Presidents Cup Rosters Set as US Chases 11th Straight Win at Medinah

The rosters for this month's Presidents Cup are set, with captains Brandt Snedeker and Geoff Ogilvy completing their picks and both teams now preparing for a September 24-27 match at Medinah Country Club outside Chicago, where the United States will chase an 11th consecutive victory in the biennial competition against a resurgent International side.

Snedeker, the U.S. captain, confirmed his six captain's selections alongside the automatic qualifiers: Scottie Scheffler, Cameron Young, Wyndham Clark, Russell Henley, Sam Burns and Collin Morikawa earned their places through the points standings, while Snedeker added Chris Gotterup, Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay, Jacob Bridgeman and 21-year-old Jackson Koivun. Gotterup, Bridgeman and Koivun will make their Presidents Cup debuts; Koivun turned professional only three months ago after leaving Auburn and has already forced his way onto the team on the strength of his rookie-season form.

"It's rare to see a player this young demonstrate the level of poise" that Koivun has shown, Snedeker said of the pick.

International team leans on youth of its own

Ogilvy, the Australian leading the International squad, announced his own six picks the same day: Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Corey Conners, Nico Echavarria, Ryo Hisatsune, Sungjae Im and Nick Taylor, three of whom — Echavarria, Hisatsune and Taylor — will be first-time participants in the event.

The International team enters Medinah trying to end one of golf's most one-sided modern rivalries. The U.S. has won ten straight Presidents Cups, most recently an 18½-11½ rout in Montreal in 2024, and the International side has managed only a single outright win, in 1998, plus a tie in 2003, since the competition began in 1994. Ogilvy's roster leans on established international stars alongside emerging talent, a mix the captain has said is designed to inject fresh energy into a team that has often struggled with the format's pressure-cooker singles and foursomes sessions.

Medinah's Course No. 3, a 7,657-yard layout with a distinctive Byzantine-domed clubhouse, has hosted five major championships and a Ryder Cup, and this year's Presidents Cup will make it the only American club to have staged a U.S. Open, a PGA Championship, a Ryder Cup and a Presidents Cup. The U.S. team also arrives with an eye on redemption after losing last fall's Ryder Cup on home soil, a defeat that several Presidents Cup selections, including Cantlay and Schauffele, experienced firsthand.

Play begins with foursomes and four-ball matches before concluding with Sunday singles, following the same match-play format used in the Ryder Cup, with 30 points total up for grabs across four days. Unlike the Ryder Cup, which pits the United States against a unified Europe, the Presidents Cup draws its International side from every golfing nation outside Europe, giving Ogilvy a roster spanning Australia, South Africa, Colombia, Japan and South Korea. That breadth has occasionally been cited as a structural disadvantage, since International players compete on different tours for most of the year and have less built-in chemistry than a Ryder Cup team drawn largely from Europe's own tour. With both rosters now finalized, attention shifts to pairings and course strategy as the teams begin practice rounds at Medinah in the days ahead.