Tiger Woods turned up to the 2009 Presidents Cup in some of the best form of his career.The phenom won the BMW Championship by eight shots before scooping a FedEx Cup triumph. Woods couldn’t help but be impressed at Fred Couples’ jokeGettyWoods won all five of his matches for the United States in a resounding 191⁄2–141⁄2 win at Harding Park, California.Captain Fred Couples had a strong hand and played a blinder, but unbeknownst to his team had apparently taken a massive risk before a ball had been struck.Ahead of the event, both leaders are asked to put the name of a golfer in an envelope.That man would miss Sunday’s singles if somebody on the other team went down injured.View Tweet: https://x.com/hashtag/USTeam?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwTiger Woods prank left US team in disbeliefPrime Tiger is obviously the last name any sane captain would put in that envelope, but Couples wanted to have some fun.“I’m the captain, first-time captain. We’ve got Tiger Woods on the team,” he explained years later. “At the beginning of the week, in case of injury, you put a name in an envelope. “I’m the only guy in the room with (International captain Greg) Norman. He puts a name in, I put a name in and we give them to the head official Steve Carman. So anyway, as the story goes, we go on and we go on and we win Sunday night. “Steve Carman comes in and he has to give the envelope back to the captain. We’re in the room hootin’ and hollerin’. He pulls me aside and I know what he’s gonna say: ‘Here’s you’re envelope.’ I said, ‘Why don’t you open it up in front of everyone and read the name in there?’“So he tears it open and he reads it and it’s Tiger Woods. The whole room went silent. They thought I was such a clown that I put Tiger Woods in there as the guy who wouldn’t play on Sunday in case of an injury.”The full extent of the prank only became widely known two years after the fact.The United States dominated as usualGettyWoods produced even by his own high standardsAFPCouples and assistant captain Jay Haas tricked everybody and replaced Lucas Glover’s name with Woods.“So I didn’t tell the story for two full years,” he continued. “So we somehow unhooked the envelope and I took the name out of the there. “It was someone who was a (captain’s) pick, and I put Tiger’s name in there. He texted me for weeks: ‘Dude, you’ve got the biggest balls of anyone I’ve ever seen.’“I went, ‘You know what? Why not put your name in. I thought I’d stir things up.’ “So that went for years. I finally told the story. I took a lot of heck for it but for two years I had everyone thinking I put Tiger Woods’ name in the envelope.”Pulling off the prank is impressive and having the world’s best golfer thinking you had risked his participation for two years is a ridiculous feat.