South Africa’s Christiaan Bezuidenhout has been selected as one of Geoff Ogilvy’s captain’s picks for the International Team at this year’s Presidents Cup.
International Team captain Ogilvy opted to include Bezuidenhout in his final line-up for the competition, which pits 12 American golfers against a team representing the rest of the world, excluding Europe.
The Presidents Cup will be held from 24 to 27 September at Medinah Country Club, near Chicago.
United States captain Brandt Snedeker also announced his final selections on Tuesday, choosing raw talent alongside experience as he named 21-year-old rookie Jackson Koivun among three players set to make their Presidents Cup debuts.
World number one Scottie Scheffler had already secured automatic qualification for the United States through the season rankings. Cameron Young, Wyndham Clark, Sam Burns, Russell Henley and Collin Morikawa also earned their places without needing captain’s picks.
Snedeker selected world number 70 Koivun with one of his six remaining choices. Koivun, a recent amateur champion, defeated Scheffler at the 3M Open in July to win only his third PGA Tour event as a professional.
Chris Gotterup and Jacob Bridgeman will also make their first appearances in the competition. Snedeker’s other selections were Patrick Cantlay, Xander Schauffele and Justin Thomas.
Among the notable American players left out were JJ Spaun, who won last year’s US Open, and Ben Griffin, a pick for the 2025 Ryder Cup. LIV Golf players, including Bryson DeChambeau, were not eligible for selection.
Ogilvy’s automatically qualified players include Australians Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee, South Korea’s Kim Si-woo and Tom Kim, Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, and New Zealand’s Ryan Fox, who won this year’s British Open.
His remaining captain’s picks were Canada’s Corey Connors and Nick Taylor, Bezuidenhout, Colombia’s Nico Echavarria, Japan’s Ryo Hisatsune and South Korea’s Im Sung-jae.
Donald Trump will act as honorary chairman, as is customary for the president of the country hosting the event.
“I look forward to being there, and greeting all of these fantastic athletes, on both teams,” Trump posted on social media last weekend.
The United States has dominated the Presidents Cup since its creation, winning the last 10 editions and 13 of the 15 tournaments held to date.
Europe is not involved because it competes against the United States in the Ryder Cup, the longer-established and traditionally more competitive team event.
The two competitions use broadly similar formats, with several forms of matchplay golf. The Presidents Cup is played over four days, while the Ryder Cup takes place over three.
