Taylor Pendrith mentioned it first: His fellow Canadians “must get louder.”
Then Tom Kim took the mic.
“I feel it was a little bit too quiet at this time being on dwelling soil,” mentioned Kim, who, like his Worldwide teammates, was nonetheless licking his wounds after a 5-0 U.S. sweep of the opening four-ball session at this Presidents Cup.
“I don’t assume the followers had been actually – I want they might have helped us out a bit extra, particularly being in Canada. I understand how a lot they love golf. I’m undoubtedly anticipating extra crowds to be louder and for them to be on our facet.”
Kim offered two of the few dwelling roars on Thursday round Royal Montreal, buying and selling birdie bombs with world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler on the seventh gap earlier than including one other of his personal to win the subsequent gap. However he and associate Sungjae Im ultimately fell, 3 and a pair of, in what was essentially the most lopsided match of the day.
“These boys performed nice at this time,” Kim added, “however undoubtedly for our workforce, it type of felt like I performed nice, so being quick type of sucks. However we’ll work out a method.”
Kim, nonetheless, will be part of the cheerleaders on Friday; he’s sitting the primary foursomes session.
“That was a part of the plan,” Worldwide captain Mike Weir mentioned of Kim’s benching. “It was not a change after or something. We’ve a plan for four-ball, and we’ve a plan for foursomes. Tom wasn’t within the plans for [Friday], however doesn’t imply he may not be down the highway. We’re sticking with the plan.”
