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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The U.S. Team has won the 14th Presidents Cup, clinching the title by reaching 15.5 points on Sunday at Quail Hollow Club. PRESIDENTS CUP: Scoring The U.S. improves to 12-1-1 all-time in the biennial competition, remaining undefeated on American soil at 8-0-0. The U.S. Team entered Sunday Singles with an 11-7 advantage over the International Team, and the United States weathered an early opposing surge with consistent play across the lineup. Here’s a match-by-match breakdown of Sunday’s 12 Singles matches at Quail Hollow Club. SUNDAY SINGLES MATCH 19 Si Woo Kim (Intl.) def. Justin Thomas (U.S.), 1-up This first match got tense on the back nine, with the normally stoic Kim showing some fire as he won the 14th (par) and 16th (birdie) holes and “shushed” the partisan crowd with a nice par putt at 15. Thomas, who led most of the match, hit his approach close for birdie at 17 to tie; both players had good birdie looks at 18. Kim putted first and made from 10 feet. Thomas, just inside, missed his putt left. Thomas had a strong week (4-1-0) but fell to 0-3 in Presidents Cup Singles. QUOTES: “I’ve never (felt) like pressure, even when I won THE PLAYERS Championship. It was a really hard match. … My goal was playing 18 holes. I kept the pressure on him.” – Si Woo Kim Score at match’s conclusion: U.S. Team 12, International Team 8 Player records this week: Thomas (4-1-0), Si Woo Kim (3-1-0) MATCH 20 Jordan Spieth (U.S.) def. Cameron Davis (Intl.), 4 and 3 Spieth, the most seasoned U.S. player, came into Sunday having never won in Presidents Cup/Ryder Cup Singles play, holding a record of 0-6-1. He lost his first two holes, but he got going with the putter, birdied Nos. 4 and 5 and was tied after nine. Spieth would run away by winning six of the last seven holes. Not only did he get his Singles victory, but Spieth became only the sixth player in Presidents Cup history to finish 5-0-0. QUOTES: “I had a great back nine … I rattled off three straight birdies (starting at 11) and then just kept trying to hit greens. It feels really good. I was more nervous than I probably should have been today, just because I wanted to get that monkey off my back.” – Jordan Spieth Score at match’s conclusion: U.S. Team 12, International Team 7 Player records this week: Spieth (5-0-0), Davis (2-3-0). MATCH 21 Sam Burns (U.S.) tied Hideki Matsuyama (Intl.) Another close match near the top of the lineup, with Burns, a rookie on the U.S. Team, and Matsuyama, an International Team veteran, heading to the 18th hole tied. Matsuyama hit a drive down the left side that struck a marshal and caromed left into the rough, a terrible break. From 182 yards, he hit his approach just over the green. Burns piped a drive, and hit his approach to 24 feet. Matsuyama’s long curling chip hit the flagstick and stayed out. Burns, playing the 18th hole for the fourth time, watched his birdie putt to win drift off right. Burns played much better on the week than his record would show. QUOTES: “He just blew the lid off this place.” NBC’s Paul Azinger after Burns made birdie from 48 feet at the 10th hole Score at match’s conclusion: U.S. Team 13.5, International Team 8.5 Player records this week: Burns (0-3-2), Matsuyama (1-3-1) MATCH 22 Patrick Cantlay (U.S.) def. Adam Scott (Intl.), 3 and 2 Cantlay came out a determined man after he and partner Xander Schauffele lost their afternoon Four-ball match on Saturday. He birdied the second, third and won the fourth with a par when Scott putted off the green. There was some beautiful golf in this match at times. Scott, the oldest man of the match at 42, stiffed his approach at the ninth with Cantlay’s ball sitting just 2 feet from the hole. Cantlay simply left Scott with few openings in a tactical victory. Score at match’s conclusion: U.S. Team 13, International Team 8 Player records this week: Cantlay (3-1-0), Scott (2-3-0) MATCH 23 Sebastian Munoz (Intl.) def. Scottie Scheffler (U.S.) 2 and 1 Scheffler, the world No. 1, came in fired up after going winless (0-2-1) in three team matches, but he faced a formidable foe. Munoz, from Colombia, was 2-down through seven, but kept punching. He won holes 8-10, then holed a bunker shot for eagle at the short 11th. Scheffler would answer, holing a curling downhill putt from 62 feet to keep from going 2-down. Munoz had a 1-up lead when the players traded birdies at 15 and 16. A poor tee shot by Scheffler at 17 cost him, his bogey clinching the match for Munoz. QUOTES: “It was tough. I really had to focus. It’s probably one of the best things I’ve ever achieved in my life, playing this week, holding him off two times this week. I threw everything at him, and luckily we got the win.” – Sebastian Munoz Score at match’s conclusion: U.S. Team 13.5, International Team 9.5 Player records this week: Scheffler 0-3-1, Munoz 2-0-1 MATCH 24 Tony Finau (U.S.) def. Taylor Pendrith (Intl.), 3 and 1 Finau clinched at least a half-point for the U.S. side when he birdied the 16th hole against the long-hitting Canadian rookie, then secured a full point at the par-4 17th when he made his seventh birdie of the round. Pendrith, winless on the week, led from the sixth hole through the 11th, but did not win a hole after 11. Finau won five of the final nine holes of the match. QUOTE: “I fought as hard as I think I’ve ever fought in a match. We know what’s on the line here this week, and it just adds that little intensity. I needed every bit of it. I played really nicely. I had to if I was going to beat Taylor today.” – Tony Finau Score at match’s conclusion: U.S. Team 14.5, International Team 9.5 Player records this week: Finau (3-1-0), Pendrith (0-4-0). MATCH 25 Xander Schauffele (U.S.) def. Corey Conners (Intl.), 1-up The man who won gold at the 2020 Olympics now owns a clinching point at the Presidents Cup, too. Schauffele was struggling mightily on the back nine, tugging his tee shot into the water at the par-3 14th and then driving his ball into the left-side creek at 15, but he showed lots of fight. He hit an incredible third shot from 218 yards after his drop and saved his 4 at 15 to regain a 1-up lead. Schauffele was 1-up with two to play and cold-shanked his approach at the par-4 17th with Conners sitting on the green in two. Conners, who had a rough week, three-putted to allow Schauffele to tie the hole with bogey. A scrambling par at 18 sealed his 1-up victory and the cup for the U.S.. QUOTES: “This is a really strange feeling. Man, we were struggling out there, and I’m really happy there are no pictures on the scorecard. I had all the boys pulling for me. I knew it was going to be close. Corey just let me in, and I was able to take advantage of it.” – Xander Schauffele Score at match’s conclusion: U.S. Team 15.5, International Team 9.5 Player records this week: Schauffele (3-1-0), Conners (0-4-0) MATCH 26 Sungjae Im (Intl.) def. Cameron Young (U.S.), 1-up Young had a nightmare start. Im came out with three pars and was 3-up on the fourth tee. But Young, one of six U.S. rookies, can go on some incredible stretches of golf, and he worked his way back into the match. When he birdied the par-4 15th, Young owned the lead. Im, an incredible ballstriker, was tough all week, and he would birdie the last two holes – making from 22 feet at 18 – to turn around the deficit and pull out a hard-earned point. Score at match’s conclusion: U.S. Team 15.5, International Team 11.5 Player records this week: Young (1-2-1), Im (2-2-1) MATCH 27 K.H. Lee (Intl.) def. Billy Horschel (U.S.), 3 and 1 In a battle of two Presidents Cup first-timers, the South Korean Lee steadily built a 3-up advantage through 11 holes, and he held off the fiery Florida Gator with just one hole surrendered the rest of the way – Horschel’s birdie at No. 13. Lee two-putted for birdie at the par-5 16th to match Horschel’s up-and-down from a greenside bunker, and the reigning back-to-back AT&T Byron Nelson champion was conceded the match while facing a 21-foot birdie try on No. 17, as Horschel faced 43 feet for par. Score at match’s conclusion: U.S. Team 15.5, International Team 10.5 Player records this week: Lee (2-1-0), Horschel (1-2-0) MATCH 29 Collin Morikawa (U.S.) def. Mito Pereira (Intl.), 3 and 2 Score at match’s conclusion: U.S. Team 16.5, International Team 11.5

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Suddenly thrust into the spotlight after leader Jon Rahm tests positive for COVID-19 and WDs, Patrick Cantlay and Collin Morikawa battle all day before each signing for a 71 to force extra holes. When Cantlay saves par from 12 feet and Morikawa misses from 6, it’s over. Meanwhile, Jimmy Walker cards a final-round 65 to finish T6 for his first top-10 since 2018. Here are five stories you may have missed from the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide. 1. Patrick Cantlay is FedExCup No. 1 After getting guidance from Jack Nicklaus himself, Patrick Cantlay won the Memorial for the first time in 2019. He shot a final-round 64 that day, and afterward said Nicklaus had instructed him to relax and have fun, soak it all in, enjoy the moment with the fans. This time, Cantlay had to scratch out a 1-under 71 and was back to game-face mode. “Yeah, my natural disposition is pretty stoic, and so I’m pretty deadpan a lot, but that’s not necessarily an accurate reflection of how I feel on the inside,” he said. “I do think it’s good advice for me to enjoy it more and really enjoy the moment and show that I am enjoying the moment, and so I try to do a little more of that. “But in general,” he added after his second win this season (ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP @ SHERWOOD), which moved him up to No. 1 in the FedExCup. “I feel most myself when I’m just locked in and really focused and kind of in work mode.” For more on Cantlay, click here. 2. It was opposite day for Collin Morikawa Collin Morikawa is usually one of the PGA TOUR’s most dynamic and reliable ball-strikers from tee to green, but his putting runs hot and cold. That wasn’t the case on Sunday, when he admitted he “couldn’t really hit a green for my life.” Instead, Morikawa had one of the best scrambling days of his life, making more than 109 feet of putts. “I was hitting my shots that I wanted,” he said, “and we were a little off calculating, a little off with just luck, and sometimes that happens, but to get into a playoff to make the putts I needed to make, just to keep myself in it, I’m proud of myself and it’s crazy. It’s crazy what a game it is. “I didn’t feel like I really ever played this game where I’m missing every green, chipping, making 10-footers,” he added. “I like it the other way where I hit it a lot closer.” 3. Scottie Scheffler keeps knocking on door Although he couldn’t fully recover from bogeys at the par-4 sixth and ninth holes, plus a failure to birdie the par-5 11th, Scottie Scheffler, 24, keeps knocking on the door for his first win. After a T8 at the PGA Championship and solo 3rd at the Memorial he will be among the dark horses at the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines South in two weeks. “I feel good about where my game is,” he said after making bogey at Muirfield Village’s tough 18th hole to miss the playoff by two. “Few things I need to clean up, but overall, it was a solid week.” 4. Jimmy Walker feeling better after long slump After starting Sunday in a tie for 38th place, Jimmy Walker, 42, shot the day’s low round, a bogey-free, 7-under 65 to finish T6, seven shots back. It was his first top-10 finish since a T6 at the 2018 AT&T Byron Nelson, and he admitted he had been feeling discouraged. “You got to believe that hard work pays off,” he said. “Sometimes it doesn’t, and it hasn’t been for me, but maybe it’s just taken longer than I would have liked. And today was definitely a step. “It really shows a lot of maybe light at the end of the tunnel,” Walker continued, “especially for a place that I never played well at.” 5. Rickie Fowler rolling heading into U.S. Open sectional With a T8 at the PGA Championship and a final-round 70 and T11 at the Memorial, Rickie Fowler is finally seeing some results from his rebuilt game under John Tillery. He’d have fared even better at Jack’s place were it not for a third-round 75. “Heading the right way,” Fowler said. He’s even starting to putt better, at long last. Now he’ll head into the 36-hole U.S. Open sectional on Monday with hopes of making into the field at Torrey Pines South next week. “Just go get some good food tonight, get some good sleep, rest up,” he said. “It will be a long day. Hopefully we can dodge some rain and storms in the afternoon.” COMCAST BUSINESS TOUR TOP 10 The Comcast Business TOUR TOP 10 highlights and rewards the extraordinary level of play required to earn a spot in the TOP 10 at the conclusion of the FedExCup regular season. The competition will conclude prior to the FedExCup PLAYOFFS where the top 10 FedExCup points leaders will be recognized and awarded as the most elite in golf. Week after week, shot after shot, each event matters more than ever before. Who will finish in the Comcast Business TOUR TOP 10? Click here to follow the weekly action.

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