Jim Furyk has clear message in response to rival team's wild celebrations at Presidents Cup

The United States raced into a 5-0 lead after Thursday's fourballs, but lost all five foursomes matches on Friday to leave the Presidents Cup on a knife edge heading into day three

Jim Furyk, the captain of Team USA, has urged his players to use the International team's exuberant celebrations as fuel for their motivation following a remarkable comeback at the Presidents Cup.

The Americans stormed to a 5-0 lead at Royal Montreal during Thursday's fourballs, but were brought back down to earth by Mike Weir's spirited international squad in Canada on Friday. The US's poor foursomes record continued, losing all five matches and evening the contest at 5-5 ahead of Saturday's action.

Friday's rout by the International team was even more impressive than the American's triumph on Thursday, with Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele suffering a 7&6 defeat to Hideki Matsuyama and Sungjae Im in the top match before Sahith Theegala and Collin Morikawa were beaten 5&4 by Adam Scott and Taylor Pendrith.

Wyndham Clark and Tony Finau also had a dismal day, losing 5&6 to home favourites Corey Conners and Mackenzie Hughes. Even world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler couldn't secure a point for the Americans, as he and Russell Henley were defeated one up by Si Woo Kim and Ben An.

Max Homa and Bryan Harman lost by the same score to Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Jason Day on a momentous day in Montreal, which was concluded by Kim at the last. The South Korean drained a long putt to secure the fifth point of the day and ignite massive celebrations on the 18th green in front of a roaring crowd.

Furyk urged his players to use the moment as motivation for Saturday's matches. "We're going to have to get ready for tomorrow, we've got a tough match on our hands," he told Golf Channel. "I think they're well aware of the challenge. We got to watch them jump about on the green and celebrate.

"I hope that sticks with everyone, I hope it's a pit in their stomach tonight. We'll regroup and get some good pairings out there in the morning and it's our turn to come out firing."

The International team was dismissed by many pundits after Thursday's play, with several lamenting the absence of LIV Golf stars such as Cameron Smith and Joaquin Niemann from the PGA Tour-run event. However, Mike Weir's men silenced their critics in an extraordinary fashion, and Furyk conceded his team couldn't keep up.

"I said it last night, their backs against the wall, they have to come out firing," he said. "They weren't happy about what happened yesterday, and I knew we'd get a big push early."

"Usually, you see some momentum swings in this, and we weren't able to turn the momentum today. When I look at the scores, it might not necessarily be about us not playing as well as we liked, they played a lot of great golf my hat is off to them."