1988 World Cup (men's golf)

The 1988 World Cup took place 8–11 December at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Melbourne, Australia. It was the 34th World Cup event. It was a stroke play team event with 32 teams. Each team consisted of two players from a country. 22 teams were qualified through the 1987 tournament and another 10 teams were invited. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The United States team of Ben Crenshaw and Mark McCumber won by one stroke over the Japan team of brothers Masashi "Jumbo" Ozaki and Tateo "Jet" Ozaki The individual competition was won by Crenshaw.[1]

1988 World Cup
Tournament information
Dates8–11 December
LocationMelbourne, Australia
Course(s)Royal Melbourne Golf Club composite of East and West Courses
Format72 holes stroke play
combined score
Statistics
Par72
Length6,985 yards (6,387 m)
Field32 two-man teams
CutNone
Prize fundUS$750,000
Winner's share$200,000 team
$50,000 individual
Champion
 United States
Ben Crenshaw & Mark McCumber
560 (−16)

Teams

Country Players
 Argentina Eduardo Romero and Jorge Soto
 Australia Roger Mackay and Peter Senior
 Brazil Priscillo Diniz and Rafael Navarro
 Canada Dave Barr and Brent Franklin
 Colombia Rogelio Gonzalez and Eduardo Herrera
 Denmark Anders Sørensen and Steen Tinning
 England Mark James and Barry Lane
 Finland Markku Louhio and Timo Sipponen
 France Emmanuel Dussart and Marc Pendaries
 Hong Kong Yau Sui Ming and Alex Tang
 Indonesia Kasiyadi and Gimin Suwirjo
 India Basad Ali and Rohtas Singh
 Ireland Ronan Rafferty and Des Smyth
 Italy Guiseppe Calì and Costantino Rocca
 Japan Masashi Ozaki and Tateo Ozaki
 Malaysia Barrie Buluah and Sahabuddin Yusof[2]
 Mexico Rafael Alarcon and Enrique Serna
 Netherlands Kees Borst and Willem Swart
 New Zealand Frank Nobilo and Greg Turner
 Philippines Rudy Lavares and Mario Siodina
 Scotland Gordon Brand Jnr and Colin Montgomerie
 South Korea Choi Sang-ho and Park Nam-sin
 Spain Manuel Piñero and José Rivero
 Sweden Anders Forsbrand and Johan Ryström
  Switzerland Karim Baradia and Helmuth Schumacher
 Taiwan Hsu Sheng-san and Li Wen-sheng
 Thailand Boonchu Ruangkit and Somsakdi Srisangar
 United States Ben Crenshaw and Mark McCumber
 Venezuela Ramón Muñoz and Julian Santana
 Wales Mark Mouland and David Llewellyn
 West Germany Wolfgang John and Carlo Knauss
 Zimbabwe Anthony Edwards and Tim Price

Scores

Team

# Country Score To par Money (US$)
(per team)
1 United States139-137-137-147=560−16200,000
2 Japan138-140-138-145=561−15110,000
3 Australia143-131-142-146=562−1480,000
4 Canada144-139-140-146=569−765,000
5 Scotland140-140-149-141=570−641,000
6 New Zealand139-140-140-152=571−530,000
7 Spain139-140-139-154=572−420,000
8 Argentina145-146-143-142=576E16,000
T9 Ireland142-144-142-152=580+47,666
 Italy147-143-142-148=580
 Taiwan143-137-148-152=580
T12 Denmark145-144-141-152=582+65,000
 Wales150-142-138-152=582
14 Brazil140-147-142-154=583+9
T15 England142-149-142-156=589+13
 Thailand149-146-144-150=589
17 Mexico149-145-140-158=591+15
18 Colombia143-152-145-152=592+16
T19 France153-143-147-154=597+21
 Sweden146-151-148-152=597
21 South Korea146-153-146-153=598+22
22 Finland147-157-153-159=606+30
23 Philippines151-152-146-161=610+34
24 India151-158-147-159=615+39
25 Venezuela151-155-145-165=616+40
26 West Germany156-152-151-158=617+41
27 Zimbabwe151-155-154-160=620+44
28  Switzerland143-157-158-164=622+46
29 Malaysia152-153-150-170=625+49
30 Hong Kong158-156-155-160=629+53
31 Indonesia157-154-163-163=637+61
32 Netherlands160-157-162-161=640+64

International Trophy

# Player Country Score To par Money (US$)
1Ben Crenshaw United States68-67-66-74=275−1350,000
T2Dave Barr Canada70-67-65-75=276−12
Tateo Ozaki Japan68-69-67-72=276
4Peter Senior Australia70-68-70-70=277−11
T5Gordon Brand Jnr Scotland71-66-73-69=279−9
Rafael Navarro Brazil71-74-66-68=279
7Rafael Alarcon Mexico69-72-67-75=283−5
T8Li Wen-cheng Taiwan69-66-75-74=284−4
Roger Mackay Australia73-63-72-76=284
Frank Nobilo New Zealand67-69-70-78=284
Ronan Rafferty Ireland71-70-68-75=284

Sources:[3][4]

References

  1. McCormack, Mark H. (1989). World of Professional Golf 1989. Collins Willow. pp. 489–491. ISBN 000218284X.
  2. "Venezuela's Vegas brothers look to double down in Melbourne". PGA Tour. 27 October 2016.
  3. "World Cup". Svensk Golf. January 1989. pp. 60–63.
  4. "Crenshaw, McCumber give U.S. 1-shot win in World Cup tourney". The Desert Sun. Associated Press. 12 December 1988. pp. C5, C7.

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