2024 Presidents Cup, Day 3: U.S. regains control with pair of 3-1 sessions

Tom Kim wasn’t too happy with some U.S. players after his match, accusing some of them of “cursing” at he and his partner, Si Woo Kim.

“It got a little feisty out there,” Tom Kim said. “I could hear some players cursing at us. That part wasn’t really – I don’t think there was good sportsmanship there. But it’s all part of the fun. I understand it.”

He later added, “You see me out there throwing fist pumps and jumping on the green. It’s all part of it, I get it. I just don’t think there’s a need to look at someone and curse at them. I just don’t think there’s a need for it.

“I understand it. I don’t get hurt about it. My feelings don’t hurt at all. I hope there’s no negative comments. That’s not what I’m trying to do here.”

With Si Woo Kim stalking a 16-footer of his own, Patrick Cantlay strikes first by rolling in the birdie at the par-4 18th hole.

Kim misses, and Cantlay’s birdie caps a 1-up win and 3-1 session for the Americans, who lead 11-7 entering singles.

Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley close out Hideki Matsuyama and Sungjae Im, 3 and 2, after trailing 3 down after six holes.

“I felt like I was on a different planet there for the first five holes ... and Russ, I don’t think he missed a shot today,” Scheffler said.

The nail in the coffin was Im lipping out an 8-footer to extend the match.

Scheffler/Henley (USA) win, 3 and 2

Well, they found it. They received relief for an embedded ball.

And Si Woo Kim followed by holing out for birdie to win the hole – and then put ‘em to sleep!

Tied thru 16

Collin Morikawa and Sam Burns.

Mac Hughes drives it well right and Corey Conners later misses a 12-foot par save as Morikawa and Burns eek out a 1-up win.

Morikawa/Burns (USA) win, 1 up

The search is on for Tom Kim’s approach shot at 16:

Just like that, the U.S. leads in two matches again.

Scottie Scheffler sticks a wedge from 133 yards to tap-in range to win No. 14.

And Xander Schauffele sinks a 34-foot curler for birdie at No. 15.

Those American leads were short-lived.

Sungjae Im drains a long one from 18 feet for par to stay tied with Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley through 13 holes.

Si Woo Kim then gets a birdie to sneak in on the low side from 7 feet as he and Tom Kim tie Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay through 14 holes.

And then Mac Hughes jams in an 11-footer for birdie at No. 16 to tie his match against Sam Burns and Collin Morikawa.

With one point already on the board for the Internationals, the Americans:

• Take lead in Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay’s match as Tom Kim misses a 6-footer for par at the par-3 13th.

• Tie Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley’s match after Scheffler makes a 5-footer for birdie and Sungjae Im misses from 8 feet at the par-5 12th.

Brian Harman gets a tough lie left of the green from Max Homa, and he can only flop out to about 16 feet past the hole.

With the Internationals facing an 8-footer for par, Homa misses the par putt and then concedes the hole and the match.

Scott/Pendrith (INT) win, 2 up

Sam Burns rolls in an 8-footer for birdie to win the par-4 14th hole and give he and Collin Morikawa the lead again on Corey Conners and Mac Hughes.

Burns/Morikawa (USA), 1 up thru 14

After sinking a couple nice putts in recent holes, Scottie Scheffler misses a birdie putt from 8 feet, 10 inches at the par-4 11th hole. A make there would’ve won the hole and tied the match.

Im/Matsuyama (INT), 1 up thru 11

Taylor Pendrith tugs his tee ball left into a thick lie at the par-3 17th hole, and despite Adam Scott hitting a nice chip and Pendrith making the par save, the Internationals see their lead cut in half as Harman finishes off a birdie after Homa sticks his tee ball to 4 feet.

Pendrith/Scott (INT), 1 up thru 17

There is no red on the board.

Mac Hughes made sure of it at the par-5 12th hole, where he chunk-and-ran a 20-yard bunker shot with perfect speed right into the bottom of the cup.

The eagle tied he and Corey Conners with Sam Burns and Collin Morikawa.

Tied thru 12

There goes an American lead as Tom Kim fires an approach at No. 10 to about 15 feet and Si Woo Kim rolls in the birdie from the fringe to tie the match against Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay.

And, you guessed it, they celebrated.

Tied thru 10

• Pendrith/Scott (INT), 2 up thru 14
• Morikawa/Burns (USA), 1 up thru 11
• Cantlay/Schauffele (USA) and Kim/Kim (INT), tied thru 10
• Matsuyama/Im (INT), 2 up thru 9

Kim birdies the ninth and the U.S. can’t match. The Internationals trim their deficit.

Cantlay/Schauffele (USA), 1 up thru 9

Im chips in to tie the hole at the par-5 sixth and remain 3 up over Scheffler/Henley.

Tom Kim didn’t like having to putt this one.

Cantlay/Schauffele (USA), 2 up thru 7

They’ve turned a 2-down deficit into a 2-up lead over Conners/Hughes through eight holes.

After missing from inside 6 feet to lose the fourth, Scottie Scheffler misses from inside 4 feet to lose the fifth.

Matsuyama/Im (INT), 3 up thru 5

Burns/Morikawa (USA), 1 up thru 7

The Canadian, who struggled in morning fourballs, rolls this one in at the ninth. That’s back-to-back winning holes for Pendrith and Scott as they take the lead.

Pendrith/Scott (INT), 1 up thru 9

With the International team in tight, Russell Henley makes this putt to ensure a tie.

Matsuyama/Im (INT), 1 up thru 2

Schauffele/Cantlay (USA), 1 up thru 2

As Hideki Matsuyama and Sungjae Im take on Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley.

And the putts are falling.

Homa/Harman (USA), 1 up thru 5

Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay, after losing Friday foursomes, 7 and 6, are together again. They are facing Si Woo Kim and Tom Kim, who grabbed the only International point in Saturday morning fourballs.

Canadians Mackenzie Hughes and Corey Conners are facing Collin Morikawa and Sam Burns.

Hughes and Conners won their first foursomes match, 6 and 5, on Friday, but fell in Saturday morning fourballs.

Brian Harman and Max Homa won the first hole and tied the second to take an early 1-up lead over Adam Scott and Taylor Pendrith.

The next match will begin at 2:58 p.m. ET as players are being given a break between sessions.

Hideki Matsuyama had 7 feet for birdie to extend the anchor match, but he tugged it.

Here’s how the four fourball matches ended:

The PGA Tour has to make a tweak to the pairings after posting them.

The first match becomes the anchor match since Mike Weir put Hideki Matsuyama and Sungjae Im out first even though they were still on the 16th hole.

While Taylor Pendrith didn’t card a single birdie in his match Saturday morning, the other two Canadians, Corey Conners and Mac Hughes, teamed up to notch just two birdies against Xander Schauffele and Tony Finau, who never trailed.

Schauffele/Finau (USA) win, 3 and 2

Si Woo Kim grabs a point for the Internationals by making a 17-footer for birdie at the par-4 15th hole.

Before the ball even reached the hole, Si Woo was already going for the early hat pull.

Kim/Kim (INT) win, 4 and 3

Tom Kim sinks a 20-footer for birdie at No. 14 and goes bananas. Keegan Bradley matches, though, making a 10-footer to tie the hole.

Kim/Kim (INT), 3 up thru 14

Scottie Scheffler drains birdie putts of 7 feet (No. 16) and 16 feet (No. 17) to close out Adam Scott and Taylor Pendrith.

Pendrith holed out just four times in 17 holes.

Scheffler/Morikawa (USA) win, 2 and 1

How about Patrick Cantlay from 49 feet?

Cantlay’s chip-in eagle at the par-5 12th marks the Americans’ second straight winning hole.

Cantlay/Burns (USA), 2 up thru 12

Tony Finau makes birdie from 5 feet at No. 14 to put he and Xander Schauffele 3 up on Corey Conners and Mac Hughes with four holes to play.

There have been just five birdies carded in this match, four by the U.S. players.

Finau/Schauffele (USA), 3 up thru 14

With Scottie Scheffler in the water off the tee at the par-4 15th and Collin Morikawa running a birdie putt 6 feet by, the Internationals had the door left open for them.

But Adam Scott missed from 12 feet, Taylor Pendrith failed to convert from 4 feet, and the hole was tied.

Tied thru 15 holes

Hideki Matsuyama just three-putted from 7 feet, 7 inches. The second miss was from 3 feet, 5 inches.

Cantlay/Burns (USA), 1 up thru 11

With Taylor Pendrith in the lake off the tee at No. 14, Adam Scott steps up and sinks a 26-footer for birdie.

Scottie Scheffler and Collin Morikawa have chances to tie the hole, but Morikawa, going first, misses from 5 feet, and Scheffler whiffs from 15 feet.

Tied thru 14

Hideki Matsuyama sinks a birdie from 25 feet to kick off the back nine and even things back up against Patrick Cantlay and Sam Burns.

After Sungjae Im hit an incredible approach from the left rough at the par-4 eighth to inside 3 feet, Sam Burns dropped a 14-foot birdie putt that would tie the hole and maintain the Americans’ advantage.

Cantlay/Burns (USA), 1 up thru 8

Tom Kim can’t be stopped right now. This time he cans an 18-footer to win the par-4 eighth.

Kim/Kim (INT), 3 up thru 8

Tom Kim puts perfect speed on his birdie putt from 10 feet at the par-3 seventh as he and Si Woo Kim go 2 up on Wyndham Clark and Keegan Bradley. That’s four birdies in seven holes for the Kims.

How about Tom’s move walking away and leaving the ball in the hole?

Moments later, Scottie Scheffler lips out an 8-footer to win the ninth hole. He and Collin Morikawa remain tied with Adam Scott and Taylor Pendrith.

From 259 yards at the par-5 sixth, Tom Kim draws lumber and finds the green, about 22 feet away. Upon contact, Kim immediately began walking after it with his hand in the air.

He missed his eagle putt before Si Woo Kim drained a 12-footer to tie the hole with birdie.

Kim/Kim (INT), 1 up thru 6

Tony Finau’s birdie wins the seventh.

Finau/Schauffele (USA), 1 up thru 7

Here’s where we stand early in the four fourball matches:

• Scheffler/Morikawa (USA) and Scott/Pendrith (INT), tied thru 6
• Finau/Schauffele (USA) and Conners/Hughes (INT) tied thru 5
• Kim/Kim (INT) leading Bradley/Clark (USA), 1 up thru 4
• Matsuyama/Im (INT) leading Cantlay/Burns (USA), 1 up thru 3

Kim/Kim (INT), 2 up thru 2

People oversell what a walk-in putt is. Si Woo Kim just showed everyone on the first hole.

Kim/Kim (INT), 1 up thru 1

Collin Morikawa rolls in a 39-footer to win the second.

Morikawa/Scheffler (USA), 1 up thru 2

Hughes and Conners scramble to tie the first hole against Schauffele and Fina.

Adjusted tee times for the final two matches:

Chief rules official Gary Young told NBC Sports’ John Wood that the Tour had an hour of extra time on the backend of TV coverage (which was scheduled to end at 6 p.m. ET). That has already been eaten.

He added that whenever officials get the OK to resume play, players should return to action 20 minutes thereafter.

“Going to be a while,” rules official Mark Dusbabek said of the delay.

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Some are still practicing on the range.

Both of the Canadians hooked their tee shots into the rough with Hughes’ hitting a tree and ricocheting farther left.

Finau and Schauffele are in good shape, in the fairway and intermediate cut, respectively.

After the second match teed off, officials blew the horn. According to booth rules official Mark Dusbabek, visibility was at 1 mile when play began but has reduced to less than a half-mile because of the intensifying fog.

The fog is so thick down the first fairway that Tony Finau hits his drive and then looks at the giant TV monitor to see where his ball landed.

Finau/Schauffele (USA) are facing Conners/Hughes (INT) in Match 2.

They warmed up under the lights, and the fog is still thick at Royal Montreal.

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U.S. captain Jim Furyk: “We regrouped, the leaders talked ... a new day, we gotta get after it early.”

International captain Mike Weir: “We enjoyed it for a moment because it was a really special day ... but it’s time to reset for today.”

The first fourball match is on the course with Scheffler/Morikawa (USA) vs. Scott/Pendrith (INT).

The four better-ball matches for the morning session:

2024 Presidents Cup: Day 3 fourball matchups, tee times at Royal Montreal

The U.S. and International teams will compete in two sessions on Saturday.

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