Xander Schauffele and Patrick Cantlay will sit out Saturday’s morning foursomes matches against the Internationals at the Presidents Cup.
The Americans carry an 8-2 lead into Saturday’s four matches, which will be followed by four afternoon fourball matches at Quail Hollow.
That matches the largest-ever US lead after two sessions in Presidents Cup history.
US captain Davis Love decided not to play Cantlay and Schauffele despite their 5-0 foursomes record in Ryder and Presidents Cups and their win in this year’s PGA’s pairs event.
“We’ve got so many guys so it’s spreading it around a little bit,” Love said of sitting out players.
Instead, Love will stick with two other winning pairs and a third hungry for its first triumph.
Multiple Major winners Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth, 2-0 this week, will face Canada’s Corey Conners and South Korea’s Im Sung-jae.
Max Homa, owner of two dramatic 1-up triumphs, will pair with Tony Finau as they did Thursday to face Australian Cam Davis and South Korean Kim Si-woo.
Top-ranked Masters champion Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns, who squandered leads late in a loss and a tie the past two days, will face South Koreans Lee Kyoung-hoon and Kim Joo-hyung.
Masters winners Hideki Matsuyama of Japan and Adam Scott of Australia, who lost 6&5 to Cantlay and Schauffele on Thursday, will reunite to face Americans Cameron Young and Collin Morikawa.
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