President’s Cup runneth over

IF this is team golf, then we can’t get enough of it! We refer, of course, to the epic President’s Cup at the weekend which rivalled anything the Ryder Cup has come up with in its much longer history.

The future of the biannual clash of the USA and the International selection was surely copperfastened in the minds of public and players alike as two superb and evenly-matched teams fought out a memorable tie at Fancourt. The Internationals may not have had a very apparent cause for which to do battle as the players came literally from all over the globe, but theirs was a team full of outstanding golfers.

Nick Price, one of the game’s great gentlemen, was so upset at missing a putt on the 18th for a half against Kenny Perry, that he broke the shaft of his putter off his knee more in disappointment than anger.