Conners get pretty close from the far left edge of the corridor.

Maybe we'll see the back-tee/left-pin combo later in the week.

Broadcast needs to rollback calls for "must-make" putts

12 is a completely different golf hole today.

Circle back on that short miss from Min Woo on 7 if the Internationals don’t pull this match out. Feels like they had Wyndham and Collin on tilt a bit.

You know there's a lot of golf left to be played this weekend and before Adare Manor, but for the #gamblingcommunity out there, boy does Europe (-136) look tasty

A few fans tried to get a “51st” chant going as the Canadian duo of Corey Conners and Nick Taylor walked by. It didn’t catch on.

Or work, either.

Canadians take the 6th hole to go 1-up on Scheffler-Burns. Feels like an important match for Scheffler to turn around.

Fence content has landed ⛽️

It’s early and a small sample size, but I’m happy to get out in front and say that the fans seem to be more enthused on this Friday afternoon. Bigger roars already today than anything that happened on Thursday.

I was curious how foursomes pressure would affect tee shots on the OB holes, but man, some of these approach shots have been atrocious! Leaky fades, double crosses, the full menu.

Notah Begay on Wyndham Clark and Collin Morikawa, who have never played alternate shot together: "I think this is the strongest foursomes pairing on the U.S. side."

I know they haven't been great but Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele have lost (checks notes) ONCE in Presidents Cup alt shot and literally play together in two groups.

Good for Brian Campbell getting a P Cup TV ad spot

I'm interested to see whether tee shots off the first three holes are a little nervier today. The combination of the low-margin-for-error foursomes format and the out-of-bounds threat might get in these guys' heads a little bit.

You know the broadcast has been on a historically bad run when it's a genuine shock and pleasant surprise that a commercial wasn't shoved between the 2 p.m. coverage start time and 2:05 p.m. first match.

Really fun exercise from Galloway on what a Mixed Team Presidents Cup would look like ⬇️

https://www.thefriedegg.com/articles/usa-internationals-mixed-team-presidents-cup

Getting the conversation going early today because I'm fired up for some alternate shot. The Americans took an early lead after Thursday’s fourball session and carry a 3-2 advantage entering Friday foursomes. Here are today’s five matches (with each player's Presidents Cup foursomes record).

2:05 p.m. ET: Scottie Scheffler (1-3-0)/Sam Burns (1-2-0) vs. Corey Conners (1-3-0)/Nick Taylor (0-0-0)

2:19 p.m. ET: Russell Henley (1-1-0)/Jacob Bridgeman (0-0-0) vs. Sungjae Im(1-4-1)/Hideki Matsuyama (3-6-1)

2:33 p.m. ET: Collin Morikawa (2-2-0)/Wyndham Clark (0-1-0) vs. Ryan Fox (0-0-0)/Min Woo Lee (0-0-0)

2:47 p.m. ET: Justin Thomas (4-0-2)/Cameron Young (1-1-0) vs. Christiaan Bezuidenhout (1-0-0)/Adam Scott (10-10-2)

3:01 p.m. ET: Patrick Cantlay (4-1-0)/Xander Schauffele (4-1-0) vs. Tom Kim (1-2-0)/Si Woo Kim (2-3-0)

Sitting: Jackson Koivun, Chris Gotterup, Nico Echavarria, Ryo Hisatsune