The Internationals’ exuberance, led by Si Woo Kim and Tom Kim, made the weekend worth watching even as the outcome was never seriously in doubt. It was a compromised event long before it began, weakened not only by the defections to LIV Golf, but its classification as a meaningless, match-play mimic. Its positioning on the schedule—two weeks into the final rendition of the PGA Tour’s largely ignored fall series—did it no favors. Especially after a summer full of upheaval to the game’s competitive dynamic, lawsuits flying in all directions and a divisive nature to almost every component of this burgeoning…