President's Cup Notes

The President's Cup has wrapped up, and first, I'm just happy that Obama didn't win that, too. I let two cars into traffic last week, and found out I was nominated for a Nobel Prize! Thought the bar might be higher than that (after all, I'm not George Bush, either).

While the President's Cup was interesting, for me there's just no way this will ever catch up to the Ryder Cup, unless of course the international team starts behaving more, well, European. For this event to be as compelling as the Ryder Cup, the U.S. would have to lose on home soil, and the opposition will have to be much less likable. Losing in Australia in two years probably won't make a big difference with fans here in America (didn't that happen a few years ago?), but losing in our own backyard would be tragic.

On the other side, if their side had some characters that we could dislike more, that would help boost the matches. Greg Norman, on top of having issues in his new marriage, evidently did something bad to his right arm (related?), Yang is just so happy, Adam Scott and Camilo Villegas are sooo cute and are playing horribly, Tim Clark is the little engine that could. How can you root against that bunch? It's like the Bad News Bears go golfing.

Putting Rory Sabbatini on their squad wouldn't have changed the outcome, but with how unlikable he is, no doubt interest would have gone up.

As to the golf, our top three (Woods, Mickelson, Stricker) were bullet proof, Johnson and Glover weak, and the rest of the team very good. The big surprise from their team was no surprise: Tim Clark. Notice how he's always hanging around in big events? He'll win soon over here.

As predicted, Tiger got another shot at Yang, and the world started turning the right direction again. Got the feeling Yang is finally aware of how unusual his win was in August.

Stay warm!