Justin Thomas has been overlooked of the US squad for this month’s Presidents Cup whereas Worldwide captain Mike Weir has named fellow Canadians Corey Conners, Taylor Pendrith and Mackenzie Hughes to his crew.
Thomas, who has performed thrice within the Ryder Cup and the Presidents Cup, didn’t make Jim Furyk’s crew regardless of qualifying for final week’s Tour Championship the place he completed tied 14th. Thomas would have completed seventh if all 30 gamers within the subject began at degree par.
Furyk as a substitute named Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley, Sam Burns, Tony Finau, Brian Harman, Russell Henley and Max Homa as his captain’s picks.
This would be the third Presidents Cup crew for Finau, second for Bradley, Burns and Homa whereas Harman and Henley are making their debuts. The event will return to The Royal Montreal Golf Membership in Montreal, Canada ranging from September 24-29, reside on Sky Sports activities.
Furyk stated Harman, who had three top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour this season, together with a tied-second at The Gamers Championship, and Henley, who had six top-10 finishes, would each convey vital components to the crew.
He stated: “Throughout his career, Brian has been one of the fiercest match play competitors I’ve seen and Russell has been one of the most consistent players on the PGA Tour these last two years.”
Lee and Hughes set for Presidents Cup debuts
Weir additionally picked South Africa’s Christiaan Bezuidenhout, South Korea’s Si Woo Kim and Australia’s Min Woo Lee for his worldwide crew. Lee and Hughes can be making their Presidents Cup debuts.
Pendrith earned the primary win of his PGA Tour profession at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson and had 5 different top-10 finishes in 2024 whereas advancing to the Tour Championship for the primary time. Conners and Hughes every had three top-10 finishes this yr.
In 2024, Bezuidenhout had a runner-up end at The American Specific, Kim had a pair of top-10 finishes and Lee loved the most effective finishes of his PGA Tour profession with matching T2 efforts on the Cognizant Basic and the Rocket Mortgage Basic.
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The Presidents Cup, a biennial occasion that pits a U.S. crew towards a line-up of worldwide gamers from outdoors Europe, can be performed from Sept 26-29 in Montreal.
The U.S. are 12-1-1 within the Ryder Cup-style competitors with their solely loss coming at Royal Melbourne Golf Membership in Australia in 1998.
US Workforce: Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay, Sahith Theegala, Keegan Bradley, Sam Burns, Tony Finau, Brian Harman, Russell Henley and Max Homa
Worldwide Workforce: Hideki Matsuyama, Sungjae Im, Adam Scott, Tom Kim, Jason Day, Byeong Hun An, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Corey Conners, Taylor Pendrith, Mackenzie Hughes, Si Woo Kim and Min Woo Lee.
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