USA sweeps 5 matches in opening session of Presidents Cup - ESPN

MONTREAL — The United States swept the opening session of the Presidents Cup on Thursday for the third time behind a feisty Scottie Scheffler, late heroics from Xander Schauffele and plenty of help from a putting-challenged International team.

The Americans are going for a 10th straight win in this lopsided series, and the Internationals didn't put up much of a fight in four-balls at Royal Montreal.

It was the first time the Americans swept the opening session since 2000, and they went on to win by a record 11 points.

Scheffler and Russell Henley never trailed in their 3-and-2 victory over Sungjae Im and Tom Kim, the spiciest match of an otherwise flat day before a quiet Canadian crowd after Mackenzie Hughes, who sat out the first session, chugged a beer on the opening tee to get them going.

Scheffler and Kim are good friends who play money games in Dallas. On the par-3 seventh hole, the 22-year-old Kim holed a putt from just inside 30 feet and did a pirouette on the green, screaming, «Let's go!»

Scheffler matched the birdie from about the same length, and the world's No. 1 player turned toward Kim and screamed: «What was that?»

It got testy on the next hole when Kim made another long birdie, celebrated wildly and then he and Im walked over to the ninth tee without even watching Scheffler putt.

«It's the same thing I would have done at home if he had made a putt… and he celebrated like that. So it's all in good fun. We enjoy competing against each other,» Scheffler said. «That's what it's like out here. It's fun to compete and fun to represent our country, and at the end of the match you take your hat off and shake hands.

»We're friends after, we're not friends during, I guess."

Much like recent history in the Presidents