{"id":46645,"date":"2026-09-28T10:12:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46645"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:12:30","slug":"us-roar-back-to-beat-internationals-for-11th-consecutive-presidents-cup-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-roar-back-to-beat-internationals-for-11th-consecutive-presidents-cup-win\/","title":{"rendered":"US roar back to beat Internationals for 11th consecutive Presidents Cup win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Jacob Bridgeman clinched the winning point as the \u200bUnited States (US) rallied to beat the International Team 17-13 and retain the Presidents Cup near Chicago on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Bridgeman beat Australia&#8217;s \u200cMin Woo Lee 1-up to give the Americans the 15, 1\/2 points required to secure the trophy, completing a final-day turnaround after the US began Sunday trailing 10-1\/2 to 7-1\/2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The victory was the US&#8217; 11th consecutive Presidents Cup title.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Americans improved their overall record in the biennial team event against an international side drawn \u200bfrom outside Europe to 14-1-1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The US needed eight points from 12 singles matches and received wins from Cameron Young, Justin Thomas, \u200bScottie Scheffler, Chris Gotterup, Collin Morikawa, Patrick Cantlay and Jackson Koivun before Bridgeman delivered the decisive point in his \u2060tournament debut.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":46646,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-46645","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"United State team\u2019s Jacob Bridgeman plays his shot from the fifth tee","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46647,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46645\/revisions\/46647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}