Huge names miss out as captains name Presidents Cup teams

Mike Weir and Jim Furyk have finalised their Presidents Cup teams for this month’s clash at Royal Montreal.

Furyk’s USA team will travel to Canada to face Weir’s International side looking for its first win since 1998 and just its second in the 30-year history of the competition.

Hideki Matsuyama, Sungjae Im, Adam Scott, Tom Kim, Jason Day and Byeong Hun An qualified automatically for the hosts, while Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay and Sahith Theegala had already earned their spots for the US side.

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Weir decided to strengthen his team with South African Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Korean Si Woo Kim, Australian Min Woo Lee, and Canadian trio Corey Conners, Mackenzie Hughes, and Taylor Pendrith.

The picks are in.

🇨🇦 Corey Conners
🇦🇺 Min Woo Lee
🇿🇦 Christiaan Bezuidenhout
🇨🇦 Taylor Pendrith
🇰🇷 Si Woo Kim
🇨🇦 Mackenzie Hughes#IntlTeam pic.twitter.com/xMw0YENKGV

— Presidents Cup International Team (@IntlTeam) September 3, 2024

Conners finished 7th in the qualification standings, Lee 9th, Bezuidenhout 10th, Pendrith 11th, Taylor 12th, Kim 14th, and Hughes 15th.

Australian Cam Davis, who finished 8th, missed out, as did Adam Hadwin, Erik van Rooyen and Ryan Fox, who finished 13th, 16th and 18th respectively.

Furyk, meanwhile, kept things simple, picking the next six in the Presidents Cup standings: Sam Burns, Tony Finau, Russell Henley, Keegan Bradley, Brian Harman and Max Homa. 

Bradley, next year’s Ryder Cup captain, will also serve as an assistant to Furyk.

“When I named Keegan as a captain’s assistant for the Presidents Cup I knew there was a chance he would play his way onto the US team,” Furyk explained. “And I can say without a doubt he did just that.

“The grit he showed in the final round in Memphis followed by the win in Denver exemplified the competitive nature he has always played with, and I know he will bring that same fire to Royal Montreal in a few weeks.”

Captain @JimFuryk’s six picks for Montreal.

Les six choix du capitaine Furyk pour l’édition à Montréal.#PresidentsCup pic.twitter.com/qe38ojFukQ

— Presidents Cup (@PresidentsCup) September 3, 2024

As it is a PGA Tour-sanctioned event, it means those contracted to LIV Golf are barred from playing, so the likes of five-time major winner Brooks Koepka and US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau cannot pull on the red, white and blue, while Cameron Smith and Joaquin Niemann will be missing for the home side. 

Also not heading to Montreal is Jordan Spieth, who has played all but one editions of the Presidents and Ryder Cups since his debut in 2013, and Justin Thomas, who last missed this competition in 2015. 

Another player staying at home is Billy Horschel, who told the Golf Channel’s Matt Adams on Tuesday morning that Furyk had told him he won’t be there.

Billy Horschel told me this morning on Fairways of Life @golfchannel that he got the ☎️ call and has not been chosen for the U.S. Presidents Cup Team pic.twitter.com/5oRamM2M4l

— MattAdamsGC/FoL (@MattAdamsFoL) September 3, 2024

2024 Presidents Cup teams in full

The players who will compete at Royal Montreal from September 24-26 are:

International

Hideki Matsuyama
Sungjae Im
Adam Scott
Tom Kim
Jason Day
Byeong Hun An
Corey Conners
Min Woo Lee
Christiaan Bezuidenhout
Taylor Pendrith
Si Woo Kim
Mackenzie Hughes

USA

Scottie Scheffler
Xander Schauffele
Collin Morikawa
Wyndham Clark
Patrick Cantlay
Sahith Theegala
Sam Burns
Tony Finau
Russell Henley
Keegan Bradley
Brian Harman
Max Homa

Alex Perry is the Associate Editor of bunkered. A journalist for more than 20 years, he has been a golf industry stalwart for the majority of his career and, in a five-year spell at ESPN, covered every sporting event you can think of. He completed his own Grand Slam at the 2023 Masters, having fallen in love with the sport at his hometown club of Okehampton and on the links of nearby Bude & North Cornwall.

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