Let’s begin with three sobering facts:
Fact One: My colleague Jamie Kennedy, in preparation for our “50 Things that changed golf” podcast on the founding of the Presidents Cup, uncovered a stat from when the Cup debuted in 1994 about “international” golfers. International, in this case, means players who are eligible for the International team at the Presidents Cup, i.e. not American or European. At the start of that year, there were eight (!) international golfers in the top 20 of the World Ranking. There were seven Americans, and only three Europeans.
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