The 2009 Presidents Cup was held October 8–11, 2009 at the Harding Park Golf Club in San Francisco, California. The United States team won the golf competition by a margin of their second consecutive win by that exact score and third in a row overall. This was also the sixth outright win for the U.S. Team in eight meetings, with one International win in 1998 and one tied match in 2003.

Format The first day of competition featured six foursomes matches. On the second day, six matches of four-ball were played. This was followed on Day 3 by five morning foursomes matches and five afternoon four-ball matches. On the fourth and final day, twelve singles matches were played, for a total of 34 matches in the competition.

The final day was conducted under a special rule that differed slightly from that used in other team competitions such as the Ryder Cup. Singles matches ending halved after the regulation 18 holes were to be extended to extra holes until an outright winner was determined. This format was used until one team earned the 17 points needed to win the Cup outright, at which time all remaining matches were only played to the regulation 18 holes and could be halved.

No matches went to extra holes in the 2009 competition. The first match on the final day in which all 18 holes were played was the Mike Weir–Justin Leonard match, which finished all square after 18. At that time, the U.S. Team was leading 17–10, which meant that the match should have continued. However, at the same time, the Y.E. Yang–Tiger Woods match was at the 13th hole with Woods 5 up. Instead of immediately going to the first hole to continue their match, Weir and Leonard watched the Yang–Woods match on a nearby giant screen. When Woods sank the putt that gave him a 6 and 5 victory and gave the U.S. an insurmountable 18–10 lead, Weir and Leonard, seeing that the outcome of the Cup was no longer in doubt, agreed to halve their match. (scroll to 4:35 pm post)

Teams Both teams had 12 players plus a non-playing captain. Members of the U.S. Team were selected based on earnings from the 2007 Wyndham Championship through the 2009 PGA Championship. International Team players were chosen on the basis of the Official World Golf Ranking through the 2009 PGA Championship. The International Team does not include players eligible for the European Ryder Cup Team. The top 10 players from each list made their respective teams and the captains choose the remaining two players.

United States team Player Age Pointsrank OWGR Previousappearances Matches W–L–H Winningpercentage 50 Non-playing captain 55 Non-playing assistant captain 33 1 1 5 25 13–11–1 54.00 39 2 2 7 33 11–13–9 46.97 42 3 3 2 10 5–5–0 50.00 49 4 6 3 13 7–6–0 53.85 33 5 18 1 4 2–2–0 50.00 36 6 13 3 13 8–4–1 65.38 27 7 14 0 Rookie 39 8 9 5 23 13–8–2 60.87 24 9 22 0 Rookie 37 10 38 4 18 6–10–2 38.89 29 11 17 1 5 2–3–0 40.00 27 13 25 1 5 2–3–0 40.00

International team Player Country Age Pointsrank OWGR Previousappearances Matches W–L–H Winningpercentage 54 Non-playing captain 49 Non-playing assistant captain 32 1 10 1 5 2–3–0 40.00 46 2 15 7 35 14–15–6 48.57 27 3 16 0 Rookie 40 4 21 4 20 11–7–2 60.00 39 5 23 5 25 13–10–2 56.00 40 6 28 2 9 3–3–3 50.00 39 7 31 4 19 11–7–1 60.53 38 8 32 4 19 6–11–2 36.84 37 9 30 0 Rookie 33 10 37 2 10 4–5–1 45.00 29 14 65 3 15 7–6–2 53.33 18 20 43 0 Rookie OWGR as of October 5, 2009, the last ranking before the Cup

Thursday's matches All matches were foursomes. International Results United StatesClark/Weir3 & 2Kim/MickelsonEls/Scott2 & 1Mahan/O'HairAllenby/Singh1 upCink/GloverCabrera/Villegas2 upJohnson/PerryIshikawa/Ogilvy6 & 4Stricker/WoodsGoosen/YanghalvedFuryk/Leonard 2 Foursomes 3 2 Overall 3

Friday's matches All matches were in four-ball format. International Results United StatesGoosen/Scott3 & 2Leonard/MickelsonEls/Weir2 upFuryk/KimIshikawa/Yang4 & 3O'Hair/PerryClark/Singh1 upCink/GloverAllenby/Villegas2 & 1Johnson/MahanCabrera/Ogilvy5 & 3Stricker/Woods 3 Four-ball 3 5 Overall 6

Saturday's matches

Morning foursomes International Results United StatesGoosen/Villegas5 & 3Mickelson/O'HairEls/Scott4 & 2Furyk/LeonardAllenby/SinghhalvedCink/MahanClark/Weir1 upStricker/WoodsIshikawa/Yang3 & 2Johnson/Perry 1 Foursomes 3 7 Overall 10

Afternoon four-ball International Results United StatesCabrera/Scott2 upFuryk/KimAllenby/Ogilvy2 & 1Cink/GloverEls/Weir5 & 3Johnson/LeonardIshikawa/Yang4 & 2Stricker/WoodsClark/SinghhalvedMickelson/O'Hair 2 Four-ball 2 9 Overall 12

Sunday's matches All matches featured were in singles competition.

International Results United States Villegas2 & 1 Mahan Scott4 & 3 Cink Weirhalved Leonard Allenby5 & 3 Kim Ogilvy2 & 1 Stricker Els6 & 4 O'Hair Ishikawa2 & 1 Perry Clark4 & 3 Johnson Yang6 & 5 Woods Singhhalved Glover Goosen2 & 1 Mickelson Cabrera4 & 3 Furyk 5 Singles 7 14 Overall 19

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

United States Player Points Overall Singles Foursomes FourballsStewart Cink 1.5 1–3–1 1–0–0 0–1–1 0–2–0Jim Furyk 2.5 2–2–1 0–1–0 1–0–1 1–1–0Lucas Glover 0.5 0–3–1 0–0–1 0–1–0 0–2–0Zach Johnson 2 2–3–0 0–1–0 1–1–0 1–1–0Anthony Kim 3 3–1–0 1–0–0 1–0–0 1–1–0Justin Leonard 3 2–1–2 0–0–1 1–0–1 1–1–0Hunter Mahan 2.5 2–1–1 1–0–0 0–1–1 1–0–0Phil Mickelson 4.5 4–0–1 1–0–0 2–0–0 1–0–1Sean O'Hair 2.5 2–2–1 1–0–0 1–1–0 0–1–1Kenny Perry 1 1–3–0 0–1–0 1–1–0 0–1–0Steve Stricker 4 4–1–0 0–1–0 2–0–0 2–0–0Tiger Woods 5 5–0–0 1–0–0 2–0–0 2–0–0

International Player Points Overall Singles Foursomes FourballsRobert Allenby 2.5 2–2–1 0–1–0 1–0–1 1–1–0Ángel Cabrera 1 1–3–0 1–0–0 0–1–0 0–2–0Tim Clark 2.5 2–2–1 1–0–0 0–2–0 1–0–1Ernie Els 3 3–2–0 0–1–0 1–1–0 2–0–0Retief Goosen 0.5 0–3–1 0–1–0 0–1–1 0–1–0Ryo Ishikawa 3 3–2–0 1–0–0 1–1–0 1–1–0Geoff Ogilvy 2 2–2–0 1–0–0 0–1–0 1–1–0Adam Scott 1 1–4–0 0–1–0 1–1–0 0–2–0Vijay Singh 3.5 2–0–3 0–0–1 1–0–1 1–0–1Camilo Villegas 0 0–4–0 0–1–0 0–2–0 0–1–0Mike Weir 2.5 2–2–1 0–0–1 0–2–0 2–0–0Yang Yong-eun 2.5 2–2–1 0–1–0 1–0–1 1–1–0

Notes and references

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