“We can’t just show up and say, ‘We’re here.'"

Tim Finchem's penciling in South America and China for future Presidents Cup venues, reports Doug Ferguson.

PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said the tour has agreed to look into the possibility of staging the Presidents Cup in China in 2019, which he said might be enough time for China to set a goal of having a player capable of competing in the matches, or worthy enough to be a captain’s pick.

They've agreed to look into it? What, the guards at the airport wouldn't stamp their passport until they said yes to a possible Presidents Cup because they were still reveling in the excitement of the '09 matches?\

Finchem is intrigued by the idea that the Presidents Cup head to South America in 2015, one year before golf returns to the Olympic program in Brazil. Golf is only guaranteed the 2016 and 2020 Olympics before another vote of confirmation. It is important that golf put on a good show in Rio.

“We can’t just show up and say, ‘We’re here,’ ” Finchem said.