by The United States continued their dominance of the Presidents Cup by claiming an 18½-11½ victory over the international team, sealing a 10th straight title.
The US led 11-7 before Sunday’s 12 singles matches and needed 4½ points on the final day to defend their title in Canada.
Keegan Bradley defeated Kim Si-woo to secure the winning point at Royal Montreal, with the US winning six of the singles matches and halving three of them.
Xander Schauffele got the Americans started with a 4&3 victory over Australian Jason Day in the opening match.
“My goal was just to set the tone, to get [American] got on that board as early as possible, and I did it,” Schauffele told NBC.
Schauffele, who has won two major championships this year, finished the week with a 4-1-0 record, as did teammates Patrick Cantlay and Collin Morikawa.
South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout (2-1-0) was the only international player with a winning record.
“I’m so proud of the team and proud to be here,” said Bradley, who will captain the U.S. against Europe in next year’s Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black on Long Island.
‘We’re going to copy a lot of things [captain] Jim Furyk did this this week. He established a culture for us here, and we are going to bring that to Bethpage. I hope many of these twelve are on that team.”
All twelve players on the US team are ranked in the top 25 in the world, compared to four international players.
“We talked all week about being a dog, being the stronger team,” Furyk added.
“That back nine holes, if you look at how many holes were won and how many holes were lost, I have to feel like we owned the back nine this week and that was the difference.”
