Captain Woods elects to sit for 2nd straight session with USA trailing

USA team member Rickie Fowler (Left) and Justin Thomas celebrate winning their match as team captain Tiger Woods (Right) looks on during the Presidents Cup golf tournament in Melbourne on December 14, 2019.
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Tiger Woods will take the entire third day off at the Presidents Cup with the Americans trailing the Internationals 9-5 heading to the fourth session.

Woods elected to include himself among the four players that have to sit for the foursomes portion of the day. Tiger and Justin Thomas are the only two Americans that haven't lost or tied a match at this year's event.

Here are the pairings for Session 4:

Americans Internationals
Dustin Johnson
Gary Woodland
vs. Louis Oosthuizen
Adam Scott
Justin Thomas
Rickie Fowler
vs. Marc Leishman
Abraham Ancer
Patrick Cantlay
Xander Schauffele
vs. Cam Smith
Sungjae Im
Matt Kuchar
Tony Finau
vs. Byeong Hun An
Joaquin Niemann

The winless pair of Patrick Reed and Webb Simpson are also sitting for the Americans. Bryson DeChambeau will also miss his third straight session.

Ernie Els reunited the power duo of Louis Oosthuizen and Adam Scott. He surprisingly sent Hideki Matsuyama to the bench where the Japanese golfer will join Adam Hadwin, Haotong Li, and C.T. Pan.

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