"I'm not going to stand up and say Tiger is a horrible pick, but I'm going to say it's very disappointing that Keegan Bradley doesn't get to play."

We should probably leave the last word on the Tiger selection by Captain Couples to Geoff Ogilvy, who summed it up best during a pre-Presidents Cup teleconference call today:

Q.  Greg obviously came out this week and made some comments about Tiger that caused a bit of a hullabaloo and caused a bit of traction.  I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the Tiger selection.  And secondly, I gather these things are normally played in pretty good spirits, do you see any tension maybe between the teams or have you experienced that in the past?  And do you anticipate any this time around?

GEOFF OGILVY:  Firstly, the Tiger thing, you can't ever say that picking Tiger Woods is a bad selection.  But the way he picked him, I don't agree with the way he picked him, announcing it months early.  Basically telling the guys who are on the fringe of the U.S. Team there's really only going to be one pick.  I'm not exactly sure in saying it that early.  And it is disappointing.  Keegan Bradley is the obvious one, he's won two tournaments this year, one of them being a major, and he hasn't made the team, which is astonishing really that you can do that in a year and not make the team.  So I'm very disappointed for him.  But that's beside the point.

I guess it's a very difficult situation when you announce you're going to pick one guy that early for everybody else.  It's hard to say that picking Tiger Woods on your team is a bad thing because he's been the best golfer in the world for the last 15 years.  Maybe not for the last 18 months but definitely for the last 15 years.  But doing it the way he did it might not have been the best