The Presidents Cup 2024 Predictions: USA to Extend Streak

• USA has won each of the last nine Presidents Cups 

• The Internationals have won the tournament just once, in 1998

• Royal Montreal Golf Club in Quebec, Canada will host for a second time

Presidents Cup 2024 Odds

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Presidents Cup 2024 Predictions

• Back USA to win by 1-3 points at +375 with bet365

• Collin Morikawa for top US points scorer at +600 with bet365

• Hideki Matsuyama for top Internationals points scorer at +650 with bet365

Presidents Cup 2024 Intro

First contested in 1994 when the United States beat the International Team 20-12 at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Virginia, this will be the 15th edition of the Presidents Cup.

USA has dominated, winning 12 of the 14 matches including each of the last nine.

The Internationals’ only success came at Royal Melbourne, Australia in 1998 while the 2003 event at Fancourt in South Africa was tied after captains Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus agreed to shake hands with Ernie Els and Tiger Woods still tied after three playoff holes.

While history says this is far more one-sided than the Ryder Cup, the Internationals have often been competitive, especially on home soil.

That bodes well for this latest showdown at Royal Montreal in Canada even if the Americans, as always, look by far the strong team on paper.

Looking at the last two away matches for the United States, they won 16-14 back at Royal Melbourne in 2019 and edged it 15.5-14.5 in Incheon, South Korea in 2015.

Royal Montreal was also host in 2007 when Nicklaus’s team beat Gary Player’s men by a clear five-point margin, 19.5-14.5.

The format has been tweaked down the years and the current iteration still differs from the Ryder Cup which has 28 points up for grabs.

In the Presidents Cup there are 30 and the tournament is played over four days rather than three.

• Thursday: 5 x foursomes

• Friday: 5 x fourballs

• Saturday: 4 x foursomes + 4 x fourballs

• Sunday: 12 x singles 

There’s a chance of thundery showers on day one but we should see sunshine and temperatures around 70 degrees on the other three tournament days.  

Last 5 Winners of the Presidents Cup

Course Notes

• Royal Montreal is a par 70 that measures 7,279 yards

• The club was founded in 1873 and claims to be the oldest in North America

• It staged the 2007 edition, won 19.5-14.5 by Jack Nicklaus’s USA

• The parkland course was renovated by Rees Jones in 2004

• It has hosted the RBC Canadian Open 10 times, the most recent in 2014

Presidents Cup Teams and Captains

Internationals

Captain: Mike Weir

Vice captains: Ernie Els, Trevor Immelman, Geoff Ogilvy, Camilo Villegas

Team: Hideki Matsuyama, Sungjae Im, Adam Scott, Tom Kim, Jason Day, Byeong Hun An, Corey Conners, Min Woo Lee, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Taylor Pendrith, Si Woo Kim, Mackenzie Hughes

United States

Captain: Jim Furyk

Vice captains: Stewart Cink, Justin Leonard, Kevin Kisner, Brandt Snedeker

Team: Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay, Sahith Theegala, Sam Burns, Tony Finau, Russell Henley, Keegan Bradley, Brian Harman, Max Homa  

USA Too Strong

While boasting the two best players of 2024 in Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele, it’s probably fair to say that this isn’t the strongest ever United States line-up to contest a Presidents or Ryder Cup.

But Jim Furyk’s side still look to hold too many weapons for their Internationals counterparts.

Home advantage has been a big thing in recent Ryder Cups and the last two Presidents Cups to be held outside of the USA have been close - the Americans securing a two-point winning margin in Melbourne in 2019 and winning by a single point in South Korea in 2015.

But they were both a long way from home.

Montreal is a quick hop across the border and will be packed with American fans as well as home Canadian supporters.

That home advantage would appear to be negated to a large extent this time.

For balance, there are some fine players on the Internationals side and skipper Mike Weir is likely to be a canny operator.

I think we’ll get a contest so I’ll go to the Margin of Victory market and back the USA to take this by 1-3 points. 

That gives us scorelines of 15.5-14.5, 16-14 and 16.5-13.5.

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Make it Morikawa for Top USA Scorer

Scheffler at +450 and Schauffele at +550 are rightly considered to be the most likely candidates to finish as top US points scorers.

Preference would be for Schauffele as he has a natural and long-term partner in the form of Patrick Cantlay while Scheffler, who didn’t win any of his four matches in 2022 at Quail Hollow, does not.

But the one I’ll pick for top USA points scorer is Collin Morikawa.

This course suits straight hitting and Morikawa was 2nd in Driving Accuracy on the PGA Tour in 2024.

He won two of his three matches in the last Presidents Cup but I’d expect Captain Furyk, a fellow straight hitter, to lean on him much more this time.

It makes sense given that Morikawa shot the lowest 72-hole score at the TOUR Championship, finishing runner-up overall to Scheffler.

Back Morikawa to top score for the visitors at +600 with bet365.

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Matsuyama Can Lead Internationals  

With each-way betting available, it’s tempting to back one of the three home players in the top Internationals points scorer market. 

Corey Conners is +800 while Mackenzie Hughes and Taylor Pendrith are both +1400.

But I’ll go with a heavyweight and wager Hideki Matsuyama at +650 with bet365.

The Japanese star has played some brilliant golf in 2024, winning twice and also capturing an Olympic medal.

He’s the highest-ranked player on Weir’s team and there’s a good chance he gets to play in all five sessions.

Matsuyama has contested the maximum number of matches twice in his five previous Presidents Cup appearances and four out of five in the other three.

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How to Watch the Presidents Cup 2024

• Tournament: Presidents Cup 2024

• Location: Royal Montreal Golf Club, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 

• Date: Thursday, September 26 - Sunday, September 29

• How to Watch: Thursday 11.30 a.m.-6 p.m. (Golf Channel/NBC Sports App), Friday 1 p.m.-6 p.m. (Golf Channel/NBC Sports App), Saturday 7 a.m.-8 a.m. (Golf Channel/NBC Sports App), 8 a.m.-6 p.m. (NBC/Peacock), Sunday 12 p.m.-6 p.m. (NBC/Peacock) And all four days on Sky Sports.