Mike Weir

A hometown hero in the 2007 Matches, Canada's greatest golfer is back for his fifth Presidents Cup. Coming into the 2009 season, Mike Weir had eight career PGA TOUR victories to his credit including the 2003 Masters Tournament, the first major championship won by a Canadian. But if you asked him to name his greatest thrill in golf, one that would make the very short list would be making the International Team at the 2007 Presidents Cup at Royal Montreal Golf Club as one of Gary Player's Captain's Picks. Weir ran up a 3-1-1 record in front of his countrymen -- with one of those victories coming in his Singles match against none other than Tiger Woods, 1-up. Weir showed just how solid he can be in head-to-head competition when he won the Masters by beating Len Mattiace on the first hole of their playoff. He played his way into the showdown with Mattiace by shooting a bogey-free final round, only the fourth in Masters history and the first since Doug Ford in 1957. The victory was the first by a lefty in a major championship since Sir Bob Charles at the 1963 British Open.

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