Winner: Team USA, 16-14
Around the wider world of golf: The team of Kevin Tway and Rory Sabbatini won the QBE Shootout, the PGA Tour's unofficial team event formerly known as the Shark Shootout; and Jazz Janewattananond won the BNI Indonesian Masters on the Asian Tour.
There isn't any Twofer Tuesday update this week, as there has been no individual opposition in the subject. There changed into simply Team USA and Team International.
And as amazing as Tiger turned into (my gosh, you have to marvel what we would see in 2020!) and as well as the US group played (they surely confirmed some resilience in the ones 2nd and 5th rounds), I need to spend some time speaking about the International team. Because even as Team USA changed into truly outstanding, what Ernie Els has accomplished along with his group has qualitatively changed the Presidents Cup transferring forward.
In my Twofer Tuesday post this week I wrote that the International group turned into being extraordinarily underestimated. I wrote that I expected some new leaders to emerge. And I summed it up this manner:
So while I suppose the USA will win, I won't be amazed if the Internationals control an upset.I was right on the first two counts and was almost right on the third one. And while I may have an unusual take on this, I think I know why the International team didn't pull it off.
They had been so a success that they taken aback themselves, and they without a doubt weren't organized for it.
While they believed in precept that that they had a risk to win, I suppose that second spherical caught them completely off-defend. It's one thing to get yourself into a role to win; it's pretty some other factor to discover yourself at the verge of being nine-1 after best ten suits, which could have made dropping sincerely impossible. Seriously, whilst you only want five.5 factors and you've 20 suits to make them, a team in their quality truely isn't going to lose -- even though Tiger Woods IS the other group's captain!
It might also were their first time on this role, however I doubt it is going to be their last. I do suppose Ernie will be again as their captain for the subsequent Presidents Cup, actually because the International Team will want him to preserve the work he started on this one. The vision of his group, particularly the younger individuals, has been stretched a ways beyond what any of them believed viable even per week ago.
The Presidents Cup is on the verge of turning into... BIG.
In the meantime, I salute Team USA for weathering the hurricane down in Australia and maintaining the Cup. But it changed into more tough than each person anticipated and their Limerick Summary acknowledges that reality.
The contest went down to the wire.
Fueled via International hearth
The quit become dramatic?
If extremely erratic?
But Tiger’s boys won their desire. The photo came from this page at fox64charlotte.com.
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