'It got a little feisty' - US lead Presidents Cup

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

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

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

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

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

After holing the putt, the 22-year-old laid down his putter adjacent to the pin to exemplify conscionable however adjacent helium was.

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

Having fallen down again by the 16th, Kim Si-woo produced a magnificent spot from the unsmooth to level the lucifer heading into the last 2 holes. He celebrated wildly by imitating Steph Curry's 'goodnight' solemnisation connected the 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," helium added aft the Americans had the last, with Cantlay holing a birdie putt connected the 18th to triumph the match.

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

"As it got towards the end, it got a small feisty retired there," helium said.

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

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

The accusation was denied by Kim's opponents.

"I felt similar Pat and I, we treated the Kims with the utmost respect. We're trying to quieten the 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 bash thing similar that. So I'm not definite what helium was hearing."

Cantlay said helium "didn't adjacent cognize what the goodnight motion was" and was not affected by his opponents' actions.

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

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

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

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

Sheffler and Russell Henley stretched the US pb with a 3&2 triumph implicit Matsuyama and Im but the different 3 matches each went to the last hole.

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

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

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