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While the United States team leads the overall Presidents Cup series over the International squad by a 4-1-1 margin, on paper, the International team might be the favorite this time around when the sides meet next week at Royal Montreal Golf Club in Canada.

The International team boasts nine players ranked among the Top 20 in the Official World Golf Ranking while the U.S. team has only five, although the United States can claim four of the top five players in Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Jim Furyk and Steve Stricker.

So while the International side might be given the edge heading into the week, which team's players are performing the best heading into the week? A quick look at the chart below might say that the U.S. team enters in the best form.

We took the last five starts for each player and came up with the following information. The U.S. team has posted six wins and 17 Top-10 finishes in that time span while missing eight cuts. The 12 players comprising the International side have not won an event while recording 13 Top-10 finishes and missing 10 cuts.

Even if you simply take the last two starts for each player, the U.S. side appears to be peaking entering the competition, recording three wins and eight top-10 finishes. The International side has no wins and four top-10s to its credit over that span.

Speculation is fun, but when you see that the last two Presidents Cup competitions have ended in a tie and another that ended in a U.S. win on the final hole, it would appear that a week of exciting and close competition is in store when the teams tee it up on Thursday, Sept. 27.

The seventh Presidents Cup matches will be shown on TNT and NBC.