Canadian golf hero Mike Weir will be leading the International Team, which once again hopes to end the U.S. squad’s dominance in the team event, Bob Weeks writes.
The Presidents Cup returns to Montreal next week. Canadian Mike Weir will be leading the International Team, which once again hopes to end the U.S. squad’s dominance in the team event.A: The Presidents Cup is a biennial competition that pits a team of 12 players from the United States against 12 from the rest of the world, excluding Europe. So that means Asia, Africa, South America, Australia/New Zealand and, of course, Canada.
Furyk played on seven U.S. teams and happened to be on the one that lost. He was also the captain of the American Ryder Cup side in 2018 when it went down to the Europeans.A: The American team is favoured to win. Again. It’s captured 12 of the 14 editions of this event, losing just once with one finishing up in a tie. The last – and only – time the International team won was back in 1998.
Using analytics, Weir filled his team with excellent putters: Mackenzie Hughes, Taylor Pendrith, Jason Day and Christiaan Bezuidenhout are all inside the top 20 in Strokes Gained: Putting. As the old saying, first coined by Canadian Al Balding, goes: Drive for show, putt for dough.
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