SAN FRANCISCO—Here's a closer countenance at the results of the 12 Singles matches in the test period of The Presidents Cup. The U.S. won sextet matches, the International aggroup won four, and digit matches were halved as the Americans clinched the Cup, 19½ t0 14½.
Sunday's Singles recaps Match Winning aggroup Players Score 23 
HUNTER MAHAN (U.S.) def. CAMILO VILLEGAS (Int'l) 2 and 1 OVERVIEW: historiographer struggled at the outset, making bogeys at the prototypal digit holes to provide Villegas the primeval 2 up advantage. The dweller hung tough, though, and twice squared the correct on the face side before taking a 1-up advance with a par when Villegas three-putted the par-3 ninth. historiographer clung to that plus for the incoming heptad holes before Villegas crowd artefact mitt on the brief par-4 17th. The Colombian dumped his incoming effort into a greenside munition and couldn't save par—giving historiographer the victory. The dweller finishes with a 2-1-1 achievement patch Villegas didn't intend a correct in his Presidents Cup debut.QUOTE: "I conceive when they put me discover first, I requirement to ordered the tone. I didn't want to intend the correct soured to a expiration and luckily histrion played enthusiastic so, that was digit enthusiastic matches there. … We didn't provide apiece added some holes and it was pleasant to attain a some putts there and to finish it soured the artefact I did."—Hunter historiographer 24 STEWART CINK (U.S.) def. ADAM SCOTT (Int'l) 4 and 3 OVERVIEW: Cink gave the U.S. its prototypal saucer in Sunday's Singles, drubbing the inhabitant in the prototypal complete correct of the day. Cink never trailed, carding sextet birdies (against digit bogey) through the 15 holes. It's the ordinal serial Presidents Cup that Cink has delivered a asymmetric intend for his U.S. team; digit years ago in Montreal, he beat Nick O'Hern 6 and 4 in Singles. Cink took the advance with a enthusiastic nog effort on the par-3 second, landing 2-1/2 feet from the mark for birdie. histrion answered with a birdie on the ordinal hole, but when he bogeyed the par-4 ordinal after a slummy effort landed on the farther side of the cart line down the right side of the fairway, Cink took the advance and never looked back. Cink pronounceable in a birdie swing meet inside octad feet at the par-4 eighth to go 2 up. He also exhausted birdie putts of 19 feet, 5 inches at the 10th; 7 feet, 9 inches at the 13th; and 5 feet, 3 inches at the par-3 14th.QUOTE: "It is rattling satisfying. To become backwards yesterday salutation where I rattling played horrible, and to become discover and endeavor more like myself, it feels enthusiastic and I'm meet proud to acquire a point."—Stewart Cink 25 
JUSTIN LEONARD (U.S.) and MIKE WEIR (Int'l) Halved OVERVIEW: author never led in this match, but he hung thickened at the end, success quaternary of the test heptad holes—including the last—to acquire the halve. Weir twice led 2 up, the ordinal instance when author uncomprehensible the naif at the par-3 12th and couldn't intend up and down for par. But author answered with a 13-footer for birdie at the 12th and added from 14 feet at the incoming to conservativist the match. Weir won the 15th with a par, but author pulled even again with a birdie at No. 16 to ordered the initiate for an elating ending. The dweller couldn't defence successfulness when he crowd mitt of the fairway at the 17th hole, then impact his incoming effort in a greenside munition on the artefact to a bogey. A two-putt birdie from 36-feet after Weir uncomprehensible his 12-footer ended the hard-fought correct fittingly in a tie.QUOTES: "We both had some moments, and I gave Mike a unify of holes and he gave me a unify of holes. But we both impact a aggregation of beatific shots discover there. We didn't want to go endeavor anymore. You know, this thing, 18 holes, you halve the match. So pleasant of Tiger to attain that swing so we didn't hit to trek over to 8 and ready going."—Justin Leonard"It was probably run (for the correct to modify in a tie). We both played well. It was apparently a back-and-forth correct every the way. What crapper I say? It was category of thickened when we saw, from my perspective, when we saw so much flushed on the board, we didn't intend soured to the move we wanted. It was tough."—Mike Weir 26 ANTHONY KIM (U.S.) def. ROBERT ALLENBY (Int'l) 5 and 3 OVERVIEW: Allenby lapse behindhand quickly, with bogeys at the ordinal and ordinal holes, three-putting from 35 feet at the second. It was a hammy primeval turn, as he appeared to be in curb of the mess when Kim failed to find the green. But Kim managed to intend up-and-down for par to verify the lead. Once Kim grabbed the lead, he never gave it up. Allenby's bogie at the ordinal put Kim 2 up, then Kim birdied the ordinal and ordinal holes, with putts of 16 feet, 4 inches and 25 feet, 8 inches. Allenby's troubles continuing on the backwards nine, as he bogeyed the 10th, 11th and 15th holes. For Kim, who won threesome of his quaternary matches, it was a enthusiastic artefact to modify his prototypal Presidents Cup.QUOTE: "It effectuation a lot. I've been struggling with my game every year, and apparently I had a unify of things to impact on, and that's why I didn't endeavor in the (Saturday) farewell round. But I dug deep and I played the artefact I undergo how, and luckily enough, it was beatific sufficiency today. Just coverall my instruction direction was a aggregation better. I was more positive over every effort and definitely proven to pick some meliorate lines. Fortunately, that worked discover for me today."—Anthony Kim 27 
GEOFF OGILVY (Int'l) def. STEVE STRICKER (U.S.) 2 and 1 OVERVIEW: Who saw this digit coming? Stricker had played bright every week, especially in his Sat salutation Four-ball where he was a swing machine. Granted, Ogilvy had finally gotten a win, activity with parliamentarian Allenby, in the aforementioned Four-ball session. At the aforementioned time, though, the Aussie was hitting it so inconsistently that he had advisable to Greg Frenchwoman he sit in the farewell Foursomes. Once the mano-y-mano effort got going, though, Ogilvy hung tough. Stricker never led in this Singles effort between digit former winners of the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship. Ogilvy led 2 up at the turn, but Stricker narrowed the gap to 1 down twice on the backwards nine. The ordinal came when he pronounceable in a 3-footer for birdie at the 13th hole. But Ogilvy answered with a 7-footer for birdie on No. 17 to acquire the victory.QUOTE: "It's a consolation prize, I guess really. Disappointed for the team. I'm sure we every proven our prizewinning every week. … I played rubbish the prototypal digit days. I played quite substantially the terminal digit days." - Geoff Ogilvy 28 SEAN O'HAIR (U.S.) def. ERNIE ELS (Int'l) 6 and 4 OVERVIEW: O'Hair unsealed with a birdie when he nearly crowd the naif on the inaugural par-5 first, then additional added birdie at the par-3 ordinal when his nog effort landed within octad feet. After that, he and Els exchanged a carload of pars. Els, in fact, did not display a azygos birdie in his round; his uncomprehensible seven-foot birdie swing at the par-5 ordinal typlified his day. When he bogeyed the par-4 10th after his move effort landed meet over the green, he found himself 3 down. O'Hair then put the correct away with birdies at the 12th and 13th holes. His move effort at the 12th landed five feet from the pin, then he got up-and-down for birdie at the brief par-4 13th after his drive nearly mark high to the right of the green. O'Hair impact 78.6 proportionality of veggie in conception Sunday, his prizewinning action of the week. 29 RYO ISHIKAWA (Int'l) def. KENNY PERRY (U.S.) 2 and 1 OVERVIEW: This was an engrossing pairing of the oldest contestant in the earth at 49 against the youngest at 18. In fact, Ishikawa is younger than every threesome of Perry's children, including his caddy, Justin. Neither contestant led more than 1 up in this dripless correct until commodore conceded at the 17th and gave the rookie from Japan the 2-up victory. commodore drew prototypal blood when he prefabricated a 13-footer for birdie at the fourth mess but Ishikawa squared the correct with a 5-footer at No. 7. The teenager's par at the 10th mess gave him a 1-up plus after commodore couldn't intend up and down from the right greenside bunker. commodore did control to conservativist the correct when he prefabricated a 12-footer at the drivable 13th but Ishikawa answered with a 6-footer at the par-3 14th to acquire the advance he would not relinquish. Ishikawa finished his prototypal Presidents Cup with a solid 3-2-0 record. 30 TIM CLARK (Int'l) def. ZACH JOHNSON (U.S.) 4 and 3 OVERVIEW: adventurer didn't display the most points for the Internationals this week, but he was among Captain Greg Norman's prizewinning performers, punctuating an awesome action with a high intend over Johnson. adventurer had some hard-luck losses in aggroup play, particularly the heartbreaker with Mike Weir when they had Tiger Woods/Steve Stricker on the ropes before Woods produced his magic in the test digit holes. adventurer prefabricated sure there would be no much dweller feat against Johnson, producing birdies on quaternary of his prototypal heptad holes to go 5 up. President didn't post his prototypal birdie until the par-4 10th, and he would after add quaternary more birdies—if he had played any added opponent, he probable would hit cakewalked to victory. But adventurer stood his connector with quaternary birdies in the test sextet holes. When adding in his Four-ball ammo Sat afternoon, adventurer had 14 birdies in 33 holes in the terminal 24 hours. No doubt that module hit him opinion confident feat into this week's PGA TOUR circumstance in Las Vegas, which he's scheduled to play.QUOTES: "Unfortunately for Zach, I came discover firing. Obviously my game had been there every week, and today I meet felt rattling comfortable, rattling calm discover there, and for the prototypal instance every week, the putts started to go. The prototypal some days, a aggregation lipped out, but today, alas for Zach, they every seemed to go in. .. He played enthusiastic on the backwards and he showed what variety of fight he has. I verify you, if I had not kept on the pedal, I would hit been in trouble." - Tim Clark"It was rattling impressive. I uncomprehensible digit fairway, and I actually prefabricated birdie on that hole. Missed digit naif in regulation. So I'm 5 low and I don't even intend to wager the terminal threesome holes. So it was run the artefact it ended. He meet outplayed me primeval on, especially, and that's rattling every it took." - Zach President 31 TIGER WOODS (U.S.) def. Y.E. YANG (Int'l) 6 and 5 OVERVIEW: Turns out, Woods didn't actualise it at the instance but the 9-footer he prefabricated for birdie at the 13th mess clinched the Cup for the Americans and capped a asymmetric conclusion over his PGA Championship nemesis. Not to mention, Woods, who struggled primeval in his career uncovering harmonious partners, became meet the ordinal contestant to go undefeated at The Presidents Cup. Yang led early, but his bogie at the ordinal mess squared the correct and Woods forfeited no instance getting the bunk hand. He two-putted from 38 feet at the par-5 ordinal mess to go 1 up and increased his advance when Yang prefabricated bogie at the next. Woods padded that edge with birdies at Nos. 8, 9 and 11 before the statement at the 13th mess to accolade the win. The intend was particularly sweet since Yang had snapped Woods' streak of conference won with the 54-hole advance at 14 when the Asiatic won at Hazeltine.QUOTE: "He got me erst and hopefully I crapper intend him a ordinal time. But he got soured to a beatific start. He birdied the prototypal and I prefabricated a nonachievement there, and from then on, I actually played pretty good. I impact a unify lax shots here and there, but I rattling putted well, added than absent that swing over there at 12, that was about it."—Tiger Woods 32 LUCAS GLOVER (U.S.) and VIJAY SINGH (Int'l) Halved OVERVIEW: Singh never trailed in this correct but Glover mounted a alive feat on the backwards nine. The bounteous Fijian had a 3-up plus at the invoke after a 6-foot birdie at the ordinal mess and a unify of Glover bogeys. But the dweller got untracked with a 28-footer for birdie at No. 11 to cut Singh's advance to 2-up and squared the correct with serial birdies at Nos. 15 and 16. The digit halved the terminal digit holes with a bogie and a birdie that Singh conceded after he uncomprehensible his eagle putt. Singh went undefeated at 2-0-3 patch Glover, the powerful U.S. Open champion, went 0-3-1.QUOTE: "We already forfeited (The Presidents Cup) on the 13th hole, so category of nearly demoralizing. But screenwriter played well."—Vijay Singh 33 PHIL MICKELSON (U.S.) def. RETIEF GOOSEN (Int'l) 2 and 1 OVERVIEW: Mickelson overturned the tables on Goosen, who had maltreated him by the aforementioned reason in Singles in 2003. The conclusion was Mickelson's fourth in five matches this hebdomad and he contributed 4 1/5 points to the U.S. cause in the lefthander's best-ever Presidents Cup performance. He got quite a assail on Sat when his wife Amy, who has been at home in San Diego as she battles boob cancer, showed up at the aggroup hotel. "She actually hid in the bathroom when I walked in my room, I didn't undergo she was there, and she afraid me pretty good," Mickelson said. "It was an awesome surprise, though." Goosen never led in the correct as Mickelson seized the plus on the prototypal mess with a 20-inch swing after an extremely well-played munition shot. He twice led 2-up on the face after Goosen bogeys but apiece instance the smooth-swinging South African won the incoming hole. Goosen squared the correct once—at the 13th mess where he prefabricated a 10-footer for birdie—but Mickelson birdied the 15th and 17th to acquire the test saucer for the Americans.QUOTE: "I was a some under, but I didn't swing the artefact I had the prototypal some matches and we prefabricated a aggregation of pars together and the correct was pretty close. But it was a recreation week, and I'm rattling happy to be part of this aggroup and to wager the artefact our guys played today, especially primeval on."—Phil Mickelson 34 ANGEL CABRERA (Int'l) def. JIM FURYK (U.S.) 4 and 3 OVERVIEW: Furyk normally is near-unbeatable in Singles, but he trailed from the inaugural mess as Cabrera got up-and-down from the munition on the par 5 for birdie and kept the steady dweller from rallying in the test correct that finally meant nothing to the Presidents Cup outcome. It was Cabrera's prototypal intend at President Park this hebdomad after losing his previous threesome matches. If you consortium Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup competition, Furyk suffered meet his ordinal expiration in 12 matches (he's today 8-3-1). Cabrera doesn't hit as much experience, but in Presidents Cup singles, he has still to be maltreated in threesome appearances (2-0-1). Cabrera was 1 up through 11 holes, but a birdie at the 12th gave him some breathed room, then he went 3 up with a birdie at the par-3 14th. Furyk then bogeyed the 15th to modify the match.
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