US lead International team at feisty Presidents Cup

South Korea's Tom Kim accused his American opponents of mediocre sportsmanship and swearing astatine him arsenic tensions flared erstwhile again astatine nan Presidents Cup successful Montreal.

The US won some of Saturday's fourballs and foursomes sessions 3-1 to move 11-7 successful beforehand of nan International squad pinch Sunday's 12 singles matches to come.

It was Tom Kim and Kim Si-woo's lucifer against Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele successful nan alternate changeable foursomes that sewage heated.

The South Korean brace had already beaten Keegan Bradley and Wyndham Clark 4&3 successful nan fourballs earlier taking connected Cantlay and Schauffele.

Two down astatine nan seventh, Tom Kim was angry that a three-foot par putt to halve nan spread was not conceded by nan Americans.

After holing nan putt, nan 22-year-old laid down his putter adjacent to nan pin to exemplify conscionable really adjacent he was.

Using their anger arsenic motivation, Tom Kim holed a 37-footer connected nan ninth earlier they levelled nan lucifer connected nan 10th.

Having fallen down again by nan 16th, Kim Si-woo produced a magnificent spot from nan unsmooth to level nan lucifer heading into nan last 2 holes. He celebrated wildly by imitating Steph Curry's 'goodnight' ceremony connected nan green.

"My favourite NBA subordinate is Steph Curry, truthful that's what I did," said Kim.

"It didn't decorativeness well, but yeah, I was excited," he added aft nan Americans had nan last, pinch Cantlay holing a birdie putt connected nan 18th to triumph nan match.

The play did not decorativeness location though. Tom Kim, who was progressive successful a spat pinch world number 1 Scottie Scheffler connected time one, accused his opponents - without specifying who - of swearing astatine him.

"As it sewage towards nan end, it sewage a small feisty retired there," he said.

"I could perceive immoderate players cursing astatine us. I don't deliberation location was bully sportsmanship there. But it's each portion of nan fun. I understand it.

"The US squad decidedly motivated america to spell retired there."

The accusation was denied by Kim's opponents.

"I felt for illustration Pat and I, we treated nan Kims pinch nan utmost respect. We're trying to quieten nan crowds down erstwhile they were hitting," said Schauffele.

"I person nary hint if anyone was doing immoderate of that. I don't judge immoderate of our guys would do thing for illustration that. So I'm not judge what he was hearing."

Cantlay said he "didn't moreover cognize what nan goodnight motion was" and was not affected by his opponents' actions.

The Americans led nan title 5-0 aft sweeping Thursday's opening matches but nan International squad wiped retired that shortage during Friday's alternate changeable foursomes.

Tom Kim and Kim Si-woo's triumph complete American Ryder Cup skipper Bradley and Clark was their only occurrence successful Saturday's fourballs.

Tony Finau and Xander Schauffele were ne'er down arsenic they hit Canadian brace Corey Conners and Mackenzie Hughes, while Scheffler holed 2 successive birdies arsenic he and Collin Morikawa hit Adam Scott and Taylor Pendrith 2&1. Cantlay and Sam Burns saw disconnected Hideki Matsuyama and Im Sung-jae.

International skipper Mike Weir kept nan aforesaid pairings for nan day foursomes, but they again registered only 1 point.

Sheffler and Russell Henley stretched nan US lead pinch a 3&2 triumph complete Matsuyama and Im but nan different 3 matches each went to nan last hole.

Pendrith and Scott won nan past to conclusion Brian Harman and Max Homa, but Morikawa and Burns edged retired Conners and Hughes by a azygous hole.

The last lucifer arrived astatine nan past tee each quadrate pinch nan Kims needing to triumph nan spread to trim nan wide shortage to 2 points, but a birdie from Cantlay and Schauffele successful adjacent acheronian claimed nan constituent and stretched nan advantage to four.

Play resumes astatine 17:00 BST pinch nan US needing 5 and a half points from Sunday's 12 singles matches to clasp nan trophy.