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THE PRESIDENTS CUP
ROBERT TRENT JONES GOLF CLUB
LAKE MANASSAS, VIRGINIA
SEPTEMBER 20 – 25, 2005
The Presidents Cup features 24 of the world’s best golfers competing head-to-head in an exciting team match play event. The event matches the best of the United States against the best of a truly International Team on one of the world’s most prestigious golf courses – the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club of Lake Manassas. The Presidents Cup was developed to give the world’s best non-European players an opportunity to compete in international team match-play competition, the Presidents Cup is a biennial event played in non-Ryder Cup years.
Members of the 2005 U.S. Team for the Presidents Cup will be selected based on earnings from the start of the 2004 season through the 2005 PGA Championship.
International Team players for the 2005 Presidents Cup will be chosen on the basis of the Official World Golf Ranking. International teams to do not include players eligible for the European Ryder Cup Team.
The eligibility rankings are used to select 10 members for both squads. U.S. Captain Jack Nicklaus and his International counterpart, Gary Player, will have two choices each to round out their 12-man teams.
 
This is one of the most exciting of all international team golf formats, featuring foursomes, four-balls and final day singles. Elaborate Opening and Closing Ceremonies begin and end this great event.
Everyone should have the opportunity to experience The Presidents Cup. Why not make this your year?
The Presidents Cup is also the ultimate destination for your next incentive trip, meeting, or customer appreciation trip.
SGH GOLF’S PRESIDENTS CUP PROGRAM
We are staying in Old Town Alexandria, which boasts an abundance of quaint shops, boutiques, galleries, great restaurants, bars and exciting nightlife.
Founded by a group of Scottish tobacco merchants, the seaport town of Alexandria came into being on a sunny day in July 1749, when a 60-acre tract of land was auctioned off in ½ acre lots. As you stroll the brick sidewalks and cobblestone streets of highly gentrified Old Town, the city’s official historic district, you’ll see more than 2, 00 buildings dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. You can visit Gadsby’s Tavern, where 2 centuries ago the men who created this nation discussed politics, freedom, and revolution over tankards of ale. You can stand in the doorway of the tavern where George Washington reviewed his troops for the last time, walk past Robert E. Lee’s boyhood home, and sit in the pews of Christ church where both men worshipped.
THE FORMAT
The Presidents Cup is a biennial International match play competition, featuring 12 players from the United States against 12 players representing the rest of the world (excluding Europe). Each member of the 12-man teams must play each day. There are 12 singles matches on the final day, all of which are played until a result is achieved. No singles matches can be halved. If the overall competition is deadlocked at the end of the singles play on Sunday, there is a sudden death playoff between two players – designated in advance by each team.
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