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Els issues rallying cry at Presidents Cup

ESPN staff
November 19, 2011
Ernie Els is playing in his seventh Presidents Cup © PA Photos
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Ernie Els admits his Internationals team need nothing less than a miracle if they are to claim victory at the Presidents Cup in Melbourne.

The US team take an imposing 13-9 lead into the final day's singles matches, but Els believes Greg Norman's men are capable of pulling off an unlikely comeback.

The American side have lost just once in eight previous Presidents Cup encounters, but Els has called for his side to replicate the American team's legendary comeback at the 1999 Ryder Cup.

"We have to do a Brookline, we have to do a miracle tomorrow," he said. "It can be done. It's going to be a once-in-a-lifetime deal if we pull it off, but it can be done."

History is against the International side, who have won the singles only once. But Jim Furyk, who was on the American side that beat Europe at Brookline in 1999, insists his US team-mates will not be complacent when they take to the course on Sunday.

"I remember at Brookline, one of the players on the other team making the comment that, 'This is over,' in the press room," he said. "And that's actually the wrong attitude to have and maybe it's one of the reasons it bit them.

"I think we as a team have to realise tonight that we have to come out firing tomorrow and it's important that each and every one of us go out there and work the hardest we can to get a point. You need to keep the pedal down."

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