2015 Presidents Cup: Nick Price Decides to Sit Sang-Moon Bae on Day 1

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Published: October 7, 2015

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The Presidents Cup is hanging on by a thread; there is little question about that.

International captain Nick Price admitted as much earlier this week at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club in South Korea by making the following statement, as reported by the Daily Mail:

I will tell you guys, this is a really important Presidents Cup. I'm not going to say, 'What if?' But this better be closely contested. I'll let you guys figure out the repercussions. It’s hard for these guys. You ask these guys to give up a week and to play in an event that is not competitive. Any one of these guys can go play anywhere around the world and receive money and they can easily dump this event if they wanted to. Most of them don't want to do that.

World No. 2 Jason Day backed up Price’s view of just how important the 2015 Presidents Cup will be to the long-term survival of the matches.

“This is a huge deal for us right now. If it doesn't happen and we keep losing guys won't get interested in it and won't want to play in it and won't want to travel,” Day said, as reported by the Daily Mail.

OK, so we are all in agreement that the Presidents Cup is currently in a sorry state and that it is imperative for the International side to at least bring some form of drama to the 2015 competition.

Korean-born Sang-Moon Bae is arguably the biggest story of the week heading into the 2015 Presidents Cup for several reasons:

1) He is the only South Korean citizen taking part in an event that is being touted as the largest men’s golfing competition ever held in South Korea.

2) Bae has more experience at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club than any player in the competition this week. The 29-year-old South Korean has won the Shinhan Donghae Open (a Korean Tour event) twice at the course.

3) This will be Bae’s last professional event before beginning a mandatory two-year stint i...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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