Saturday's Presidents Cup Foursomes Teams Have One Interesting Omission

Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele have never lost in foursomes but are not on the U.S. roster for Saturday morning. The U.S. has a comfortable lead, 8-2.

CHARLOTTE, N.C — If this were a closer competition, you could easily second-guess Davis Love III on his decision to sit Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay on Saturday morning at the Presidents Cup.

The duo is 2-0 so far at Quail Hollow as the Americans lead the Internationals 8-2 after 10 matches.

But more interesting: Schauffele and Cantlay are 5-0 in foursomes going back to the 2019 Presidents Cup, where they won both their matches in the format at Royal Melbourne. They won both their foursomes matches last year at Whistling Straits in the Ryder Cup. And again on Thursday here.

If you wanted to quibble and were talking about giving guys a break on Saturday, perhaps you’d sit Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas in foursomes and put out Schauffele and Cantlay.

With a healthy advantage, such scrutiny is more interesting than it is controversial.

Four players sit out each session on Saturday, and Love had to put somebody on the bench. Tony Finau and Collin Morikawa will be back after sitting out Friday.

Saturday is a long day, with four foursomes matches starting at 7:12 a.m. followed by four four-ball matches beginning at approximately 12:05 p.m.

Love is putting out three teams that have already played together while International captain Trevor Immelman has four of his five teams from Thursday’s foursomes.

Saturday morning's foursomes (times ET): 

• 7:12 a.m.: Sungjae Im-Corey Conners (Int.) vs. Spieth-Thomas (U.S.)
• 7:24 a.m.: Adam Scott-Hideki Matsuyama (Int.) vs. Cam Young-Morikawa (U.S.)
• 7:36 a.m.: K.H. Lee-Tom Kim (Int.) vs. Scottie Scheffler-Sam Burns (U.S.)
• 7:48 a.m.: Si Woo Kim-Cam Davis (Int.) vs. Tony Finau-Max Homa (U.S.)

Sitting out for the Americans: Cantlay, Schauffele, Billy Horschel and Kevin Kisner.

Sitting out for the Internationals: Christiian Berzuidenhout, Carlos Munoz, Taylor Pendrith and Mito Pereira.

The Americans are more than halfway to the 15.5 points needed for victory.

Sunday will have 12 singles matches.