DUBLIN, Ohio -- Tiger Woods' partners for this week's Presidents Cup are still to be determined, but what he likes most about the competition is the ability of the captain to influence against whom he plays.

Unlike the Ryder Cup, in which the captains put out their teams without knowing the order of the other squad's lineup, the Presidents Cup has the captains mix and match prior to each session.

That will be the case Wednesday when U.S. captain Fred Couples and International captain Nick Price announce the order of their teams for the four-ball (best-ball) competition that begins Thursday at Muirfield Village.

"I think it's fantastic how they do the pairings,'' Woods said Tuesday after a practice round at Muirfield Village, a course where he has won the Memorial Tournament five times. "You can really set up some pairings and really get some key matchups or guys who are not playing well and put them out against another group that is not playing well. You can do those kind of matchups.

"Having the captains do that puts a little more emphasis on what happens, what the captain's responsibilities are," Woods said. "It's not just putting in the pairings like at the Ryder Cup and blindly seeing what happens. There's a lot of thinking and shuffling that goes on.''