Steve Palmer's Presidents Cup final-day preview, best bets, free golf tips

Where to watch

Sky Sports Golf, 5pm Sunday

Best bets

Xander Schauffele to win 6.14pm match
5pts 8-11 BoyleSports

Collin Morikawa to win 7.02pm match
4pts 7-10 Betfred

Kevin Kisner to win 7.14pm match
3pts 11-10 Coral, Ladbrokes

Sungjae Im top International scorer
1pt 14-1 bet365, Hills

USA to win 19-11
1pt 15-2 Betfair, Power

Story so far

American Presidents Cup captain Davis Love probably struggled to sleep after day three at Quail Hollow Club, North Carolina, with a late rally from the Internationals tightening the match.

Love will doubtless have noticed the similarities between this week and the 2012 Ryder Cup - when Europe staged a late Saturday revival to get back to only four points behind, before completing the comeback on the Sunday.

It is still highly unlikely the United States lose, but Love was American skipper for that epic Ryder Cup loss ten years ago, and the Charlotte-born legend will be fretting about again snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

The Internationals started day three as 100-1 outsiders, but ended it a best-price 20-1 after winning the day 5-3. From 8-2 behind, they moved to 11-7 behind, having won the afternoon fourballs session 3-1.

The competition concludes with 12 singles matches, starting with Justin Thomas against Si Woo Kim at 5.02pm UK and Ireland time.

Thomas and Jordan Spieth are top scorers, with four points, going into the singles. Max Homa is alone in second place with three points.

The top International points scorers are Cam Davis, Adam Scott, Si Woo Kim and Tom Kim, who all have two points. Sungjae Im and Sebastian Munoz are half a point behind.

Singles draw

5.02pm Justin Thomas v Si Woo Kim
5.14pm Jordan Spieth v Cam Davis
5.26pm Sam Burns v Hideki Matsuyama
5.38pm Patrick Cantlay v Adam Scott
5.50pm Scottie Scheffler v Sebastian Munoz
6.02pm Tony Finau v Taylor Pendrith
6.14pm Xander Schauffele v Corey Conners
6.26pm Cameron Young v Sungjae Im
6.38pm Billy Horschel v K.H Lee
6.50pm Max Homa v Tom Kim
7.02pm Collin Morikawa v Mito Pereira
7.14pm Kevin Kisner v Christiaan Bezuidenhout

Best outright prices
1-25 USA, 20 Internationals, 33 draw

Final-day preview

Davis Love is looking to kill this match off early - fielding his two most successful players first and second in the order. Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth have thrived alongside each other over the first three days. If they can produce the goods alone, too, then the States' jitters could quickly ease.

Thomas and Spieth obviously have the ability to push the scoreline from 11-7 to 13-7, taking pressure off the Americans below them in the order. But Si Woo Kim is a feisty character, seemingly revived on the greens by a switch to a broomhandle putter, so Thomas knows he has a tough job on his hands.

And Cam Davis has enjoyed a positive start to his Presidents Cup career. Spieth has never won a singles match in the Presidents Cup or the Ryder Cup. That is seven appearances without success, so the former world number one will certainly not be lacking motivation against Davis. If the Aussie starts well, Spieth's singles hoodoo may continue.

The ball-striking of Sam Burns has been disappointing this week and match three looks an excellent opportunity for the Internationals to get a full point on the board. Hideki Matsuyama has had three different partners over the first three days and the Japanese star will probably be pleased to just have his own ball to worry about. Matsuyama has lost only one of his previous four Presidents Cup singles matches. And he took the scalp of Thomas in 2017.

The other match which could go the way of the Internationals is match eight, in which Sungjae Im could get the better of Cameron Young. Im has suffered more than most at the hands of the Thomas-Spieth dream team this week, but the Korean is a formidable proposition alone. Im beat Gary Woodland 4&3 on his Presidents Cup singles debut three years ago.

Patrick Cantlay, Scottie Scheffler, Tony Finau and Xander Schauffele can be expected to give the Americans a thrust in the middle of the order, while Collin Morikawa and Kevin Kisner look like solid back-up at the tail.

The singles could end up as an 8-4 victory for the Americans, resulting in a 19-11 overall victory. That would be a repeat of the scoreline in the last Presidents Cup match staged in America.

Spieth can be slightly favoured over Thomas for top points scorer, while Im may end up pipping those ahead of him for top International. Davis, Scott, Si Woo, Tom Kim and Sebastian Munoz all have tougher Sunday assignments than Im.

The most appealing singles bets are Schauffele, Morikawa and Kisner. Corey Conners has had a miserable Presidents Cup debut, stuck on zero points, and the Canadian will be gutted with his draw for Sunday.

Schauffele has been one of the stars of 2022, lifting four trophies. His one previous Presidents Cup ended with a singles victory over Adam Scott - he beat the Aussie in Melbourne - so a home match against a rookie is a walk in the park in comparison. Conners can be an edgy character at the best of times, and is weak with putter in hand, so expect the decisive moments to go the way of Schauffele.

Morikawa will be thrilled to finally get to play his own ball, having only been used for the foursomes so far, with Young each time. They defeated K.H Lee and Tom Kim on Thursday, then lost to the Matsuyama-Scott combo on Saturday.

Morikawa, fresh for the fight, tied with Viktor Hovland last year (Ryder Cup) in his only previous experience of singles play for the States. Mito Pereira, badly out of form coming into the event and failing to make an impact, should prove easy opposition for the two-time Major champion.

Kisner can be backed at odds-against to defeat Christiaan Bezuidenhout - an offer too good to refuse. Kisner, who won the 2019 WGC-Match Play and has made the final in three of the last four editions of that tournament, relishes matchplay combat. Nervous debutant Bezuidenhout has to be the outsider.

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