The Home Crowd, Like the Home Team, Was Silenced on the Opening Day of the Presidents Cup

Min Woo Lee, Adam Scott and Tom Kim were part of an International Team that was swept on Day 1 at Royal Montreal. | Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images

MONTREAL — Perhaps they needed to erect rafters, surround the course with dasher boards and bring in some ice. The International Presidents Cup team needed a hockey crowd breathing fire onto the Royal Montreal course.

Instead, it got cordial, mild-mannered Canadians whose reputation for being nice needed to be checked at the gates and turned into venom.