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Charles Howell

In 1998, the International team romped to a nine point victory and two years later were thumped by ten, rendering most of the singles matches obsolete.

But with a fired up United States team vowing to come out guns a-lazing after suffering a 6-0 whitewash in Saturday's four-balls matches, this championship is far from over.

"The best thing about today (Saturday) is that today doesn't matter. Tomorrow matters." said rookie Jerry Kelly after his and Kenny Perry's 5 and 4 trouncing at the hands of Adam Scott and K.J. Choi.

"Tomorrow is where you win the Cup or lose the Cup. They (the Internationals) put themselves in position today but they haven't won the Cup. That's the bottom line."

"You've got to play four days, just like any other tournament, and if they don't think we're going to going to be fired up and coming off a drumming like we took today, they can go ahead and take it easy tomorrow!"

"There are going to be some fired up individuals tomorrow," confirmed Chris DiMarco.

There will be no resting on laurels from the Internationals either, who need five points from Sunday's 12 matches to deny US captain Jack Nicklaus the Presidents Cup trophy for the second time.

"It's going to be a tough one tomorrow. The team that is down comes out strong the next day so (we have to) hang in there," said Vijay Singh, who was victorious with Retief Goosen on Saturday.

All eyes will be on the penultimate match in which Ernie Els, the only man to have won all four of his matches this week, faces World No. 1 and nemesis Tiger Woods.

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