President's Cup...Need some help Stanley, JoePa, Golf-Guy...

[Nigel Tufnel]

I realize that we still have the FedEx Championship next weekend...but I saw something today on my book that about made my eyes fall out of my head. I noticed that the line for the President's Cup was....

United States -140
International Even

Its funny...because my buddy and I talk about the Ryder Cup and how it would be cool if Australia could get a Ryder Cup team because Australia/New Zealand would be a really, really strong team.

So I'm thinking....USA v. everyone but Europe....damn. I go to the pga tour website and look at the rosters for the President's Cup.....

I honestly am really having a hard time figuring out how exactly the USA can beat the World roster....and USA is the favorite?

Tiger Woods can only get you so far in these events.

Why is USA the fave, guys? And please, if I'm way off on this, please explain....I'm thinking about putting some major cash on the World team at even money.

What am I missing here?

Oh....here are the rosters

USA
Tiger
Phil
Furyk
Z. Johnson
Charles Howell
David Toms
Verplank
Stricker
Cink
Austin
Mahan
Glover

International
Els
Scott
Singh
Ogilvy
Sabbatini
Choi
Goosen
Cabrera
Immelman
Appleby
Weir
OHern

[JohnnyMapleLeaf]

I'll be on the Internationals as a dog for sure. Way deeper team IMO....the back end of the Int. team get it done, IMO....and expect Weir to play well at home. All of those Int names are playing well as of late.

GL!

[Golf-Guy]

The International team is loaded and it seems as though the should be the obvious pick pick. But they seem to struggle in the team setting, lacking the chemistry that the Europeans bring to the Ryder Cup. That being said, the Americans haven't shown much either recently. I feel as though the Americans have something to prove because of the poor performances at the Ryder Cup recently. I do like their roster for this event as opposed to the Ryder Cup last year. Mahan, Austin and Stricker are all playing great golf right now as opposed to Vaughn Taylor and Brett Wetterich who stuggled at the K Club. Zach Johnson has a Ryder Cup under his belt and a win at Augusta. Woods and Mickelson are both playing incredible and Furyk is coming back from his injury. The International team is as deep as ever but the chemisty factor is what keeps me skeptical. I do agree that the odds are a little off here, I see it as a pickem.