With the Presidents Cup now underway, we're in the home stretch with our wrapups of Presidents Cup past. Next up: The Cup returns to U.S. shores from its sojourn in South Africa.

After the controversial tie at the 2003 Presidents Cup in South Africa, tournament organizers made a change to the rules: no halves would be allowed in the singles matches unless the Cup was already clinched. The idea was to promote a way to settle it all on the course. While U.S. Captain Jack Nicklaus had promoted the tie as a way to celebrate sportsmanship, others saw it as a letdown. This is America! We don't tie here, mister!

The U.S. knocked off the Gary Player-captained International squad by a score of 18 1/2 to 15 1/2, but it was far closer than that. For one thing, Retief Goosen knocked off Tiger Woods, who had not lost a singles match in international competition since 1997, by a score of 2 to 1. In other words, nobody was invulnerable.

There were other spectacular moments. Chris DiMarco ended up being the Cup winner for the U.S., notching a first-rate 4 1/2 points on the weekend. Fred Couples drained an 18-foot birdie putt on 18 to knock off Vijay Singh. And Phil Mickelson had a stomach-churner of a moment when he thought he halved his match with Angel Cabrera, giving the U.S. the Cup, and walked off the 18th green in triumph, only to find he wasn't through after all. But when DiMarco beat Stuart Appleby, it became academic, and the U.S. held the Cup once again.