President's Cup

ZeTurd · #1 09-27-2007, 10:09 AM

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.

41eater · #2 09-27-2007, 11:15 AM

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Really? I didn't think his Ryder/President's Cup record was all that hot.

ZeTurd · #3 09-27-2007, 11:30 AM

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Really? I didn't think his Ryder/President's Cup record was all that hot.

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Bit of an overstatement from me there, and obviously in foursomes he needs to avoid his playing partners totally botching it up. But if his form from the last few competitions is intact, he should be hard to touch.

tuq · #4 09-27-2007, 12:22 PM

I [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] this event. After this post, gonna see if I can find it streaming online somewhere. If not, I may have to go home and semi-work from there.

There was something weirdly empty about the DiMarco putt two years ago. I think it's that, unlike the Ryder Cup, they didn't state "in the case of a tie, previous winner retains status". On top of that they were coming off of a tie. So when DiMarco made that putt it was a huge anticlimax because the only two possible results were 1) US Win, or 2) Int's win all the outstanding matches to tie and then it's a tie. It was basically a freeroll for the US.

I'm not sure if that has been changed. That said, the International team is effing loaded and it makes no sense to me how the US can beat or tie them every time and then get completely owned time and again by a clearly less talented European squad in the Ryder Cup.

black knight · #5 09-27-2007, 01:04 PM

And Tiger's 0-2 vs O'Hearn.

Danastasio1 · #6 09-27-2007, 04:30 PM

I think this is a fantastic event. As one who watches/plays golf quite frequently, this unique tournament structure is a welcome change of pace. Appleby misses a tap in, GO RED TEAM!

Butcho22 · #7 09-27-2007, 04:55 PM

I'm trying to get pumped for this but I'm having a hard time.

Perplexity · #8 09-27-2007, 05:22 PM

USA is crushing

Won 1, AS in 3, +2 with 4 to go in 1, +1 with 5 to go in another

Butcho22 · #9 09-27-2007, 05:34 PM

Cap'n Jack already conceding putts that obv shouldn't be conceded...no wonder I can't get pumped for this.

ZeTurd · #10 09-27-2007, 05:40 PM

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Yeah, that was kinda strange. Obviously not a given and a lot of pressure on Singh. Nice gesture though.

I'm having hard time getting really pumped myself. Just can't decide which team to root for! There's been some nice puts and shortgame though.