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The trio of Australians in the Presidents Cup are all going out early in the opening fourballs with International Team captain Mike Weir leading with Jason Day.
Australia's Jason Day will lead out the International team as they begin their attempt to win the Presidents Cup for the first time in 26 years.
Day will partner South Korea's Byeong Hun An in the opening fourball at Royal Montreal, lining up against world No.2 Xander Schauffele and Tony Finau.
Captain Mike Weir is then sending out the other Australians in the team, Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee, who will be up against Collin Morikawa and Sahith Theegala.
"The Australians, Min's obviously a powerful player and so is Adam," Weir said.
"The guys just get along really well ... Adam's mentored him a little bit as well and they're just a great fit, they just really like each other."
Lee was relishing the prospect of his first Presidents Cup.
"The camaraderie has been amazing, I really love these type of tournaments," Lee said.
"We're all playing some solid golf ... hopefully we can give it a good run.
"I hang out with Jason and Adam a lot and they're the veterans of the group, they keep me level-headed a little bit."
Lee's level-headed mentally doesn't apply to his fresh haircut: he has the letters INT shaved into the right side of his head.
"It was a funny one, I went to one (hairdresser) downtown right near the hotel," he said.
"And just to not sound weird, I was like: 'Hey, do you know there's a golf tournament happening, USA versus Internationals?'.
"He's like: 'Yeah, yeah, I think so.
"I was like: 'Well, I'm on that team so could you write I-N-T on the side of my head?
"He was my age and he was very cool about it. He's like: 'I got you'. I just let him do his thing.
"He did a really good job ... I haven't done anything extreme like that."
The Americans are 12-1-1 in the all-time series having only lost in 1998 at Royal Melbourne.
The event begins on Thursday (Friday AEST) in Canada.
PRESIDENTS CUP FOURBALLS:
* 11.35 Thursday (0135 AEST Friday): Jason Day and Byeong Hun An v Xander Schauffele and Tony Finau
* 11.53 (0153 AEST): Adam Scott and Min Woo Lee v Collin Morikawa and Sahith Theegala
* 12.11 (0211 AEST): Sungjae Im and Tom Kim v Scottie Scheffler and Russell Henley
* 12.29 (0229 AEST): Taylor Pendrith and Christiaan Bezuidenhout v Wyndham Clark and Keegan Bradley
* 12.47 (0247 AEST): Hideki Matsuyama and Corey Conners v Patrick Cantlay and Sam Burns
(International team first)