Branden Grace wrote his name into Presidents Cup history by becoming the only player to find himself on the losing side while boasting a perfect record from his five matches.
Of course, few golf fans are probably giving the International Team much of a chance at Medinah later this month. They are looking for only their second ever victory in the history of the event.
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What makes that all the more frustrating is how close the International Team have come to winning on a couple of occasions over the last two decades.
The most agonising loss came in South Korea back in 2015, when the entire week came down to the final match out on the course.
On that occasion, Bill Haas was able to defeat Sang-moon Bae 2up to get across the line. Interestingly, just two International players contributed more than the 2.5 points Bae won over the week.
Branden Grace and Louis Oosthuizen won all four of their matches together over the first three days.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the South Africans became the first International pairing to win four matches out of four at the Presidents Cup. Only Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker had previously achieved that feat on the American side.
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Oosthuizen ended up tying the top match in the Sunday singles with Patrick Reed to deny himself a perfect record.
But Grace’s 2&1 victory over Matt Kuchar ensured that he delivered the full five points. With Grace sent out in the penultimate match, his victory actually tied the score at 14.5-14.5.
Obviously, it was a remarkable achievement from the 38-year-old. But his record was all the more incredible because he had actually made a nightmare start to his Presidents Cup career two years earlier.
Grace lost all four of his matches at Muirfield Village in 2013. With Richard Sterne boasting exactly the same record in Ohio, it was extremely impressive that the International Team were only beaten by three points.
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A three-point loss for the Internationals at Medinah this month would be seen as a reasonable result in the eyes of many.
While Geoff Ogilvy would obviously love to see one of his players replicate Grace’s 2015 record in Illinois, he will be aware that it will take a lot more than that if he wants to become only the second International Team captain to lift the Presidents Cup in victory.
