The Presidents Cup pits the best USA players up against the best rest-of-world talent excluding Europe.
Today, we take a look at the seven best Presidents Cup pairings in the history of the match, with all seven contributing at least four points.
⛳ Branden Grace and Louis Oosthuizen (Team International): The South Africans are the International Team’s most successful partnership in history despite only playing together in two editions of the match.
Grace and Oosthuizen played seven matches in 2015 and 2017 and won five, tied one and lost one.
⛳ Fred Couples and Davis Love III (Team US): This pair of former world number ones are the US’ most successful Presidents Cup pairing and, along with Grace and Oosthuizen, are the only team to win over 5 points in the match’s history.
They won 5.5 points from eight games across the 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2005 editions. They won their one and only foursomes match and played seven of their eight games in the four balls, winning 4.5 points.
⛳ Patrick Reed and Jordan Spieth (Team US): Texans Patrick Reed and Jordan Spieth were the US’ go-to pairing between the 2015 and 2017 Presidents Cups.
They won 4.5 points from their five games together in 2015 and 2017, including going 2 out of 2 in foursomes and winning 2.5 points from three four ball match-ups.
⛳ Steve Stricker and Tiger Woods (Team US): Good friends Steve Stricker and Tiger Woods were a frequent pairing in the Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup, and they won an impressive four of their five games together in the US vs Internationals match.
They won two of their three foursomes games and went undefeated in four ball with two wins from two.
⛳ Rickie Fowler and Justin Thomas (Team US): Fowler and Thomas played five games together in 2017 at Liberty National and in 2019 at Royal Melbourne, going unbeaten.
They won one and halved two in their three foursomes matches and went 2 out of 2 in four balls.
