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2009 Presidents Cup

Golf match in California, US

Golf match in California, US

FieldValue
namePresidents Cup
year2009
venueHarding Park Golf Club
locationSan Francisco, California, U.S.
datesOctober 8–11, 2009
logo2009 Presidents Cup.jpg
homeUSA
awayInternational
homecaptainFred Couples
awaycaptainGreg Norman
homescore19
awayscore14
resultwins

|USA Park GC |USA California Park GC

The 2009 Presidents Cup was held October 8–11, 2009 at the Harding Park Golf Club in San Francisco, California. The United States team won the golf competition by a margin of 19–14, their second consecutive win by that exact score and third in a row overall. This was also the sixth outright win for the U.S. Team in eight meetings, with one International win in 1998 and one tied match in 2003.

Format

The first day of competition featured six foursomes matches. On the second day, six matches of four-ball were played. This was followed on Day 3 by five morning foursomes matches and five afternoon four-ball matches. On the fourth and final day, twelve singles matches were played, for a total of 34 matches in the competition.

The final day was conducted under a special rule that differed slightly from that used in other team competitions such as the Ryder Cup. Singles matches ending halved after the regulation 18 holes were to be extended to extra holes until an outright winner was determined. This format was used until one team earned the 17 points needed to win the Cup outright, at which time all remaining matches were only played to the regulation 18 holes and could be halved.

No matches went to extra holes in the 2009 competition. The first match on the final day in which all 18 holes were played was the Mike Weir–Justin Leonard match, which finished all square after 18. At that time, the U.S. Team was leading 17–10, which meant that the match should have continued. However, at the same time, the Y.E. Yang–Tiger Woods match was at the 13th hole with Woods 5 up. Instead of immediately going to the first hole to continue their match, Weir and Leonard watched the Yang–Woods match on a nearby giant screen. When Woods sank the putt that gave him a 6 and 5 victory and gave the U.S. an insurmountable 18–10 lead, Weir and Leonard, seeing that the outcome of the Cup was no longer in doubt, agreed to halve their match.

Teams

Both teams had 12 players plus a non-playing captain. Members of the U.S. Team were selected based on earnings from the 2007 Wyndham Championship through the 2009 PGA Championship. International Team players were chosen on the basis of the Official World Golf Ranking through the 2009 PGA Championship. The International Team does not include players eligible for the European Ryder Cup Team. The top 10 players from each list made their respective teams and the captains choose the remaining two players.

USA United States teamPlayerAgePoints
rankOWGRPrevious
appearancesMatchesW–L–HWinning
percentage
50Non-playing captain
55Non-playing assistant captain
331152513–11–154.00
392273311–13–946.97
42332105–5–050.00
49463137–6–053.85
33518142–2–050.00
366133138–4–165.38
277140Rookie
398952313–8–260.87
249220Rookie
3710384186–10–238.89
291117152–3–040.00
271325152–3–040.00
International teamPlayerCountryAgePoints
rankOWGRPrevious
appearancesMatchesW–L–HWinning
percentage
54Non-playing captain
49Non-playing assistant captain
32110152–3–040.00
4621573514–15–648.57
273160Rookie
4042142011–7–260.00
3952352513–10–256.00
40628293–3–350.00
3973141911–7–160.53
388324196–11–236.84
{{sortnameYangYong-eunYang Yong-eun}}KOR379300Rookie
3310372104–5–145.00
2914653157–6–253.33
1820430Rookie
  • OWGR as of October 5, 2009, the last ranking before the Cup

Thursday's matches

All matches were foursomes.

InternationalResultsUnited States2Overall3
Clark/Weir3 & 2**Kim/Mickelson**
**Els/Scott**2 & 1Mahan/O'Hair
**Allenby/Singh**1 upCink/Glover
Cabrera/Villegas2 up**Johnson/Perry**
Ishikawa/Ogilvy6 & 4**Stricker/Woods**
Goosen/YanghalvedFuryk/Leonard
2Foursomes3

Friday's matches

All matches were in four-ball format.

InternationalResultsUnited States5Overall6
Goosen/Scott3 & 2**Leonard/Mickelson**
**Els/Weir**2 upFuryk/Kim
**Ishikawa/Yang**4 & 3O'Hair/Perry
**Clark/Singh**1 upCink/Glover
Allenby/Villegas2 & 1**Johnson/Mahan**
Cabrera/Ogilvy5 & 3**Stricker/Woods**
3Four-ball3

Saturday's matches

Morning foursomes

InternationalResultsUnited States7Overall10
Goosen/Villegas5 & 3**Mickelson/O'Hair**
Els/Scott4 & 2**Furyk/Leonard**
Allenby/SinghhalvedCink/Mahan
Clark/Weir1 up**Stricker/Woods**
**Ishikawa/Yang**3 & 2Johnson/Perry
1Foursomes3

Afternoon four-ball

InternationalResultsUnited States9Overall12
Cabrera/Scott2 up**Furyk/Kim**
**Allenby/Ogilvy**2 & 1Cink/Glover
**Els/Weir**5 & 3Johnson/Leonard
Ishikawa/Yang4 & 2**Stricker/Woods**
Clark/SinghhalvedMickelson/O'Hair
2Four-ball2

Sunday's matches

All matches featured were in singles competition.

InternationalResultsUnited States14Overall19
Villegas2 & 1**Mahan**
Scott4 & 3**Cink**
WeirhalvedLeonard
Allenby5 & 3**Kim**
**Ogilvy**2 & 1Stricker
Els6 & 4**O'Hair**
**Ishikawa**2 & 1Perry
**Clark**4 & 3Johnson
Yang6 & 5**Woods**
SinghhalvedGlover
Goosen2 & 1**Mickelson**
**Cabrera**4 & 3Furyk
5Singles7

Individual player records

Each entry refers to the win–loss–half record of the player.

United States

PlayerPointsOverallSinglesFoursomesFourballs
Stewart Cink1.51–3–11–0–00–1–10–2–0
Jim Furyk2.52–2–10–1–01–0–11–1–0
Lucas Glover0.50–3–10–0–10–1–00–2–0
Zach Johnson22–3–00–1–01–1–01–1–0
Anthony Kim33–1–01–0–01–0–01–1–0
Justin Leonard32–1–20–0–11–0–11–1–0
Hunter Mahan2.52–1–11–0–00–1–11–0–0
Phil Mickelson4.54–0–11–0–02–0–01–0–1
Sean O'Hair2.52–2–11–0–01–1–00–1–1
Kenny Perry11–3–00–1–01–1–00–1–0
Steve Stricker44–1–00–1–02–0–02–0–0
Tiger Woods55–0–01–0–02–0–02–0–0

International

PlayerPointsOverallSinglesFoursomesFourballs
Robert Allenby2.52–2–10–1–01–0–11–1–0
Ángel Cabrera11–3–01–0–00–1–00–2–0
Tim Clark2.52–2–11–0–00–2–01–0–1
Ernie Els33–2–00–1–01–1–02–0–0
Retief Goosen0.50–3–10–1–00–1–10–1–0
Ryo Ishikawa33–2–01–0–01–1–01–1–0
Geoff Ogilvy22–2–01–0–00–1–01–1–0
Adam Scott11–4–00–1–01–1–00–2–0
Vijay Singh3.52–0–30–0–11–0–11–0–1
Camilo Villegas00–4–00–1–00–2–00–1–0
Mike Weir2.52–2–10–0–10–2–02–0–0
Yang Yong-eun2.52–2–10–1–01–0–11–1–0

References

  1. (2009-10-11). "Woods wins Presidents Cup for US". BBC Sport.
  2. Sobel, Jason. (2009-10-11). "2009 Presidents Cup: Jason Sobel's Live Analysis". ESPN.
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