PRESIDENTS CUP
Who is playing for the International Team at the 2024 Presidents Cup? Meet the 12 players
The 2024 Presidents Cup will be held at The Royal Montreal Golf Club in Montreal, Quebec, (Canada) starting on 24 September.
International Team captain Mike Weir has named fellow Canadians, Corey Conners, Taylor Pendrith and Mackenzie Hughes to his squad for this month’s Presidents Cup which will be played on Canadian soil at The Royal Montreal course.
The Canadian trio were added as captain’s picks along with South Africa’s Christiaan Bezuidenhout, South Korea’s Kim Si-woo and Australia’s Min Woo Lee to the 12-player team that will face Team USA when the tournament gets underway on 24 September running through to the 29th.
The sextet join the six automatic qualifiers previously announced: Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, Australia’s Adam Scott and Jason Day, and South Korea’s Tom Kim, Sungjae Im and Byeong Hun An.
Of the six captain’s picks, Hughes and Lee are first-time participants, with Kim making his Presidents Cup debut in 2017, and Bezuidenhout, Conners and Pendrith doing so in 2022.
Team USA also confirmed
The U.S. Team Captain Jim Furyk also selected his six players to complete the 12-player team with the veteran opting for: Keegan Bradley, Sam Burns, Tony Finau, Brian Harman, Russell Henley and Max Homa.
Furyk’s six additional players join the half dozen who had already qualified to make the team: Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay and Sahith Theegala.
Meet the International team
Presidents Cup (International team)
Player - Age - PGA Career Tour Wins
1) Corey Conners (32) - 2
2) Taylor Pendrith (33) - 1
3) Mackenzie Hughes (33) - 2
4) Christiaan Bezuidenhout (30) - 0
5) Si Woo Kim (29) - 4
6) Min Woo Lee (26) - 0
7) Hideki Matsuyama (32) - 10
8) Adam Scott (44) - 14
9) Jason Day (36) - 13
10) Tom Kim (22) - 3
11) Sungjae Im (28) - 2
12) Byeong Hun An (32) - 0
Pendrith earned the first win of his PGA Tour career at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson and had five other top-10 finishes in 2024 while advancing to the Tour Championship for the first time. Conners and Hughes each had three top-10 finishes this year.
In 2024, Bezuidenhout had a runner-up finish at The American Express, Kim had a pair of top-10 finishes and Lee enjoyed the best finishes of his PGA Tour career with matching T2 efforts at the Cognizant Classic and the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
The Presidents Cup is a biennial golf event that pits a U.S. team against a lineup of international players from outside Europe with the U.S. are 12-1-1 in the Ryder Cup-style competition with their sole loss coming at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Australia in 1998.