MEDINAH — The United States completed a thrilling final-day comeback to beat the Internationals 17-13 at Medinah and retain the Presidents Cup for an 11th successive time. Trailing by three points entering Sunday singles, the hosts dominated the closing session to avoid what would have been only their second defeat in the biennial competition's 32-year history.
Jacob Bridgeman secured the decisive point, holing a four-foot par putt at the 18th to seal a one-up win over Australia's Min Woo Lee. The Americans won nine of the 12 singles matches, with additional victories for Cameron Young, Justin Thomas, Scottie Scheffler, Chris Gotterup, Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele and Jackson Koivun to overturn the deficit.
"I told the guys last night that funny stuff happens here. Medinah's got a history of funny things happening," said U.S. captain Brandt Snedeker, who was a member of the American team beaten by Europe in the famous Ryder Cup comeback at the same venue in 2012. "All these guys fought for each other, fought for this country, fought for this team."
"The US team came out firing, we knew they would," said International captain Geoff Ogilvy. "It was on a knife edge all day. If some of those one downs we had out there had flipped to one up, the numbers looked really good and who knows what momentum that could give."
The U.S. entered the week with eight of the world's 11 top-ranked players and leaned on that depth in singles after falling behind following an early 3-2 lead entering Friday foursomes at Medinah. U.S. President Donald Trump attended in his role as honorary chairman, greeting the players and making a speech before the matches got under way.