2003 Presidents Cup Explained

Presidents Cup
Year:	2003
Venue:	Fancourt Hotel and Country Club Links Course
Location:	George, Western Cape, South Africa
Dates:	20–23 November 2003
Home:	International
Away:	USA
Homecaptain:	Gary Player
Awaycaptain:	Jack Nicklaus
Homescore:	17
Awayscore:	17
Result:	A Tie in

The 2003 Presidents Cup was held 20–23 November 2003 at the Links Course at Fancourt Hotel and Country Club in George, Western Cape, South Africa. The United States and International team tied the competition 17–17, and after three tied playoff holes between Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, it was decided that the Cup would be shared by agreement of the captains and players. The honorary chairman was South African President Thabo Mbeki. The event was originally scheduled to be held in autumn 2002 before the 2001 Ryder Cup was postponed to 2002 due to the September 11 attacks in the United States.

Format

Both teams had 12 players and a non-playing captain. The competition was four days long with 34 matches worth a single point each. Six foursome matches were played on the first day. On the second day, five four-ball matches were played in the morning and five foursome matches were played in the afternoon. On the third day, six four-ball matches were played. The competition concluded with twelve singles matches on the final day.

Teams

International team
Player	Country	Age	data-sort-type="number"	Points rank !	data-sort-type="number"	OWGR !	data-sort-type="number"	Previous appearances !	data-sort-type="number"	Matches !	data-sort-type="number"	W–L–H !	data-sort-type="number"	Winning percentage
		68	Non-playing captain
		43	Non-playing assistant captain
		34	1	3	3	15	6–7–2	46.67
		40	2	2	4	20	9–9–2	50.00
		33	3	6	1	5	3–2–0	60.00
		46	4	12	4	19	6–9–4	42.11
		34	5	7	1	5	2–3–0	40.00
		32	6	18	3	14	4–10–0	28.57
		34	7	35	0	Rookie
		36	8	40	0	Rookie
		23	9	22	0	Rookie
		32	10	15	2	7	2–4–1	35.71
		33	11	19	0	Rookie
		27	16	70	0	Rookie

United States team
Player	Age	data-sort-type="number"	Points rank !	data-sort-type="number"	OWGR !	data-sort-type="number"	Previous appearances !	data-sort-type="number"	Matches !	data-sort-type="number"	W–L–H !	data-sort-type="number"	Winning percentage
	63	Non-playing captain
	46	Non-playing assistant captain
	27	1	1	2	10	5–5–0	50.00
	39	2	4	4	19	12–5–2	68.42
	33	3	5	2	8	4–4–0	50.00
	36	4	9	0	Rookie
	43	5	8	1	4	2–2–0	50.00
	33	6	13	4	18	6–7–5	47.22
	31	7	16	2	8	1–6–1	18.75
	35	8	28	0	Rookie
	36	9	30	0	Rookie
	24	10	21	0	Rookie
	47	11	34	0	Rookie
	49	12	26	1	5	3–2–0	60.00

OWGR as of 16 November 2003, the last ranking before the Cup

Thursday's matches

All matches played were foursomes.

width=160	International	Results	width=160	United States
Price/Weir	1 up	Toms/Mickelson
Goosen/Singh	3 & 2	DiMarco/Kelly
Lonard/Clark	4 & 2	Love/Perry
Els/Scott	1 up	Leonard/Furyk
Allenby/Leaney	halved	Haas/Funk
Appleby/Choi	4 & 3	Woods/Howell
3	Foursomes	2
3	Overall	2

Friday's matches

Morning four-ball

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Allenby/Weir	3 & 1	Mickelson/Toms
Goosen/Choi	2 & 1	Perry/Love
Appleby/Scott	6 & 5	Furyk/Haas
Singh/Price	1 up	DiMarco/Leonard
Els/Clark	5 & 3	Woods/Howell
2	Four-Ball	3
5	Overall	5

Afternoon foursomes

width=160	International	Results	width=160	United States
Choi/Lonard	2 & 1	Perry/Kelly
Allenby/Leaney	4 & 3	Funk/Toms
Clark/Goosen	1 up	Woods/Howell
Els/Scott	1 up	DiMarco/Mickelson
Singh/Weir	5 & 4	Furyk/Leonard
1	Foursomes	4
6	Overall	9

Saturday's matches

All matches played were four-ball.

width=160	International	Results	width=160	United States
Lonard/Leaney	2 & 1	Funk/Mickelson
Els/Clark	3 & 2	Furyk/Haas
Scott/Choi	5 & 4	Perry/Kelly
Singh/Goosen	2 & 1	Woods/Howell
Weir/Allenby	1 up	DiMarco/Leonard
Price/Appleby	2 & 1	Love/Toms
6	Four-Ball	0
12	Overall	9

Sunday's matches

Singles

width=160	International	Results	width=160	United States
Weir	3 & 1	Furyk
Clark	1 up	Kelly
Price	1 up	Perry
Choi	4 & 2	Leonard
Scott	5 & 4	Howell
Leaney	4 & 3	Haas
Goosen	2 & 1	Mickelson
Lonard	4 & 3	Funk
Appleby	1 up	DiMarco
Singh	4 & 3	Toms
Els	4 & 3	Woods
Allenby	halved	Love
4	Singles	7
17	Overall	17

Individual player records

Each entry refers to the win–loss–half record of the player.

International

Points	Overall	Singles	Foursomes	Fourballs
3	2–1–2	0–0–1	0–1–1	2–0–0
1	1–3–0	0–1–0	0–1–0	1–1–0
2	2–3–0	1–0–0	0–2–0	1–1–0
2	2–3–0	0–1–0	0–2–0	2–0–0
4	4–1–0	0–1–0	2–0–0	2–0–0
3	3–2–0	1–0–0	1–1–0	1–1–0
1.5	1–2–1	0–1–0	0–1–1	1–0–0
2	2–2–0	1–0–0	0–2–0	1–0–0
2	2–2–0	0–1–0	1–0–0	1–1–0
3	3–2–0	0–1–0	2–0–0	1–1–0
3	3–2–0	1–0–0	1–1–0	1–1–0
3	3–2–0	0–1–0	1–1–0	2–0–0

United States

Points	Overall	Singles	Foursomes	Fourballs
2	2–3–0	1–0–0	0–2–0	1–1–0
1.5	1–2–1	0–1–0	1–0–1	0–1–0
3	3–2–0	1–0–0	1–1–0	1–1–0
2.5	2–1–1	1–0–0	0–0–1	1–1–0
3	3–2–0	1–0–0	2–0–0	0–2–0
2	2–2–0	1–0–0	1–1–0	0–1–0
2	2–3–0	0–1–0	1–1–0	1–1–0
2.5	2–1–1	0–0–1	1–0–0	1–1–0
0	0–5–0	0–1–0	0–2–0	0–2–0
4	4–1–0	1–0–0	2–0–0	1–1–0
1	1–4–0	0–1–0	1–1–0	0–2–0
3	3–2–0	1–0–0	2–0–0	0–2–0

External links

Official scores

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