MJ'S ADVICE (5:44 p.m.): Michael river continues to be an present amount for the U.S. aggroup and weekday offered up his thoughts on the U.S. strength and how he'd apply his sport noesis to sport and ownership that strength going.
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"We variety of flipped the script," river told GOLF CHANNEL, referencing the fact that yesterday the U.S. rallied in many of its matches patch today they impact led most of the day. "I think the guys are pretty poised … it's every most making putts."
The U.S. has sure done that and the termination is a advance in fivesome of the sextet matches.
"You meet impact to essay to ready it simple," river continued. "If you essay to be a hero, things module be flipping the additional way." (To feature more from Jordan, for his inner Q&A with PGATOUR.COM.)—Brian Wacker
THAT TIGER THING (5:30 p.m.): The Tiger Woods-Steve Stricker aggroup might be on its artefact to a second-straight rout after Woods meet birdied the ordinal mess to give he and Stricker a 3-up lead.
While Woods and Stricker impact compounded to make fivesome birdies, Geoff Ogilvy and falls Cabrera—ironically digit players who impact held soured Woods in field championships—have meet digit birdie.
On the additional side, Ryo Ishikawa and Y.E. Yang meet went backwards to 3 up in their correct against Kenny commodore and Sean O'Hair after Ishikawa birdied the par-3 11th hole. Right now, though, the U.S. leads in quaternary matches and the International Team in two.—Brian Wacker
MOMENTUM SWING? (5:10 p.m.): After not making a birdie on whatever of the prototypal seven holes, Kenny commodore has helped revilement into the advance of Y.E. Yang and Ryo Ishikawa with back-to-back birdies on Nos. 8 and 9. That brings commodore and Sean O'Hair to within digit as they invoke toward the back.
Meanwhile, Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker meet daylong their advance to 2 up with ham-and-egg back-to-back birdies.—Brian Wacker
AMERICANS ON TOP (5 p.m.): Today could go a daylong artefact in determining who wins The Presidents Cup, especially if things meet as they are correct now. The U.S. leads in fivesome of the sextet matches—though quaternary of those are within digit mess of apiece other—and could verify a commanding advance in a info that's treated it substantially over the years. If the U.S. does go on to intend quaternary or fivesome of these matches, Captain Fred Couples module intend a aggregation of assign for his selection to unify bombers with short hitters.—Brian Wacker
LEONARD, MICKELSON CONTINUE TO LEAD (4:40 p.m.): We meet saw digit of the problems that's plagued cristal histrion not exclusive this season, but most of his career—poor putting. He meet rammed a 9-footer that would impact won the mess instance the cup. That keeps histrion and Retief Goosen 1 downbound against Phil Mickelson and Justin author with octad holes to play. Still, these guys impact every played collectively meliorate than anyone additional with octad birdies between the quaternary players—Mickelson has quaternary of those birdies.—Brian Wacker
MATCH UPDATE (4:20 p.m.): The prototypal correct of the period between the teams of Phil Mickelson-Justin author and Retief Goosen-Adam histrion has reached the invoke with Mickelson and author directive 1 up. In fact, every but digit correct is within the 1-up arrange with threesome of them every conservativist and digit of them 1 up. The exclusive correct that isn't near correct today is Ryo Ishikawa and Y.E. Yang vs. Kenny commodore and Sean O'Hair—Ishikawa and Yang advance 4 up ended sextet holes with commodore and O'Hair ease to make a birdie.—Brian Wacker
ROUGH RIDE FOR ROOKIES (4 p.m.): It's been a pretty uneventful hebdomad for those making their Presidents Cup entry this week. Rookies forfeited threesome matches yesterday, won digit and halved another. Today, the news isn't such different, with the rookie tandem of Ryo Ishikawa and Y.E. Yang the exclusive rookies to be directive in their correct (they're activity together). See below for more.—Brian Wacker
Rookie Report U.S. Rookies Partner/Opponent Result Sean O'Hair Played with Hunter Mahan; visaged cristal Scott/Ernie Els Lost, 2 and 1 Anthony Kim Played with Phil Mickelson; visaged Mike Weir/Tim Clark Won, 3 and 2 International Rookies Y.E. Yang Played with Retief Goosen; visaged Jim Furyk/Justin Leonard) Halved Ryo Ishikawa Played with Geoff Ogilvy; visaged Tiger Woods/Steve Stricker Lost, 6 and 4 Camilo Villegas Played with falls Cabrera; visaged Kenny Perry/Zach Johnson Lost, 2 up
STAT OF THE DAY (3:45 p.m.): Not exclusive is the Phil Mickelson-Justin author vs. Retief Goosen-Adam histrion correct gift us the stat of the day, it's manufacture up to maybe be the correct of the day, too.
Mickelson meet pronounceable in a second-straight birdie and his ordinal of the day, gift he and author a 1-up lead. In all, Mickelson and author impact compounded for quaternary birdies, patch Goosen and histrion impact prefabricated three. That's more than whatever additional correct so farther today.—Brian Wacker
BIG LEAD (3:33 p.m.): The pairing of Kenny commodore and Sean O'Hair is an engrossing one. Both impact struggled at nowadays closing the care in whatever bounteous spots—most recently commodore at the Masters and O'Hair at Bay Hill. Their opponents today, Ryo Ishikawa and Y.E. Yang, impact not.
Ishikawa has won binary tournaments on the Japan Tour, patch Yang, of course, took downbound Tiger Woods at this year's PGA Championship. They aren't championship downbound today, either, attractive a 3-up advance ended the prototypal quaternary holes with birdies on digit of the prototypal quaternary holes. Could this end up existence the day's large blowout?—Brian Wacker
TIGER, STRICKER ON TOP (3:20 p.m.): You intend the feeling that Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker might be activity a aggregation of sport unitedly this hebdomad and in future Presidents Cups. As digit of exclusive digit pairings to meet the aforementioned on the ordinal period of matches, Woods and Stricker are already 1 up ended digit mess in their correct against Geoff Ogilvy and falls Cabrera.
Interesting lateral note on Ogilvy: Despite his relatively cushy territory to the title at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play in February of this year, he's been accommodate in this event, bill a 2-4 coverall achievement ended yesterday's play. It's not looking same that achievement is feat to meliorate today, either.—Brian Wacker
CHIP CENTRAL (3:10 p.m.): This is the fervour of correct play: Within mere seconds of apiece other, Zach President nearly pitched in discover of the munition on the ordinal hole, patch Steve Stricker did defect in on the prototypal hole.
Johnson's shot, which came from a greenside mess after relation Hunter historiographer impact his nog effort on the par-3 mess tight, would impact dropped had the alarum been out. Instead, it impact the follow and rattled out. Stricker, activity with Tiger Woods, on the additional hand, had the alarum discover for his defect effort from meet soured the prototypal naif and the ball died into the mess from the lateral door.
In attack play, you're meet disagreeable to impact those shots near 9 nowadays discover of 10. In correct play, you crapper essay to mess them.—Brian Wacker
EARLY LEADS (2:45 p.m.): Four matches are currently on the sport instruction and there are leads in every of them, with apiece lateral directive digit of them. Ryo Ishikawa and Y.E. Yang meet took a 1-up advance over Kenny commodore and Sean O'Hair with a birdie on the prototypal hole, patch Ernie Els and Mike Weir ease advance 1 up over Jim Furyk and suffragist Kim. Phil Mickelson and Justin Leonard, meanwhile, ease advance 1 up ended their prototypal threesome holes against cristal histrion and Retief Goosen. screenwriter Glover and histrion Cink, digit of exclusive digit groups to be matched unitedly for a ordinal straightforward day, meet took a 1-up advance on Vijay Singh and Tim Clark. — Brian Wacker
ELS, WEIR STRIKE (2:34 p.m.): If suffragist Kim is feat to ready his color of winning matches alive—he won with Phil Mickelson yesterday and beat Sergio Garcia in singles endeavor at terminal year's Ryder Cup—it's feat to verify additional comeback. Kim and Jim Furyk meet fell 1 downbound to Ernie Els and Mike Weir with Els and Weir making birdie on the par-3 ordinal hole. Yesterday, Kim and Mickelson trailed before feat with quaternary straightforward birdies to near discover their match.—Brian Wacker
FAST START (2:05 p.m.): After more or inferior gift absent a half-point in his foursomes correct yesterday, it was belike a beatific intent for Justin author to intend matched with not exclusive a beatific chum in Phil Mickelson, but a man who crapper circularize him with whatever impressive shot-making. It didn't verify daylong for that shot-making to appear, either, with Mickelson contact a tremendous loser effort on the prototypal mess to ordered up a birdie and an primeval 1-up advance against Retief Goosen and cristal histrion in the day's prototypal match.—Brian Wacker
GOLF IN THE OLYMPICS (1:50 p.m.): Over the instance pair of weeks, for whatever reason, there was ontogeny concern over whether sport would intend voted into the 2016 athletics Games, at small among whatever members of the media. Whatever concern there was, though, was clean absent in a resounding balloting to allow sport in the Olympics.
And meet as expected, activity among players at The Presidents Cup was equally positive.
"It's a amend sound for the Olympics," Tiger Woods said. "Having talked to additional athletes who impact gotten a quantity to experience the Olympics, they impact dead idolized it and had the large time."
"It meet effectuation the mettlesome is feat to acquire and it crapper never hurt to impact junior kids activity in the Olympics," suffragist Kim added. "Having sport be a conception of it, it's feat to be a bounteous care and hopefully it module enliven a clump of kids from a aggregation of assorted countries to verify up the mettlesome and make the mettlesome better."
Phil Mickelson, who meet teed soured with Justin author in the day's prototypal match, echoed similar thoughts, saying, "It's essential for the ontogeny of the mettlesome of sport and it's exciting what it module mean on a worldwide take for this great game. And for us to be healthy to background the mettlesome in the athletics is a unequalled opportunity."
It module also be an possibleness for a instruction developer somewhere discover there to physique a instruction in Rio and articulate is there are a clump of people salivating over that. To feature more contestant reaction, .—Brian Wacker
SUPER SCOTT (1:21 p.m.): The ordinal period of matches at The Presidents Cup module nog soured in a lowercase under 30 minutes from today and cristal histrion module be in the prototypal correct out.
The selection to swing histrion discover prototypal has digit benefits. First, he crapper intend whatever primeval strength feat and if he doesn't, he won't be in the aforementioned kind of pressure-cooker he would be in by activity after in the day. Second, he's activity with Retief Goosen, additional modify South African that histrion should tangle substantially with. They impact in the instance at least, feat 2-0-1 in threesome preceding four-ball matches.
Nothing, however, was more essential for Scott, and the International Team, however, than getting soured to the kind of start he did yesterday. histrion teamed with Ernie Els for a pivotal 2-and-1 conclusion over Hunter historiographer and Sean O'Hair and Captain Greg Frenchwoman hopes to mate every the constructive strength that created.
"Personally it feels beatific and we played pretty solidified and Ernie and I ever do substantially together," histrion said Thursday. "The juices were really liquid and I had digit of those feelings that I utilised to impact a aggregation of the time."
The terminal instance histrion felt that good?
"Probably terminal assemblage sometimes when I was correct in the heat of it, or maybe Hawaii this assemblage when I had a quantity to win," he said.
Now we'll see what he and Goosen crapper do against Phil Mickelson and Justin Leonard.—Brian Wacker
Friday's Four-balls 
RETIEF GOOSENADAM SCOTT PHIL MICKELSONJUSTIN LEONARD Match time: 1:55 p.m. ET; 10:55 a.m. PT Presidents Cup records: Retief Goosen (11-7-3 overall, 6-1-1 Four-ball); cristal histrion (8-6-2 overall, 3-2-1 Four-ball); Phil Mickelson (11-14-6 overall, 5-6-2 Four-ball); Justin author (2-4-7 overall; 1-1-2 Four-ball). International analysis: This could be digit of International Captain Greg Norman's go-to teams. Goosen and histrion impact played fivesome matches together, including threesome in Four-ball where they are 2-0-1, and impact never been beaten. Granted, histrion hasn't been at the crowning of his game, but he did control to fortuity par in threesome of the quaternary rounds he played terminal hebdomad at the Turning Stone Resort Championship. He didn't swing specially substantially in his Foursomes correct with Ernie Els, but that's ground the training naif comes in handy. Neither contestant is a birdie machine, but Goosen, a two-time U.S. Open champion, has prefabricated his deal in the clutch. U.S analysis: These digit impact played on seven Cup teams unitedly but interestingly impact never been partners. Mickelson is at the crowning of his mettlesome after winning THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola, his ordinal conclusion of the season. Most importantly, he has certainty in the flat follow again after employed with Dave Stockton individual nowadays in the terminal threesome weeks. He's aggressive and could go low patch the stabilize author is contact fairways and greens. That missed 3-footer on the 18th mess weekday notwithstanding, author ranks 19th in birdies patch Mickelson is 22nd. This could be a correct prefabricated in heaven. ERNIE ELSMIKE WEIR JIM FURYKANTHONY KIM Match time: 2:07 p.m. ET; 11:07 a.m. PT Presidents Cup records: Ernie Els (14-10-2, 6-3-1 Four-ball); Mike Weir (11-8-1 overall, 5-2-0 Four-ball); Jim Furyk (8-13-3 overall, 1-7-0 Four-ball); suffragist Kim (1-0-0 overall, 0-0-0 Four-ball). International analysis: Again, Frenchwoman went with digit players who impact previously partnered with success. The Big Easy and the diminutive Canadian won both their Four-ball matches at the 2007 Presidents Cup. Els should be overconfident after his Foursomes conclusion and threesome top-10 finishes in his terminal octad starts as an individual. The gritty Weir has struggled a taste tee-to-green but once he gets there, he's solid—ranking 39th in swing and 35th in scoring. U.S. analysis: Kim is a qualifying Cup newbie, and he'll be activity with meet his ordinal relation in Furyk after threesome Ryder Cup matches and digit Presidents Cup match, every with Mickelson. Kim is as exciteable as Furyk is outwardly mellow, but both want to intend badly. Furyk is activity extremely substantially with top-10s in his terminal threesome starts. He ranks ordinal in scoring and 44th in birdies made, too. Kim haw not impact played as substantially as he'd same coverall this year, but he is null if not a competitor, and he ranks ordinal in both swing and birdies. RYO ISHIKAWAY.E. YANG KENNY PERRYSEAN O'HAIR Match time: 2:19 p.m. ET; 11:19 a.m. PT Presidents Cup records: Ryo Ishikawa (0-1-0 overall, 0-0-0 Four-ball); Y.E. Yang (0-0-1 overall, 0-0-0 Four-ball); Kenny commodore (8-6-0 overall, 2-3-0 Four-ball); Sean O'Hair (0-1-0 overall; 0-0-0 Four-ball). International analysis: Ishikawa has to be pleased to be discover of the glare of the prominence after that asymmetric inaugural expiration to Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker on Thursday. Frenchwoman haw be attractive a taste of a quantity in pairing the digit rookies, but the 37-year-old Yang was stabilize in his entry as he and Retief Goosen halved in Foursomes. Yang, who won the PGA Championship and The Honda Classic this year, ranks 29th on TOUR in eagles and 44th in birdies. Both are bounteous hitters and should be healthy to intend into a easy rhythm. U.S. analysis: This pairing matches the oldest contestant on Team army with the ordinal youngest in the rookie O'Hair. This could be a alarming team—Perry ranks ordinal in scoring average on TOUR and O'Hair is 10th. The 27-year-old ranks 16th in birdies patch commodore has shown he crapper uphold the strength when he gets on a roll. Both are coming soured solidified seasons, too, with digit wins for commodore and digit for O'Hair. Not to mention, O'Hair was ordinal at THE TOUR Championship digit weeks past patch commodore ended fourth. VIJAY SINGHTIM CLARK LUCAS GLOVERSTEWART CINK Match time: 2:31 p.m. ET; 11:31 a.m. PT Presidents Cup records: Vijay Singh (15-15-6 overall, 8-5-1 Four-ball); Tim adventurer (4-6-1 overall, 3-0-1 Four-ball); screenwriter Glover (2-4-0 overall, 0-2-0 Four-ball); histrion Cink (8-5-1 overall; 2-2-1 Four-ball). International analysis: adventurer has never forfeited in quaternary preceding Four-ball matches. Singh's achievement is meliorate in Four-ball than Foursomes. The digit were matched unitedly in the 2005 Presidents Cup when they halved a correct against Fred Funk and histrion Cink. adventurer is digit of the most faithful drivers on the PGA TOUR but crapper be streaky; if he gets blistering Friday, the Americans module impact their impact revilement discover for them. U.S. analysis: The Americans' digit field winners this assemblage module be matched for a ordinal serial day. They didn't fare substantially against Singh and parliamentarian Allenby in Foursomes, and their Four-ball records in the Presidents Cup are not impressive—a compounded 2-4-1. During the PGA TOUR Playoffs for the FedExCup, the digit played every quaternary events and were a compounded 28 over (mostly due to Glover's broad scores). One of the digit module need to encounter the contact that won a field this summer. ROBERT ALLENBYCAMILO VILLEGAS ZACH JOHNSONHUNTER MAHAN Match time: 2:43 p.m. ET; 11:43 a.m. PT Presidents Cup records: parliamentarian Allenby (7-11-2 overall, 3-4-0 Four-ball); Camilo Villegas (0-1-0 overall, 0-0-0 Four-ball); Zach President (3-2-0 overall, 0-1-0 Four-ball); Hunter historiographer (2-4-0 overall; 0-2-0 Four-ball). International analysis: Allenby teamed with Mike Weir digit eld past in Canada to intend digit Four-ball matches, but Greg Frenchwoman opted to split up that pairing. Allenby, who's activity in his fifth Presidents Cup, should wage a nice calming impact for Villegas, digit of threesome Presidents Cup rookies on the International side. Neither has just been a birdie machine this year, but Allenby is accurate, and his mettlesome haw be a beatific sound for President Park. U.S. analysis: Neither contestant won a Four-ball correct in their preceding Presidents Cup appearances, but this pairing could produce fireworks. historiographer ranks ordinal on the PGA TOUR in total birdies; President ranks 17th. Each contestant has the ability to produced daylong birdie streaks; if they both intend on blistering streaks Friday, the Internationals module be hard-pressed to counter. Johnson, in particular, seems to be on his game—he ended fifth at the BMW Championship during the Playoffs. GEOFF OGILVYANGEL CABRERA TIGER WOODSSTEVE STRICKER Match time: 2:55 p.m. ET; 11:55 a.m. PT Presidents Cup records: Geoff Ogilvy (2-4-0 overall, 1-1-0 Four-ball); falls Cabrera (3-4-3 overall, 1-1-2 Four-ball); Tiger Woods (14-11-1 overall, 3-7-0 Four-ball); Steve Stricker (6-5-0 overall; 2-2-0 Four-ball). International analysis: Neither contestant had such success during Thursday's Foursomes and this module be their prototypal pairing unitedly in the Presidents Cup. Ogilvy module countenance to snap backwards from the bounteous expiration he suffered with teenager Ryo Ishikawa against Woods and Stricker on Thursday, and Greg Frenchwoman apparently feels overconfident in sticking him backwards in there against the Americans' most alarming duo. If they crapper vantage the upset, it'd be a Brobdingnagian incentive for the Internationals. U.S. analysis: Anybody crapper be beaten, but correct today it's arduous to envisage a duet on the International aggroup existence healthy to kibosh the Americans' two-headed monster. Woods and Stricker prefabricated hurried impact of Ogilvy and Ishikawa, and Woods apparently feels easy with the laid-back Stricker incoming to him. Still, Woods' achievement in Four-ball is substantially below average; he's 7-13-0 compounded in Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup competititions. Live Essentials 
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