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\nCHARLOTTE, N.C.: The last Presidents Cup was so close the International team walked away with renewed hope that it had enough game and enough fight to conquer the mighty Americans.<\/p>\n
\nThat now seems so long ago.<\/p>\n
\nSure, the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the Presidents Cup back a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThat\u2019s something that we\u2019ve been looking forward to for the last three years,\u201d said British Open champion Cameron Smith, and then 20 days later he was officially announced as defecting to the rival league.<\/p>\n
\nJoaquin Niemann of Chile and Marc Leishman of Australia also took the cash to sign with LIV Golf just two days before the 12-man International team was to be filled out. Louis Oosthuizen, so good in the Presidents Cup he had a winning record while never playing on a winning team, was among the first to go back in June.<\/p>\n
\nUS captain Davis Love III was asked if he felt bad for Trevor Immelman, who was chosen International captain long before LIV was anything more than a Roman numeral.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI feel bad for the game of golf right now that this is the story going in,\u201d Love said. \u201cI feel bad for all of us, really. But Trevor has a job to do, and that\u2019s to take 12 guys in there ready to play, and he\u2019s going to be focused on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe 14th edition of the matches between Americans and an International team composed of players from outside Europe starts Thursday at Quail Hollow Club, and it looks to be as one-sided as the record suggests.<\/p>\n
\nThe Americans have lost only once, in 1998 at Royal Melbourne in Australia, matches that ended 12 days before Christmas. There was a tie in South Africa and then eight consecutive US celebrations.<\/p>\n
\nThe US are not quite a year removed from giving Europe their worst beating ever in the Ryder Cup, 19-9 at Whistling Straits, with a young and hungry team.<\/p>\n
\nThe Americans were not immune to the defections \u2014 Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau were on that Ryder Cup team \u2014 though there was no certainty they would have made this team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nAnd the state of American golf is such that replacements are easily found. All 12 players are among the top 25 in the world ranking.<\/p>\n
\nThe International team counters with only three players from the top 25 \u2014 former Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama, Sungjae Im and Tom Kim, the 20-year-old South Korean who wasn\u2019t even a consideration until he won the Wyndham Championship six weeks ago.<\/p>\n
\nImmelman brings eight Presidents Cup rookies to Quail Hollow. Only three players on his team have won tournaments this year. Only two \u2014 Matsuyama and Adam Scott \u2014 have won majors.<\/p>\n
\nLove\u2019s team has only three players who haven\u2019t won this year. That includes two-time major champion Collin Morikawa and Cameron Young, the PGA Tour rookie who has been a runner-up five times and twice came within one shot of a chance to win a major.<\/p>\n
\nNow think back to Melbourne in 2019, a Presidents Cup that was going the International team\u2019s way until a US rally on the final day and a 16-14 victory. Ernie Els was the captain who gave his side a new logo, a new identity and a fighting spirit.<\/p>\n
\nEls said of his team when it was over, \u201cIf you look at their record and where these guys are at the moment, they are going places, I can tell you that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe Americans have five Presidents Cup rookies, though two of them (Morikawa and Scottie Scheffler) played in the Ryder Cup, and two others (Sam Burns and Max Homa) have collected three PGA Tour victories in the last 12 months.<\/p>\n
\nIt\u2019s one-sided on paper. It\u2019s a one-sided history. If there is pressure on the Americans, it\u2019s about not being the team that finally loses.<\/p>\n
\nImmelman doesn\u2019t hide the disappointment at not having Oosthuizen and Smith and Niemann and those who were looked upon as being big contributors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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