Junior Golf 13. Your Game 16. T he silence has been deafening in the weeks leading to the Presidents Cup. Only two years after U.S. captain Jack Nicklaus suggested the young team event can someday become bigger than the monster that is the Ryder Cup, Presidents' buzz this time has had all the volume of white noise. Fair or not, the Presidents always will be compared with the Ryder.
Golf is a game of comparisons and choices.
And as the professional game's schedule becomes more crowded and its season ever longer, the import and success of the PC ultimately will depend on the choices of leading U.S. players such as Tiger Woods. Yet, despite those and other obstacles, forecasting doom for the Presidents would be ill-advised. But if the Presidents' major problem is that it is not the Ryder, that is no sin, for there are only four gatherings in that league and they are called majors. Its growth is in need of, besides Woods' continued involvement, a galvanizing moment, a B-12 shot, an explosion that the Ryder didn't enjoy until it was almost 60. Some sort of Ryder-like conflict, though ideally in the realm of sportsmanship, would help, too.