Alan Bastable
Senior Associate Editor, GOLF Magazine
Pick: Internationals
Scary goes a long way in match play, and unfortunately for the members of Team U.S.A., they aren't all that scary. When you get past Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk, this Yankee lineup is more Triple-A than A-List. Don't get me wrong: guys like Steve Stricker, Woody Austin and Lucas Glover deserve to be on the squad, but if this thing gets scrappy — as team matches often do — my money's on Vijay Singh, Rory Sabbatini, Angel Cabrera and Retief Goosen. Nick O'Hern (left) and K.J. Choi will roll up their sleeves, too.

Incidentally, if aggregate major wins is any way to gauge a team's potency, the tally looks like this when you remove Tiger's 13 titles from the picture: International: 11. U.S.: 6.