1996 Presidents Cup

Template:Short description Template:Infobox team golf tournament The 2nd Presidents Cup was held between September 13 and 15, 1996. It was played at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia, USA. The United States team won the competition by a margin of 16Template:1/2–15Template:1/2, the narrowest margin of victory (later tied by the 2015 Presidents Cup's 15Template:1/2–14Template:1/2) in Presidents Cup history. The honorary chairman was former President of the United States George H. W. Bush.

Format

Both teams had 12 players plus a non-playing captain. On the first and second day four-ball was played in the morning and foursomes were played in the afternoon. On the third day only singles were played.

Teams

Template:Flagicon United States team
Player	Age	Points rank	OWGR	Previous appearances	Matches	W–L–H	Winning percentage
	67	Non-playing captain
	26	1	9	1	5	2–1–2	60.00
	39	2	10	0	Rookie
	37	3	5	1	5	2–2–1	50.00
	35	4	23	0	Rookie
	32	5	13	1	5	4–0–1	90.00
	36	6	8	1	5	2–2–1	50.00
	40	7	20	1	4	2–1–1	62.50
	29	8	19	0	Rookie
	36	9	7	1	3	3–0–0	100.00
	24	10	28	0	Rookie
	24	11	17	0	Rookie
	36	12	26	0	Rookie

International team
Player	Country	Age	Points rank	OWGR	Previous appearances	Matches	W–L–H	Winning percentage
		67	Non-playing captain
		35	Non-playing assistant captain
		41	1	1	0	Rookie
		26	2	3	0	Rookie
	Template:Flagcountry	49	3	6	0	Rookie
		39	4	11	1	4	0–2–2	25.00
		33	5	12	1	5	2–2–1	50.00
		33	6	18	1	5	3–1–1	70.00
		36	7	29	1	5	1–3–1	30.00
		42	8	34	1	4	1–2–1	37.50
		30	9	32	1	5	2–3–0	40.00
		37	10	41	1	4	1–2–1	37.50
		25	11	37	1	5	1–4–0	20.00
		37	13	61	1	3	2–1–0	66.67

• OWGR as of September 8, 1996, the last ranking before the Cup

Friday's matches

Morning four-ball

International	Results	United States
Norman/Allenby	2 & 1	Couples/Love
Els/McNulty	2 up	Hoch/Brooks
Singh/Ozaki	2 & 1	Mickelson/Pavin
Elkington/Nobilo	3 & 2	O'Meara/Duval
Price/Senior	4 & 2	Lehman/Stricker
1	Four-Ball	4
1	Overall	4

Afternoon foursomes

International	Results	United States
Price/Frost	3 & 2	Perry/Leonard
Nobilo/Parry	2 & 1	O'Meara/Duval
Elkington/Singh	2 up	Lehman/Stricker
Els/McNulty	halved	Mickelson/Pavin
Norman/Allenby	1 up	Couples/Love
1Template:1/2	Foursomes	3Template:1/2
2Template:1/2	Overall	7Template:1/2

Saturday's matches

Morning four-ball

International	Results	United States
Price/Elkington	2 up	Leonard/Lehman
Norman/Allenby	1 up	Stricker/Pavin
Parry/Nobilo	2 & 1	Perry/Hoch
Ozaki/Singh	2 & 1	Love/Couples
Els/McNulty	4 & 3	O'Meara/Duval
3	Four-Ball	2
5Template:1/2	Overall	9Template:1/2

Afternoon foursomes

International	Results	United States
Senior/Frost	3 & 2	Pavin/Mickelson
Nobilo/Allenby	3 & 2	Love/Brooks
Price/McNulty	3 & 1	Perry/Leonard
Norman/Els	1 up	Lehman/Stricker
Elkington/Singh	1 up	O'Meara/Hoch
4	Foursomes	1
9Template:1/2	Overall	10Template:1/2

Sunday's matches

Singles

International	Results	United States
Parry	5 & 4	Brooks
Senior	3 & 2	Duval
Price	1 up	O'Meara
Frost	7 & 6	Perry
Allenby	6 & 5	Stricker
McNulty	1 up	Hoch
Ozaki	5 & 4	Love
Elkington	1 up	Leonard
Els	3 & 2	Mickelson
Norman	3 & 1	Pavin
Nobilo	3 & 2	Lehman
Singh	2 & 1	Couples
6	Singles	6
15Template:1/2	Overall	16Template:1/2

Individual player records

Each entry refers to the win–loss–half record of the player.

United States

Player	Points	Overall	Singles	Foursomes	Fourballs
Mark Brooks	0	0–3–0	0–1–0	0–1–0	0–1–0
Fred Couples	3	3–1–0	1–0–0	1–0–0	1–1–0
David Duval	4	4–0–0	1–0–0	1–0–0	2–0–0
Scott Hoch	3	3–1–0	1–0–0	1–0–0	1–1–0
Tom Lehman	1	1–4–0	0–1–0	0–2–0	1–1–0
Justin Leonard	1	1–3–0	0–1–0	1–1–0	0–1–0
Davis Love III	3	3–2–0	1–0–0	1–1–0	1–1–0
Phil Mickelson	1.5	1–2–1	0–1–0	0–1–1	1–0–0
Mark O'Meara	5	5–0–0	1–0–0	2–0–0	2–0–0
Corey Pavin	1.5	1–3–1	0–1–0	0–1–1	1–1–0
Kenny Perry	2	2–2–0	0–1–0	1–1–0	1–0–0
Steve Stricker	2	2–3–0	1–0–0	0–2–0	1–1–0

International

Player	Points	Overall	Singles	Foursomes	Fourballs
Robert Allenby	2	2–3–0	0–1–0	1–1–0	1–1–0
Steve Elkington	3	3–2–0	1–0–0	1–1–0	1–1–0
Ernie Els	3.5	3–1–1	1–0–0	1–0–1	1–1–0
David Frost	2	2–1–0	1–0–0	1–1–0	0–0–0
Mark McNulty	2.5	2–2–1	0–1–0	1–0–1	1–1–0
Frank Nobilo	2	2–3–0	1–0–0	1–1–0	0–2–0
Greg Norman	3	3–2–0	1–0–0	1–1–0	1–1–0
Masashi Ozaki	1	1–2–0	0–1–0	0–0–0	1–1–0
Craig Parry	1	1–2–0	1–0–0	0–1–0	0–1–0
Nick Price	2	2–3–0	0–1–0	1–1–0	1–1–0
Peter Senior	1	1–2–0	0–1–0	1–0–0	0–1–0
Vijay Singh	2	2–3–0	0–1–0	1–1–0	1–1–0

External links

• Official scores in 2015 Media Guide