Internationals Li, Pan make Presidents Cup
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The International team for December’s Presidents Cup will have at least four first-time players, after Mexico’s Abraham Ancer, China’s Li Haotong, CT Pan of Chinese Taipei and Australian Cameron Smith all qualified for the team on Sunday.
Ancer, Li and Pan will become the first players from their respective countries to compete in the biennial event against the United States, which has dominated the competition since its inception in 1994.
Xander Schauffele, Bryson DeChambeau and Patrick Cantlay will be rookies in the Tiger Woods-captained American team.
This year’s event will be held at Royal Melbourne in Australia, where the Internationals recorded their lone victory in 1998.
The eight automatic qualifiers for both teams were finalized on Sunday after the BMW Championship in suburban Chicago.
Pan, 27, who enjoyed a maiden PGA Tour win at the RBC Heritage in April, finished tied 31 after ending the week with a level-par 72 at Medinah Country Club’s No. 3 Course. He needed to finish 12th or better to advance into the final week of the season where the FedEx Cup champion will bag US$15 million.
Australian Jason Day was the most prominent player to miss the International automatic spots, while Tony Finau, who needed to finish no worse than solo third at the BMW Championship to make the American team, finished fourth.
Day and Finau can still make their respective teams, however, because captains Ernie Els and Woods will each make four wildcard picks in November.
Woods has not ruled out choosing himself.
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