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The 2022 Presidents Cup is quickly approaching as both the United States and International teams will round out their respective squads with the announcement of captains’ selections next week before competing at Quail Hollow Club Sept. 22-25. While Davis Love III and the U.S. side has been thrown a single off-speed pitch — Will Zalatoris’ back injury not allowing him to play — International captain Trevor Immelman has faced nothing except a heavy dose of curveballs.
With LIV Golf’s recent acquisition of Australians Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman as well as Chilean Joaquin Niemann, the International team has lost two automatic qualifiers and a possible veteran presence if Leishman was to be selected. No long eligible in addition to a stable of South Africans, Immelman has had to be quick on his feet and think through every scenario imaginable.
“I would be a bad captain if I wouldn’t have been ready for all sorts of obstacle and adversity,” Immelman told the First Cut Podcast.
“I have been working the phones like crazy over the last six or eight months. Players, agents, caddies, all sorts, journalists just trying to figure out exactly what is going on, get a bead on where everybody is at, trying to learn as much as I can about the process so that I can in turn put our squad and eventually our team in the best position possible to try to and have some kind of chance against a team that is coming to Charlotte with a ton of confidence.”
International team automatic qualifiers
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Hideki Matsuyama |
Japan |
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Sungjae Im |
South Korea |
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Tom Kim |
South Korea |
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Corey Conners |
Canada |
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Mito Pereira |
Chile |
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Adam Scott |
Australia |
There has been plenty of discussion recently around the grind that is the PGA Tour. Whether it is scheduling, traveling, not seeing families and friends, but the grind of captaining a Presidents Cup has hardly been of conversation. Immelman has been thrusted into an impossible situation, facing a new…
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