Date: November 14-20, 2011

Course: Royal Melbourne Golf Club

Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

European Tour Golf Betting Odds: The Presidents Cup returns to Australia and Royal Melbourne Golf Club for the first time since 1998 when the biennial matches are contested later this year, Nov. 14-20. The two squads will be finalized after International Team Captain Greg Norman and U.S. Team Captain Fred Couples announce their captains' selections following the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola, which ends Sept. 25. The Top ten players from the year long rankings earn automatic bids and each captain gets to chose 2 Captain picks to round out their respective teams.

United States Captain Fred Couples has made one thing clear about one of his picks and that is he will include Tiger Woods as one of his picks; "I have talked to Tiger from the beginning of the year," Couples said during a Golf Channel interview last week prior to teeing off at the 3M Championship. "We text quite a bit and he wants to play. He is ready to play, and I think he will be on our team. "If he wants to come talk to me and say maybe I am not as healthy as I thought I was, so be it, but as far as our concern if he is not the top 10 — he will be on our team, no doubt. He is the best player in the world for a long time. He has slipped a little in rankings maybe, the way he is shooting scores, but he is still Tiger, and if I am captain, I will pretty much take him anytime we go."

Players are not personally paid for their participation in The Presidents Cup; there is no purse or prize money. Each competitor, instead, designates charities or golf-related projects of his choice to receive a portion of the funds raised through the staging of each Presidents Cup. On behalf of the players, captains and captains' assistants, more than $4.2 million was distributed to charitable causes from The Presidents Cup 2009. Additional donations were made to The First Tee of San Francisco and the Victorian Bushfire Appeal in 2009 and to the Premier's Disaster Relief Appeal following the Queensland floods in March 2011. In total, more than $23 million has been raised for charity since the inception of The Presidents Cup in 1994.

The 2011 Presidents Cup is one event you won’t want to miss as both teams are loaded with talent and the matches should come down to the final match. Check back in November and Bookmaker Sportsbook will have the latest matches available for you to wager on.

Final Note:

The U.S. owns a 6-1-1 record in the matches. The lone International victory came at Royal Melbourne in 1998.

2011 Presidents Cup Winner - Tiger closes out Presidents Cup win for US

Tiger Woods was a controversial pick for the United States Presidents Cup team. And after he absorbed a record beating in the opening match of the competition, it appeared the critics might be right.

Woods, though, got the last laugh, winning the clinching match as the United States won the Presidents Cup by beating the International team 19-15 on Sunday at Melbourne, Australia.

The former world No. 1, who hasn't won a tournament since November 2009 in Australia, dominated Aaron Baddeley in a 4-and-3 victory to give the Americans an insurmountable 18-14 lead.

Woods did not lose a hole until he was 5-up with five to play, but Baddeley was only able to extend the match to the 15th hole.

American captain Fred Couples said he didn't feel vindicated by his choice of Woods, but he was obviously pleased with his stellar performance.

While Woods secured the decisive point, Jim Furyk was the standout of the competition for the Americans, winning all five of his matches.

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