Presidents Cup 2017: U.S. continues to shut down Internationals, leads 8-2 after Day 2

Hailey Hernandez

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The 2017 Presidents Cup is underway at Liberty National as the U.S team tries to capture its seventh straight trophy. The Americans with Jordan Spieth and Dustin Johnson are facing perhaps their toughest competition yet against a strong International team led by Jason Day and Hideki Matsuyama. 

The Presidents Cup is played with 30 matches with a mix of foursomes, four-ball and singles matches. Each match is worth one point, but if a match is tied after 18 holes, each team will recieve a half point. The magic number for one team to secure a victory is 15.5 points. 

Thursday and Saturday morning will start with five foursome matches. A foursomes match is played between two U.S. and two International players and each side will play one ball with the players alternating to hit tee shots.

For Friday and Saturday afternoon, the game switches to a four-ball match. A four-ball match is when two U.S. players face off against two International players with players playing the better ball of their side. For example, if Rickie Fowler pars a hole and his partner Justin Thomas birdies the same hole, the team will keep Thomas' score.

Sunday will be singles matches, with one U.S. player going head-to-head against an International player.

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Follow along with all of the action from Day 2 of the Presidents Cup:

The fist-pump from Tiger and the celebration from Phil and Kis...this is everything we ever needed.

A dominant U.S. team continues to prove their talents.

Mickelson sinks a big putt on 18 to clinch the last match of the day for the Americans. 

Johnson managed three birdies on the back nine to help the U.S. secure another point.

DJ's putt almost skips by the hole, luckily it falls in.

Daniel Berger falling over into the bunker the background is the best thing I've seen all day.

Spieth misses this putt to win the hole. Earns the U.S. a half point.

Fowler and Thomas win their second match 3 and 2. Could be the Americans best duo going into the weekend.

This one speaks for itself.

Chappell and Hoffman just earned the first U.S. point of the day. They won their match 6 and 5 against Schwartzel and Lahiri.

Spieth and Reed are making up ground on the Internationals. 

Thomas holes out from the bunker and he is FIRED UP. 

Chappell and Hoffman lead by 5 thru 9. Both playing in their first Presidents Cup match. 

Scores update: Internationals are charging on Day 2.

Matches led by U.S. — 2: Fowler/Thomas vs. Oosthuizen/Grace and Chappell/Hoffman vs. Schwartzel/Lahiri
Matches led by Internationals — 3: Reed/Spieth vs. Hadwin/Matsuyama, Mickelson/Kisner vs. Day/Leishman and Koepka/Johnson vs. Vegas/Scott

Thomas and Fowler are 2 up in their match thru 8.

Spieth whiffs this shot standing on the edge of the bunker. Now Reed has to finish the hole on his own to try to keep the U.S. team in this match.

Momentum has shifted now in favor of the Internationals. 

Scores update:

Matches all square — 2: Spieth/Reed vs. Matsuyama and Hadwin and Johnson/Koepka vs. Scott/Vegas.
Matches led by U.S. — 2: Fowler/Thomas vs. Oosthuizen/Grace and Chappell/Hoffman vs. Schwartzel/Lahiri
Matches led by Internationals — 1: Mickelson/Kisner vs. Day/Leishman

Not sure there's much the Internationals can do when the U.S. is playing like this.

The penalty is that his partner, Charl Schwartzel, will play one ball on the third hole. 

 

 

Rickie continues to bring his A game for Day 2.

Matt Kuchar is sitting out today's matches, so he made himself useful in the stands.

Many people said Phil shouldn't be on the Presidents Cup team...hard to keep arguing that after watching him so far this week. 

Patrick Reed for eagle.

JT loves the crowd, the crowd loves JT.

Not a good start for the Internationals. They aren't exactly in a position to be making mistakes like this.

Day 2 is underway. The Americans are bringing out two of the same pairings as yesterday with Rickie and JT and Spieth and Reed.

Tee times for Day 2 four-ball matchups: 

11:35 a.m. — Jordan Spieth/Patrick Reed vs. Hideki Matsuyama/Adam Hadwin
11:50 a.m. — Rickie Fowler/Justin Thomas vs. Louis Oosthuizen/Branden Grace
12:05 p.m. — Phil Mickelson/Kevin Kisner vs. Jason Day/Marc Leishman
12:20 p.m. — Kevin Chappell/Charley Hoffman vs. Charl Schwartzel/Anirban Lahiri
12:35 p.m. — Dustin Johnson/Brooks Koepka vs. Adam Scott/Jhonattan Vegas

U.S. leads 3.5 to 1.5 after Day 1.

The Americans have never lost after leading first session.

 

Hailey Hernandez