In less than 50 days, the 2026 Presidents Cup will get underway at Medinah Country Club, where the U.S.team will look to defeat the Internationals for the 11th straight time.
Snedeker, the captain of the U.S.side, will have six of his 12 players selected for him via automatic qualifying, and then comes the inevitable difficult decisions surrounding his six captain's picks to round out his team.With the Presidents Cup being both entirely lopsided and a gargantuan rung below the Ryder Cup on the ladder of significance, there is always pressure for a youth movement to be embraced by the U.S.
team.Snedeker may be facing that pressure more than any other captain in the Cup's 30-year history, but he isn't succumbing to it, at least not yet.Captain's Assistant Brandt Snedeker of the U.S.
Team looks on during Sunday Singles on day four of the 2024 Presidents Cup at The Royal Montreal Golf Club on September 29, 2024 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.(Photo by Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images) (Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images)OUTKICK IS NOW ON THE FOX APP: CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOADThose pressures of bringing the 'kids' along to Medinah became as obvious as ever before over the past two weeks with 21-year-old Jackson Koivun winning the 3M Open in just his third start as a professional and 24-year-old Michael Thorbjornsen winning the Rocket Classic for his maiden PGA Tour victory.Given Koivun's insanely impressive amateur and college career at Auburn and his nearly-immediate win on Tour, much of the golf world went ahead and wrote his name in Sharpie to be named to the Presidents Cup team.
Thorbjornsen's name has been penciled in, although he's been sneakily fantastic in his short PGA Tour career.Jackson Koivun of the United States walks to the 18th green during the final round of the 3M Open 2026 at TPC Twin Cities on July 26, 2026 in Blaine, Minnesota.(Photo by Andrew Wevers/Getty Images) (Andrew Wevers/Getty Images)Snedeker played a practice round with Koivun ahead of this week's Wyndham C...