Deal with it.
The 2011 Presidents Cup came and went without much fanfare, mainly because the U.S. rules while the rest of the world drools. To be fair, that’s the rest of the world without Europe, because the motherland’s best golfers save their efforts for the Ryder Cup, at which the U.S. does the bulk of the sucking. But this weekend’s win improved the American team’s record at the Presidents Cup to 7-1-1, and the hubbub surrounding this year’s W is all about Tiger Woods.
First off, U.S. captain Fred Couples received a lot criticism for choosing Woods over PGA champion Keegan Bradley. Couples, though, reminded everyone that Woods will always be the best golfer in the world to him, so he was banking on that guy showing up. And though Woods accounted for just 2 of America’s 19 points, he did give the best performance of the event in his singles match on Sunday, so of course Couples is doing a little air humping.
Golf’s Greg Norman has a deserved reputation for never being able to win the big one. Norman implied in a recent stateside interview that one of the reasons for his choke-tastic legacy was the “mental processes” imposed upon him by his now ex-wife, Laura, saying, “[Current wife Chris Evert, pictured] would have instilled a different thought process and I would have said the answer would probably be ‘yes’.” Blaming the wife is great when dishes aren’t done or you don’t feel like hitting the bars on a weekday, but for golf? Not so much. An Aussie paper, aptly named “The Australian,” took Norman to task for the barb, in a way that only people that speak with such awesome accents could:
