This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, which is CBC Sports' daily email newsletter. Stay up to speed on what's happening in sports by subscribing here. Canada is set to put its stamp on one of golf's top "best-on-best" competitions as the Presidents Cup tees off Thursday at Royal Montreal.
Like the Ryder Cup and the women's Solheim Cup, this event pits the United States against another international entity in a series of pairs and singles matches played over several days.
The main difference is that while those other two events are the U.S. vs. Europe, the Presidents Cup sees a team of American men take on a more patchwork International squad of golfers from anywhere else in the world except Europe.
By pretty much any measure (popularity, prestige, history, competitiveness — you name it) the Presidents Cup pales in comparison to the Ryder Cup.