1959 Canada Cup

The 1959 Canada Cup took place 18–21 November at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Melbourne, Australia. It was the seventh Canada Cup event, which became the World Cup in 1967. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 30 teams. These were the same teams that had competed in 1958 but without Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela and with the addition of Indonesia. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The Australian team of Kel Nagle and Peter Thomson won by 10 strokes over the American team of Cary Middlecoff and Sam Snead. The individual competition was won by Canadian Stan Leonard, who beat Peter Thomson at the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.[1]

1959 Canada Cup
Tournament information
Dates18–21 November
LocationMelbourne, Australia
Course(s)Royal Melbourne Golf Club
(Composite course)
Format72 holes stroke play
combined score
Statistics
Par70
Length6,853 yards (6,266 m)
Field30 two-man teams
Champion
 Australia
Kel Nagle & Peter Thomson
563 (+3)

Teams
CountryPlayers
 ArgentinaFidel de Luca and Leopoldo Ruiz
 AustraliaKel Nagle and Peter Thomson
 BelgiumDonald Swaelens and Flory Van Donck
 BrazilJosé Maria Gonzalez and Mário Gonzalez
 CanadaAl Balding and Stan Leonard
 ChileLuciano Calderon and Enrique Orellana
 ColombiaPablo Molina and Miguel Sala
 DenmarkHenning Kristensen and Carl Paulsen
 EgyptCherif El-Sayed Cherif and Mohamed Said Moussa
 EnglandPeter Alliss and Bernard Hunt
 FranceRoger Cotton and François Saubaber
 IndonesiaSalim and Sjamsudin
 IrelandHarry Bradshaw and Christy O'Connor Snr
 ItalyAlfonso Angelini and Ugo Grappasonni
 JapanTorakichi Nakamura and Haruyoshi Kobari
 MexicoRoberto De Vicenzo and Juan Neri
 NetherlandsGerard de Wit and Joop Rühl
 New ZealandFrank Buckler and John Kelly
 PhilippinesVic Allin and Larry Montes
 PortugalHenrique Paulino and F De Silva Pina
 ScotlandEric Brown and John Panton
 South AfricaHarold Henning and Gary Player
 South KoreaKim Hark Young and Park Myeong-chul
 SpainÁngel Miguel and Sebastián Miguel
 SwedenAke Bergquist and Harry Karlsson
  SwitzerlandJacky Bonvin and Otto Schoepfer
 TaiwanChen Ching-Po and Hsieh Yung-yo
 United StatesCary Middlecoff and Sam Snead
 WalesDai Rees and Dave Thomas
 West GermanyFriedrich Becker and Herbert Becker

Source[1]

Scores

Team

#CountryScoreTo par
1 Australia137-139-144-143=563+3
2 United States145-140-148-140=573+13
3 Canada144-139-144-147=574+14
4 South Africa144-147-142-147=580+20
5 England150-145-146-147=588+28
6 Wales144-143-154-149=590+30
7 Scotland158-147-146-144=595+35
8 Taiwan152-152-146-147=597+37
T9 Argentina151-153-150-147=601+41
 Spain152-145-147-157=601
11 Belgium152-151-151-148=602+42
12 Ireland150-148-151-154=603+43
13 Japan147-148-148-162=605+45
14 France155-150-150-153=608+48
15 Italy151-152-154-152=609+49
16 Brazil151-157-152-159=619+59
T17 Chile157-154-145-166=622+62
 Mexico154-149-160-159=622
 New Zealand154-155-153-160=622
20 Colombia155-152-160-158=625+65
21 Egypt160-157-157-157=631+71
22 Sweden159-149-160-169=637+77
23  Switzerland168-154-168-161=651+91
T24 Denmark165-156-164-167=652+92
 West Germany164-161-163-164=652
26 Portugal166-161-161-166=654+94
27 Philippines173-166-159-157=655+95
28 Netherlands167-165-161-165=658+98
29 South Korea166-162-162-172=662+102
30 Indonesia185-181-179-181=726+166

Source[1]

International Trophy

#PlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Stan Leonard Canada70-66-69-70=275−5
2Peter Thomson Australia67-69-68-71=275−5
3Sam Snead United States73-65-73-70=281+1
4Gary Player South Africa72-72-71-69=284+4
5Kel Nagle Australia70-70-76-72=288+8
T6Eric Brown Scotland78-72-75-67=292+12
Chen Ching-Po Taiwan76-73-71-72=292
Cary Middlecoff United States72-75-75-70=292
Flory Van Donck Belgium70-75-75-72=292
10Peter Alliss England73-74-70-76=293+13

Leonard beat Thomson at the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.

Source [2][1]

References
  1. "Australians easily win team championship". The Glasgow Herald. 23 November 1959. p. 10.
  2. Canada Cup Golf: Australia's Record Lead in first Round The Glasgow Herald 19 November 1959, p. 13

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