2026 Presidents Cup Friday Results: International Sweep Opens 7–3 Lead

The International Team won Friday's five foursomes matches at Medinah, changing a 3–2 opening-day deficit into a 7–3 advantage over the United States.

Friday, September 25 recap. The tournament ended on September 27 with a 17–13 U.S. victory. See the final result and teams.

All Five Friday Foursomes Results

The session score was International 5, United States 0. Added to Thursday's International 2, United States 3, that produces the four-point gap at the end of the second day.

The Tight Matches Made the Sweep Possible

Two matches reached the final hole. The AP account describes Taylor rescuing the Canadian pairing with an approach close to the flag at the eighteenth, before Burns missed the birdie attempt that could have halved their match. Fox's late birdies helped turn the other narrow contest in the Internationals' favor.

Those finishes matter to the interpretation of the result. A clean sweep is emphatic, but two points came from matches decided by just one hole. It would be a mistake to treat the aggregate score as proof that every American pairing was comprehensively outplayed. The table shows a mixture of close finishes and earlier victories.

Why the 2024 Comparison Needs Context

PGA TOUR's report notes that the International Team also swept Friday foursomes at Royal Montreal in 2024. The important difference is the starting position: that earlier sweep restored parity at 5–5. At Medinah, winning two opening-day points first meant Friday's result created an outright lead.

That distinction changes the weekend arithmetic, but it does not decide the winner. A team can celebrate a completed session while still needing substantial points from the remaining matches. Historical comparisons are useful context; they cannot substitute for the results of the competition in progress.

What the Weekend Arithmetic Looked Like

At this Friday checkpoint, ten of the competition's thirty points had been awarded. Saturday's two sessions offered eight more points, and Sunday's twelve singles offered the remaining twelve. In other words, two-thirds of the available points were still to be decided.

From Friday's totals, reaching the winning mark of 15.5 required another 8.5 points for the Internationals or 12.5 for the Americans. The International side could therefore afford to lose the remaining sessions 11.5–8.5 and still win the Cup. The United States needed to take more than three-fifths of the remaining points to overturn the deficit.

How to Read the Scores

In foursomes, partners alternate strokes with one ball. A margin of “3 and 2” means the winning side led by three holes with only two remaining; it is not a three-stroke margin. Every won match contributes one team point regardless of how early it ends. A tied match contributes half a point to each side.

The event's official FAQ also distinguishes its tie rule from the Ryder Cup: if the overall competition finishes level after singles, the Presidents Cup is shared. Readers following Sunday's conclusion should therefore distinguish an outright victory from an overall tie.

Friday's pairings brought together experienced partners and players still building their Presidents Cup records. The 2026 team rosters list all twelve players on each side, while the Medinah session schedule shows how the four-ball, foursomes and singles sessions were arranged across the four competition days.