Presidents Cup Final

Well, I can't say it was a surprise.

The U.S. who was pretty heavy favorites won the President's Cup, but it may have been a little closer than they expected, and the general public may have thought.

Tiger clinched the cup with a 1-up victory over the relatively unknown, Richard Sterne. This match was probably wasn't supposed to go to the 18th hole, but a win is a win. And the champion U.S. team isn't thinking any different right now.

The International team won the singles, but they had put themselves in too big of a hole going into singles. The International's dominated the singles winning 7.5 points, to U.S.'s 4.5. Some of the bigger upsets earlier today were Marc Leishman beating the match play stalwart, Matt Kuchar. Kuchar beat fellow teammate, Hunter Mahan, in the WGC Match-Play earlier this year. Mahan the past champ of that event, won his match over the up and coming Asian-sensation, Hideki Matsuyama. Another big upset was Angel Cabrera beating Phil. Though the cup had already been decided, the match still went on, and a win is a win.

One of the biggest reasons that the U.S. won was that they had depth. The lowest amount of points contributed by a player for them was two, from Spieth, Snedeker, and Mahan. The international team had two players who didn't contribute any points (Grace and Sterne). As well as two contributing 1.5 each (Matsuyama and Oosthuizen).

For the International team to have success in the future, and to actually start contending at this, they need to be able to compete with the U.S. in all three categories (alternate shot, best ball, and singles). For that to happen, they need to find good pairings within their team, and find chemistry amongst their players.

It has always seemed to me that the U.S. has always been united, and treats this as kind of an exhibition before the Ryder Cup. And never has made this event as serious as it could/should be. But why should they? They blow out the International's every time. If the U.S. can keep being much more united than the International's, than they will have no problem with the Presdent's Cup in the future.

The International team has always seemed like they were just thrown together with little unity. Yes, there are some pairs like Oosthuizen and Schwartzel that seem to be very comfortable with each other, and a good duo. But that's it, there's always one or two good groupings, but not more than that. If the International team can find the same chemistry as the Europeans in the Ryder Cup, and start to play with a little chip on their shoulder. Then maybe they can start to make this a match, but not until they start to make this a big deal to them.

This President's Cup like many, has shown how dominative the U.S. is over the International's. Hopefully in the future the President's Cup will become more competitive, but this years didn't show that in the near future.