Presidents Cup In-Depth Preview: Teams & Expectations

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00:00This is Team USA versus the international team on international soil up in Montreal.

00:10Let's start with the format and the roster breakdowns.

00:14Who does Team USA bring into this fight?

00:16Who's the captain and who do you expect to excel?

00:19All right, well, the US, they've got 10 of the top 20 players in the world on a team

00:25of 12.

00:26I mean, they are stacked.

00:27The average world golf ranking of their team is 12.

00:31You know, versus the international team, their average world golf ranking is 34.

00:36Both teams are made up of guys that are around 30 years old.

00:40Average team age is 31 for both sides.

00:42So these guys know each other very well.

00:44They play on the PGA Tour all the time.

00:46There's no live guys here, right?

00:47It's just a PGA Tour sanctioned event.

00:50We're up in Royal Montreal.

00:51This is the 15th edition of this.

00:54And captain Mike Weir has his guys fired up to try to go after the huge, you know,

01:00favorite side of the US team, who is captained by Jim Furyk.

01:03Now, we all remember Jim was a losing Ryder Cup captain back in Paris 2018.

01:09And that's probably one of the things that the international side is hanging their hat

01:12on as far as coming up with an ups.

01:14Maybe the US side over thinks this, but I tell you, they are stacked.

01:18Scotty Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Colin Moore, Calvin Clark, Patrick Cantlie.

01:23These guys are all here ready to, you know, to do battle in a couple of different formats.

01:29And I guess we'll get into that too.

01:32Let me ask you, Keith, about the international side, because with Mike Weir, he's got three

01:37pretty darn good Canadians on his team with Pedrith Hughes and Connors.

01:42What are you expecting from this side?

01:46I think he's got to lean on those guys a lot and not just when they're playing.

01:49And I think Corey, as the Canadian best player in the world rankings, you know, I think he's

01:54got to go five matches.

01:55But I think he has to also rely on these guys to get the crowds motivated.

01:59You know, I think Canada, every time, you know, the PGA Tour, we come up here for the

02:03Canadian Open one time a summer, Canada comes out and they represent.

02:07And I think this thing is going to be a madhouse this weekend.

02:10It's going to be a hockey match that's going to last four days.

02:13It's going to be a lot of fun to watch.

02:15But that's where the Canadians, I think, really, really can play an integral part of this team.

02:19Even though Matt Hughes, you know, he's not going to play five matches, but when he's not playing,

02:24it's getting the crowds going.

02:25It's getting them behind these guys.

02:27On the international side, they really need, you know, that 13th man, that one extra player to be

02:33the crowd to kind of put some pressure on these guys.

02:36And if the Americans don't get out to a quick start, the pressure is going to build as,

02:41are you on the team that's going to be the first one to lose in a very long time,

02:45at least this century?

02:46I mean, this is the 15th one of these.

02:49In 14 Presidents' Cup matches, the U.S. is 12-1-1.

02:53They haven't lost since 1998 in Australia.

02:55And they didn't take a very strong side to that match back in the day.

02:59So I'll tell you what, Scotty, Xander, you know, Colin, all of these guys, Tony, Fino,

03:04they don't want to be on the team that loses.

03:05So the pressure will mount if the Canadians can mount a charge.

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