As it happened: Tiger Woods leads US to Presidents Cup win

Thanks for following The Age's Presidents Cup blog for the past four days. It was an incredible tournament at Royal Melbourne, with the Internationals taking it up to the United States, only for Tiger Woods to lead his team to victory on day four.

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Winning US captain Tiger Woods has praised the toughness of his team for fighting back against the Internationals to win the Presidents Cup.

"I've had just the most amazing experience with all these gentlemen here," Woods said.

"We did this together. We believed in one another. We came up against a very formidable International team.

"At one point we were looking like we were going down 1-9. We flipped it, we got momentum, a couple of key half points here and there. We kept fighting.

"Our goal was to win a cup and we had to do it together and make sacrifices and we believed in one another and we did it."

Woods also paid respect to International captain Ernie Els and the Melbourne crowd, who made it difficult for the US all week.

"Ernie, we've gone back 24, 25 years now and we've been doing a long time now," Woods said.

"What Ernie did this week is truly remarkable. He's got to deal with nine different regions around the world, language barriers, culture barriers. They were in an increidble position going into today 10-8.

"Melbourne is one of the great sporting cities in all the world. It's been incredible to play infront of a tough atmosphere at times, as it should be, it's an away game for us, but we did it together. We did it as a team, we had to fight and claw and we did it."

International captain Ernie Els says he couldn't be more proud of his players but they were simply beaten by a better side on Sunday.

"These guys to the right of me [make me most proud]," Els said.

"What a team we built this week. We have a lot of young players in the team, a lot of first-timers from right around the world. We've represented nine regions from right around the world.

"We've got together and really bonded. It's been a privilege to be with you, thank you guys.

"We truly felt like we had a home game. You guys were right behind us. You are the best fans in the world.

"Tiger, OK, you got me. But we gave you a hell of a go. You guys deserve winning this cup, we gave you everything we had. You are one hell of a talented team.

"We feel that we've come a long way as a team this week. We feel we've really made a big leap in our internal team. We are getting there. We're not quite there, but we're getting there."

Adam Scott's Presidents Cup curse lives on as Tiger Woods and Patrick Reed inspired the United States to another win over the success-starved International side at Royal Melbourne, writes Adam Pengilly.

Woods led from the front as the Americans ruthlessly banked eight of an available 12 points in the Sunday singles to reel in a two-point overnight deficit. Read more here.

The Internationals came in with a 10-8 lead.

The United States finish with a 16-14 victory after six wins and four ties.

Match 19: Abraham Ancer lost three and two against Tiger Woods

Match 20: Hideki Matsuyama tied the match against Tony Finau

Match 21: C.T. Pan lost four and two against Patrick Reed

Match 22: Haotong Li lost four and three against Dustin Johnson

Match 23: Adam Hadwin tied the match against Bryson DeChambeau

Match 24: Sungjae Im won four and three against Gary Woodland

Match 25: Joaquin Niemann lost three and two against Patrick Cantlay

Match 26: Adam Scott lost two and one against Xander Schauffele

Match 27: Byeong Hun An lost two and one against Webb Simpson

Match 28: Cameron Smith won two and one against Justin Thomas

Match 29: Louis Oosthuizen tied the match against against Matt Kuchar

Match 30: Marc Leishman tied the match against Rickie Fowler

In case you missed it, this was the moment that saw the United States claim the Presidents Cup.

In case you missed it, this was the putt of the day by Adam Scott.

Check out all the highlights from the singles match between Tiger Woods and Abraham Ancer today

Marc Leishman and Rickie Fowler have rounded out the four-day tournament, tieing their singles match at Royal Melbourne.

The final overall score is 16-14 in favour of the United States. 

Stick with us for the presentations.

The scoreline is now 15.5 - 13.5 with one match still to be determined between Marc Lieshman and Rickie Fowler.

Fowler leads that match one-up heading to the 18th.