The team of Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker appear to be unbeatable, something that needs to kept in mind for next year's Ryders Cup Mr. U.S. Team Captain Corey Pavin. Meanwhile, Phil Mickelson appears to be able to win no matter who he pairs up with.
But, sadly, it also appears just two days into the 2009 Presidents Cup in San Francisco that Sean O'Hair has no business being anywhere near this type of format. After dropping a point in Thursday's matches, O'Hair teamed up with Kenny Perry to suffer the worst loss of the day for the U.S. team on Friday, a 4 & 3 defeat at the hands of Y.E. Yang and Ryo Ishikawa. O'Hair simply hasn't done much during the first two days and isn't showing any sign that he'll turn it around over the weekend.
The goof news for team captain Fred Couples is that his two picks for the team actually fared better today. Lucas Glover teamed up with Stewart Cink and fell 1-up on the 18th hole to Vijay Singh and Tim Clark. But despite the loss, Glover actually had a decent day.
Couples other pick, Hunter Mahan, gave his team an early lead with solid play and his partner Zach Johnson helped close out a 2 & 1 win over Robert Allenby and Camilo Villegas.
But what should concern Couples the most this weekend is the slim one-point lead his team will start Saturday's matches with. The U.S. team has gotten off to strong starts early in nearly all of the matches, but has faded in enough of them to let the International squad hang close.
That is a dangerous position for the Americans to be in and they really need to make a big push on Saturday to build up a nice cushion for Sunday's finale.
International Captain Greg Norman must be ecstatic to be just one point down after two days at Harding Park in San Francisco and he has enough firepower on his roster that knows how to close out matches on Sunday to make Fred Couples a mighty worried leader in the clubhouse.
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