Canada’s Big Week in Golf
In what is being billed as the most important golf event in the history of golf in Canada, the President’s Cup gets set to tee of tomorrow. No player is facing the pressure more than Canadian Mike Weir. If you remember, Weir was Gary Player’s controversial pick earlier this summer over Stephen Ames who was actually higher in the world rankings at that point. It wouldn’t normally be a big deal, except that Mike Weir has a history of choking under pressure playing in front of the home town fans. I find it laughable that people are even talking about a Tiger-Weir singles matchup, Tiger would own that.
Team USA poses. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/US PGA TOUR)
Missing from this year’s President’s Cup so far has been the trash talking and smack that usually precedes these USA v. World events. Last time in 2005, Vijay Singh piped up saying Fred Couples would be carted away shortly after the front-nine (Vij would end up eating his words later). Maybe that is why the Ryder Cup is more exciting than the President’s Cup, there’s more animosity between the teams. The US has the PGA Tour, Europe has the European Tour. If you look at the International team, most of the players live, train and play in the US year-round anyway, for the most part, you can call them Americans. Take Mike Weir for example, the guy lives in Utah and has lived there since he went to college there. His kids were all born in the US. What about Rory “motormouth” Sabbatini, he’s more Texan than South African, just listen to him speak.
Team World poses. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/US PGA TOUR)
Still, it will be good to see the last big tournament of the year before the Tour shuts it down. I know they are still playing the fall series, but lets face it, nobody of note is playing. For all intents and purposes, this is the last golf tournament of relevance of the year before it cranks up again in February.
PGA Tour, President’s Cup, Mike Weir
September 27th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
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