Anyone else stoked for this? There's something about the teams and matchplay format that is especially appealing to me. Matchplay generally sucks in regular competitions, but when you have two teams against each other and you mix it up with foursomes and fourballs you get a recipe for awesomeness.
Looking purely at the PGA rankings of the players, it looks like it might be a close competition (US has top 4 players, but international team has 9 of the top 15), but a virtual lock for all of Tiger's matches, a close-to-homefield advantage for the US team, and history on their side (4-1-1), the US team has to be considered pretty clear favorites.
Competition begins with
foursomes today. The first pairs to tee off are Steve Stricker and Hunter Mahon against Adam Scott and Geoff Ogilvy at 1.15 PM. Tiger tees off in the last match with Charles Howell III against K.J. Choi and Nick O'Hern at 2.05 PM.