Jersey City 

Location in the United States

Liberty National 
Golf Club 

Location in New Jersey

Liberty 
Nat'l GC 

Location near New York City

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.^[1]

The United States were the defending champions and retained the trophy.^[2][3]

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^[4]

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

Format

The first two days consist of five matches of foursomes and five matches of fourball. The third day consists of four matches of foursomes and four matches of fourball. The host team captain decides the order, fourball vs. foursomes, on the first three days. On the fourth and final day, twelve singles matches will be played. Thirty matches will be played in all. All matches that are all-square after 18 holes will score 1⁄2 point for each team.

Team qualification and selection

Both teams have 12 players.

United States team

The United States team features 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 are weighted the same as WGC events. The captain's picks were announced on September 6, 2017.^[5]

The final standings were:^[6]

International team

The International team features 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.^[5]

The final standings were:^[7]

Teams

Captains

Steve Stricker is captain of the U.S. team, and Nick Price is captain of the International team.

Fred Couples, Davis Love III, Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk are captain's assistants for the U.S. team, and Ernie Els, Tony Johnstone, Geoff Ogilvy and Mike Weir are captain's assistants for the International team.^[8]

Players

United States team
Player	Age	Points rank	OWGR	Previous appearances	Matches	W–L–H	Winning percentage
Dustin Johnson	33	1	1	2	9	4–4–1	50.00
Jordan Spieth	24	2	2	2	9	5–4–0	55.56
Justin Thomas	24	3	4	0	Rookie
Rickie Fowler	28	4	8	1	4	1–3–0	25.00
Daniel Berger	24	5	25	0	Rookie
Brooks Koepka	27	6	11	0	Rookie
Kevin Kisner	33	7	24	0	Rookie
Patrick Reed	27	8	20	1	4	1–2–1	37.50
Matt Kuchar	39	9	12	3	13	4–7–2	38.46
Kevin Chappell	31	10	26	0	Rookie
Charley Hoffman	40	11	23	0	Rookie
Phil Mickelson	47	15	30	11	51	23–16–12	56.86

International team
Player	Country	Age	Points rank	OWGR	Previous appearances	Matches	W–L–H	Winning percentage
Hideki Matsuyama	Japan	25	1	3	2	9	3–4–2	44.44
Jason Day	Australia	29	2	7	3	15	4–8–3	36.67
Adam Scott	Australia	37	3	22	7	35	13–17–5	44.29
Louis Oosthuizen	South Africa	34	4	21	2	10	5–3–2	60.00
Marc Leishman	Australia	33	5	16	2	8	3–4–1	43.75
Charl Schwartzel	South Africa	33	6	27	3	14	6–7–1	46.43
Branden Grace	South Africa	29	7	42	2	9	5–4–0	55.56
Kim Si-woo	South Korea	22	8	39	0	Rookie
Jhonattan Vegas	Venezuela	33	9	38	0	Rookie
Adam Hadwin	Canada	29	10	47	0	Rookie
Emiliano Grillo	Argentina	25	11	60	0	Rookie
Anirban Lahiri	India	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 has played in all twelve Presidents Cups.

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 31⁄2 to 11⁄2 lead heading into the second day of competition.^[9][10]

Friday's fourball matches

The Americans started the day leading 31⁄2 to 11⁄2. 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.

Saturday's matches

Morning foursomes

Afternoon fourball

Sunday's singles matches

Individual player records

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

United States

International