MONTREAL (AP) — Golf has never seen a rivalry as lopsided as the Presidents Cup, so heavily weighted toward the Americans it can barely be considered a rivalry.
Adam Scott needs no reminder.
He was a 23-year-old making his Presidents Cup debut in 2003, right in the middle of the action in South Africa, urging for a Tiger Woods-Ernie Els playoff to continue in the dark if it meant the International team not getting a share of the trophy. It ended in a tie. They shared the gold trophy.
But for Scott and the Internationals, it’s been all downhill — more like plunging off a cliff — ever since then.
The Americans have won nine in a row since that tie, and the only International victory was in 1998 at Royal Melbourne in Australia.