President’s Cup: Internationals maintain three-point lead after resisting United States fightback

The International workforce want 5 factors on the ultimate day to safe a primary Presidents Cup in 28 years after holding off a United States fightback on day three in Medinah.

The Internationals had been behind in each match at one stage however will go into Sunday’s singles holding a 10-5-7.5 lead.

The hosts had the higher of the morning session, profitable two and tying one of many four-balls.

But the groups break up the afternoon foursomes, with Canada’s Corey Conners saving par on the 18th to win the ultimate match on the course and protect the Internationals’ three-point lead.

The International workforce have solely gained the President’s Cup as soon as since its inception in 1994 and by no means on American soil.

“We had been down in each match, and to return again and get one and a half factors out of this morning, we felt that was just a little victory as a result of we had been down all over the place,” mentioned workforce captain Geoff Ogilvy.

“This afternoon, the identical factor occurred. Team USA performed so effectively all day. They performed some actually high-level foursomes, particularly this afternoon.

“For the boys to in some way come again and pinch two factors out of that and break up the session was superb.”

Sunday sees 12 singles video games happen, with both sides needing 15.5 factors to seal victory.