The most important player on either side of the Ryder Cup might just be one of the most anonymous.
All eyes will be on Tiger Woods this weekend, but it's possible that the guy who's come within a few strokes of knocking him off his No. 1 perch will be far more important to the final standings. Steve Stricker, insanely talented yet ridiculously low-key, might be the guy who can take Tiger from match-play question mark to multi-win certainty.
Stricker is the perfect foil for Tiger, calm where Woods is demonstrative, steady where Woods is erratic (especially this year). At last year's Presidents Cup, the pairing dominated, going 4-0 when matched together. (Woods was 5-0 overall, continuing what we thought at the time was a complete career renaissance.)
But Woods hasn't had the same kind of success in Ryder Cup play; he's only 7-12-1. Now, that's a wretched record on its face, but match play is far different from stroke play, so it's understandable that Woods could have a bit more trouble when the score resets after every hole than when he can carry over strokes and bulldoze his opponents.
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