MONTREAL — The journey is now 30 years and counting. The Presidents Cup has ventured a long way since those early days when there was considerable consternation over whether such an event was even sustainable, especially in the shadow of the more popular and hugely successful Ryder Cup.
To be played for the 15th time this week when the event begins Thursday at Royal Montreal, it has overcome some dubious moments, perhaps none more telling than when a majority of the media contingent left Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Virginia on the eve of the final day of a close match in 1996 to chase a 20-year-old kid named Tiger Woods, who had taken the 54-hole lead at the Quad Cities Open.
