How is Steve Stricker to stay in the presidents cup golf hunt?”
Hope springs eternal or it did in the International team room at Harding Park. Greg Norman’s underdogs finished strongly to stay within a point of the United States, at 6½-5½, after two days of the Presidents Cup. It had looked as if the home team might render the weekend a formality but a series of terrific shots from Mike Weir and Tim Clark among others down the closing holes meant the day’s six fourball matches were shared, three each. The American captain, Fred Couples, gave credit to his entire team but, if they win tomorrow, the first hands he shakes might be those of Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker, who have won two easy points in two days, and Phil Mickelson, who has played better than anyone in the field while carrying two partners to victory. Yesterday it was the turn of Justin Leonard – a villain on Thursday for missing a tiddler on the final green. This time he holed a handful of crucial putts, not least on the 1st. The home team went on to take an early lead in five of the
