USA Defeat Internationals to Clinch the prestigious team Championship golf event
USA Defeat Internationals to Clinch the prestigious team Championship golf event Tiger Woods delivered the clinching point last night as the United States won the eighth Presidents Cup match play golf tournament.
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Captain of the USA Team, Fred Couples (left) congratulates Tiger Woods after he defeated his opponent YE Yang on Day Four of The Presidents Cup at the Harding Park Golf Course last night. pic/AFP |
Woods' 6 and 5 triumph over South Korean Yang Yong-Eun the man who beat Woods for the PGA Championship title gave the Americans an unbeatable lead with 17.5 points.
Woods said he didn't realize his match could be the decisive one.
"I didn't look at any boards," he said. "I saw we were down in six matches at one point, so I just kept my head down and tried to extend my own lead."
The United States brought a three-point lead into the final day and needed just five points from the 12 singles matches to win.
The Internationals needed eight points, and were never up in more than six matches simultaneously.
The Americans won for the sixth time in eight editions of the event, which pits a US team against an Internationals squad drawn from everywhere in the world except Europe.
The only Internationals victory was at Royal Melbourne in 1998 and the teams tied at Fancourt in South Africa in 2003.
Woods completed a perfect 5-0 week at San Francisco's Harding Park Golf Course, joining compatriot Mark O'Meara (1996) and Japan's Shigeki Maruyama (1998) as the only players to go five-of-five in the Presidents Cup.
