{"id":1641352,"date":"2022-09-14T18:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T22:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641352"},"modified":"2022-09-14T18:38:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T22:38:39","slug":"golf-canadas-conners-primed-for-daunting-presidents-cup-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/golf-canadas-conners-primed-for-daunting-presidents-cup-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Canada\u2019s Conners primed for daunting Presidents Cup challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgolf-canadas-conners-primed-for-daunting-presidents-cup-challenge%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641352&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>(Reuters) \u2013     Canada\u2019s Corey Conners said the sting of missing out on the 2019 Presidents Cup motivated him to play his way onto this year\u2019s team and looks forward to the tough task of trying to help his International squad upset the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Conners was strongly considered as a captain\u2019s pick in 2019 but left nothing to chance this year as he upped his game and was an automatic selection after finishing the PGA Tour season fourth on the international team standings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really close to making the team in 2019 in Australia and stung a little bit to not make the team,\u201d Conners told reporters on Wednesday ahead the PGA Tour\u2019s season-opening Fortinet Championship in Napa, California.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely motivated me to keep working hard to make sure I earned my spot on the team this time around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conners is coming off a season in which he had four top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour and qualified for the season-ending playoffs where he finished 26th in the Tour Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidents Cup pits a U.S. team against international players from outside Europe. The United States have dominated the competition, winning on 11 of the 13 occasions it has been held, including each of the last eight.<\/p>\n<p>It could be a familiar scene next week at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, where a 12-man International team that was decimated by a wave of LIV Golf defections will try to pull off an upset of epic proportions.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. team features five of the world\u2019s top 10 players, including world number one and reigning PGA Tour Player of the Year Scottie Scheffler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely got a challenge ahead of us, the International Team, but we\u2019ve got a young team, we\u2019re all hungry and it will be fun,\u201d said Conners.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old world number 25 has no past success at Quail Hollow to draw from but still considers it one of his favourite courses on tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHas a bit of an Augusta (National) feel to it, beautifully manicured and great shape to some of the holes, a little bit up and down, but I\u2019ve always really loved that golf course,\u201d said Conners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaven\u2019t had any great finishes there, but I think it sets up well for my game.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?attachment_id=2748997\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8D13D-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8D13D-VIEWIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) \u2013 Canada\u2019s Corey Conners said the sting of missing out on the 2019 Presidents Cup motivated him to play his way onto this year\u2019s team and looks forward to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}