The 2017 Presidents Cup was the 12th edition of the Presidents Cup golf competition, played at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, New Jersey, from September 28 to October 1, 2017. Steve Stricker and Nick Price were the captains of the U.S. and the International teams, respectively.

The United States were the defending champions and retained the trophy.

President Trump presented U.S. Captain Steve Stricker with the trophy. He became the first incumbent U.S. president to do so.

Course layout Liberty National Golf Club

For this Presidents Cup only, the matches began on what is normally the 5th hole at Liberty National. The order of the holes remained the same, culminating on what is normally the 4th hole.

Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal Yards4275384676114744962254315634,2321504813254454903982193951933,0967,328Par454544345383444443433371

Format The first two days consisted of five matches of foursomes and five matches of fourball. The third day consisted of four matches of foursomes and four matches of fourball. The host team captain decided the order, fourball vs. foursomes, on the first three days. On the fourth and final day, twelve singles matches were played. Thirty matches were played in all. All matches that were all-square after 18 holes were scored as a point for each team.

Team qualification and selection Both teams had 12 players. +Key Top ten on points list Two captain's picks Not picked, in top 15 of points list

United States team The United States team featured the 10 players who earned the most official FedExCup points from the 2015 BMW Championship through to the 2017 Dell Technologies Championship, with points earned in the calendar year 2017 counting double, and two captain's picks. Points for events in the FedEx Cup Playoffs were weighted the same as WGC events. The captain's picks were announced on September 6, 2017.

The final standings were:

PositionPlayerPoints 1 Dustin Johnson 10,455 2 Jordan Spieth 9,572 3 Justin Thomas 8,581 4 Rickie Fowler 5,324 5 Daniel Berger 5,232 6 Brooks Koepka 5,094 7 Kevin Kisner 5,007 8 Patrick Reed 4,599 9 Matt Kuchar 4,479 10 Kevin Chappell 4,369 11 Charley Hoffman 4,369 12 Brian Harman 3,955 13 Jason Dufner 3,897 14 Gary Woodland 3,524 15 Phil Mickelson 3,479

International team The International team featured the top 10 players in the Official World Golf Ranking at the conclusion of the 2017 Dell Technologies Championship and two captain's picks. The captain's picks were announced on September 6, 2017.

The final standings were:

PositionPlayerAverage 1 Hideki Matsuyama 9.21 2 Jason Day 6.35 3 Adam Scott 4.34 4 Louis Oosthuizen 4.26 5 Marc Leishman 3.89 6 Charl Schwartzel 3.64 7 Branden Grace 3.08 8 Kim Si-woo 3.03 9 Jhonattan Vegas 2.98 10 Adam Hadwin 2.60 11 Emiliano Grillo 2.38 12 Hideto Tanihara 2.37 13 Yuta Ikeda 2.16 14 Li Haotong 2.05 15 An Byeong-hun 2.00 16 Anirban Lahiri 1.89

Teams Captains Steve Stricker was the captain of the U.S. team, and Nick Price was the captain of the International team.

Fred Couples, Davis Love III, Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk were captain's assistants for the U.S. team, and Ernie Els, Tony Johnstone, Geoff Ogilvy and Mike Weir were captain's assistants for the International team.

Players United States team Player Age Pointsrank OWGR Previousappearances Matches W–L–H Winningpercentage 33 1 1 2 9 4–4–1 50.00 24 2 2 2 9 5–4–0 55.56 24 3 4 0 Rookie 28 4 8 1 4 1–3–0 25.00 24 5 25 0 Rookie 27 6 11 0 Rookie 33 7 24 0 Rookie 27 8 20 1 4 1–2–1 37.50 39 9 12 3 13 4–7–2 38.46 31 10 26 0 Rookie 40 11 23 0 Rookie 47 15 30 11 51 23–16–12 56.86

International team Player Country Age Pointsrank OWGR Previousappearances Matches W–L–H Winningpercentage 25 1 3 2 9 3–4–2 44.44 29 2 7 3 15 4–8–3 36.67 37 3 22 7 35 13–17–5 44.29 34 4 21 2 10 5–3–2 60.00 33 5 16 2 8 3–4–1 43.75 33 6 27 3 14 6–7–1 46.43 29 7 42 2 9 5–4–0 55.56 22 8 39 0 Rookie 33 9 38 0 Rookie 29 10 47 0 Rookie 25 11 60 0 Rookie 30 16 68 1 3 0–3–0 0.00 Captain's picks shown in yellow Ages as of September 28; OWGR as of September 25, the last ranking before the Cup

Notables Jhonattan Vegas became the first Venezuelan to play in the Presidents Cup. Phil Mickelson played in his twelfth consecutive Presidents Cup.

Thursday's foursomes matches Rickie Fowler and Justin Thomas won the first point of the day in convincing fashion, winning 8 out of the 14 holes they played. Patrick Reed and Jordan Spieth continued their dominating play as teammates, winning 5 & 4. Matt Kuchar and Dustin Johnson followed up by winning their match 1 up, the first to reach the full 18 holes and the third American point of the day, guaranteeing a United States lead after day one. The International team gained their first point of the day with the South African duo of Branden Grace and Louis Oosthuizen beating Americans Brooks Koepka and Daniel Berger, 3 & 1. The final match, between Americans Kevin Kisner and Phil Mickelson and Australians Jason Day and Marc Leishman, was halved, giving the Americans a 3 to 1 lead heading into the second day of competition.

InternationalResultsUnited StatesMatsuyama/Schwartzel6 & 4Fowler/ThomasScott/Vegas1 upJohnson/KucharKim/Grillo5 & 4Spieth/ReedOosthuizen/Grace3 & 1Koepka/BergerDay/LeishmanhalvedMickelson/Kisner1Foursomes31Overall3

Friday's fourball matches The Americans started the day leading 3 to 1. Both the American and International squads kept three of the same groupings from Thursday foursomes: Oosthuizen/Grace, Day/Leishman, Scott/Vegas, Spieth/Reed, Fowler/Thomas, and Mickelson/Kisner with one match being a rematch of Day/Leishman versus Mickelson/Kisner from day 1. All four players who sat out Thursday played on Friday. Kevin Chappell and Charley Hoffman were paired together, while the International squad put Adam Hadwin with Matsuyama and Anirban Lahiri with Schwartzel.

InternationalResultsUnited StatesMatsuyama/HadwinhalvedSpieth/ReedOosthuizen/Grace3 & 2Fowler/ThomasDay/Leishman1 upMickelson/KisnerSchwartzel/Lahiri6 & 5Chappell/HoffmanScott/Vegas3 & 2Johnson/KoepkaFourball42Overall8

Saturday's matches Morning foursomes InternationalResultsUnited StatesDay/Leishman4 & 3Reed/SpiethScott/Hadwin4 & 3Johnson/KucharVegas/Grillo2 & 1Mickelson/KisnerOosthuizen/GracehalvedThomas/FowlerFoursomes32Overall11

Afternoon fourball InternationalResultsUnited StatesOosthuizen/Day2 & 1Reed/SpiethVegas/Matsuyama3 & 2Berger/ThomasLahiri/Kim1 upChappell/HoffmanLeishman/Grace3 & 2Koepka/Johnson1Fourball33Overall14

Sunday's singles matches InternationalResultsUnited StatesTimetableLeishmanhalvedChappellDay2 & 1HoffmanMatsuyama3 & 1ThomasKim2 & 1BergerSchwartzel1 upKucharOosthuizen1 upReedGracehalvedJohnsonScott3 & 2KoepkaVegas2 & 1SpiethLahirihalvedKisnerHadwin2 & 1MickelsonGrillo6 & 4Fowler7Singles411Overall19

Individual player records Each entry refers to the win–loss–half record of the player.

United States Player Points Overall Singles Foursomes FourballsDaniel Berger 2 2–1–0 1–0–0 0–1–0 1–0–0Kevin Chappell 1.5 1–1–1 0–0–1 0–0–0 1–1–0Rickie Fowler 3.5 3–0–1 1–0–0 1–0–1 1–0–0Charley Hoffman 1 1–2–0 0–1–0 0–0–0 1–1–0Dustin Johnson 4.5 4–0–1 0–0–1 2–0–0 2–0–0Kevin Kisner 3 2–0–2 0–0–1 1–0–1 1–0–0Brooks Koepka 2 2–2–0 0–1–0 0–1–0 2–0–0Matt Kuchar 2 2–1–0 0–1–0 2–0–0 0–0–0Phil Mickelson 3.5 3–0–1 1–0–0 1–0–1 1–0–0Patrick Reed 3.5 3–1–1 0–1–0 2–0–0 1–0–1Jordan Spieth 3.5 3–1–1 0–1–0 2–0–0 1–0–1Justin Thomas 3.5 3–1–1 0–1–0 1–0–1 2–0–0

International Player Points Overall Singles Foursomes FourballsJason Day 1.5 1–3–1 1–0–0 0–1–1 0–2–0Branden Grace 2 1–2–2 0–0–1 1–0–1 0–2–0Emiliano Grillo 0 0–3–0 0–1–0 0–2–0 0–0–0Adam Hadwin 0.5 0–2–1 0–1–0 0–1–0 0–0–1Kim Si-woo 1 1–2–0 0–1–0 0–1–0 1–0–0Anirban Lahiri 1.5 1–1–1 0–0–1 0–0–0 1–1–0Marc Leishman 1 0–3–2 0–0–1 0–1–1 0–2–0Hideki Matsuyama 1.5 1–2–1 1–0–0 0–1–0 0–1–1Louis Oosthuizen 2.5 2–2–1 1–0–0 1–0–1 0–2–0Charl Schwartzel 1 1–2–0 1–0–0 0–1–0 0–1–0Adam Scott 1 1–3–0 1–0–0 0–2–0 0–1–0Jhonattan Vegas 1 1–4–0 1–0–0 0–2–0 0–2–0

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