Beating US in Presidents would be the pinnacle: Ogilvy
International team captain’s assistant Geoff Ogilvy said defeating the US at this week’s Presidents Cup would be “the pinnacle of the sport.”
“We don’t hate the other team,” the Australian said at the Royal Montreal Golf Club in Quebec, Canada.
“We want to win because they’re the hardest team to beat in the world. It’s the pinnacle of sport. To beat the US Team in an event like this is the pinnacle of the sport,” said Ogilvy who is joined by Ernie Els, Trevor Immelman, Camilo Villegas and Shigeki Maruyama on captain Mike Weir’s staff.
The 15th edition of the Presidents Cup gets underway on Thursday with five fourball (better ball) matches.
The Americans are 12-1-1 in the all-time series and have never lost on home soil, with the International team’s lone win coming in 1998 at Royal Melbourne.
Ogilvy played in that match winning 3.5 points. It was his third of three Presidents Cup appearances, the first being at this year’s venue in 2007, and he ended with a 7-6-1 record.
Ogilvy addressed the challenge of beating a US squad featuring World No.1 Scottie Scheffler and No.2 Xander Schauffele.
“If we can bring a group of guys from around the world and come and beat them, I can’t imagine anything better than that,” he said. “So it’s more of a we want to win because of the respect we have for the other team, rather than a hate.”
“This time, I feel we’ve got a new identity, and the guys have really bought into that,” Els said. “We’re on a path to ending our drought, hopefully this week.”
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