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1979 World Cup (men's golf)

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1979 World Cup
Tournament information
Dates8–11 November
LocationAthens, Greece
37°52′N 23°45′E / 37.867°N 23.750°E / 37.867; 23.750
Course(s)Glyfada Golf Club
Format72 holes stroke play
combined score
Statistics
Par72
Length6,809 yards (6,226 m)
Field45 two-man teams
CutNone
Winner's share$6,000 team
$3,000 individual
Champion
 United States
Hale Irwin & John Mahaffey
575 (−1)
Location map
Glyfada GC is located in Europe
Glyfada GC
Glyfada GC
Location in Europe
Glyfada GC is located in Balkans
Glyfada GC
Glyfada GC
Location in Balkans
Glyfada GC is located in Greece
Glyfada GC
Glyfada GC
Location in Greece
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The 1979 World Cup took place 8–11 November at the Glyfada Golf Club, 13 kilometres south of the city center of Athens, Greece, located in the Athens Riviera. It was the 27th World Cup event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 46 notified teams. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The South Africa team was invited to the event and their team of Hugh Baiocchi and Dale Hayes took part in practice and pro-am competition, but was informed by the Greece government shortly before the beginning of competition, they were not allowed to start.[1] The combined score of each team determined the team results. The United States team of John Mahaffey and Hale Irwin won by ten strokes over the Scotland team of Ken Brown and Sandy Lyle.

The individual competition for the International Trophy was won by Irwin two strokes ahead of Bernhard Langer, West Germany and Lyle, Scotland.

Teams

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Country Players
 Argentina Jorge Soto and Adan Sowa
 Australia Colin Bishop and Ross Metherell
 Austria Oswald Gartenmaier and Rudolfo Hauser
 Belgium Philippe Toussaint and Flory Van Donck
 Brazil Jaime Gonzalez and Rafael Navarro
 Burma Maun Pyone and Ko Ko Lay
 Canada Dan Halldorson and Jim Nelford
 Chile Francisco Cerda and Patricio Valenzuela
 Colombia Luis Arevalo and Juan Pinzon
 Denmark Herluf Hansen and Jorgen Korfitsen
 Dominican Republic Jack Corrie and Guillermo Gomez
 Egypt Farouk Badr and Mohamed Said Moussa
 England Mark James and Michael King
 Fiji Aran Kumar and Bose Lutunatabua
 France Jean Garaïalde and Bernard Pascassio
 Greece Bassili Anastassiou (a) and Bassili Karatzas (a)
 Guatemala Roberto Galindo and Hilario Polo
 Hong Kong Lai Wai Che and Peter Tang
 Indonesia Engrun Tiahyana and Murat Satibi
 Ireland Eddie Polland and Des Smyth
 Israel Laurie Been (a) and Neil Schochet (a)
 Italy Baldovino Dassù and Delio Lovato
 Japan Kazuo Yoshikawa and Kaichi Inoue
 Lebanon Ziki Mukdad and Robert Prince
 Malaysia Marimuthu Ramayah and Nazamuddin Yusof[2]
 Mexico Enrique Serna and Victor Regalado
 Netherlands Jan Dorrestein and Simon Van Den Berg
 New Zealand Craig Owen and Barry Vivian
 Norway Ole Hammer (a) and Johan Horn (a)
 Philippines Eleuterio Nival and Rudy Lavares
 Portugal Sebastiao Gil and Domingo Silva
 Scotland Ken Brown and Sandy Lyle
 Singapore Lim Swee Wah and Poh Eng Chong
 South Korea Cho Tae-ho and Choi Yoon-soo
 Spain Antonio Garrido and Manuel Piñero
 Sweden Sayed Cherif and Jan Sonnevi
 Switzerland Patrick Bagnoud and Mauric Salmini
 Taiwan Chen Tze-ming and Lu Hsi-chuen
 Thailand Sukree Onsham and Archin Sopon
 United States Hale Irwin and John Mahaffey
 Venezuela Noel Machado and Ramón Muñoz
 Wales Brian Huggett and David Vaughan
 West Germany Manfred Kessler and Bernhard Langer
 Yugoslavia Rafael Jerman (a) and Marko Vovk (a)

(a) denotes amateur

Note: Sayed Cherif was representing Sweden, having played for Egypt in previous World Cup events.

Scores

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Team

Place Country Score To par Money (US$)
1  United States 141-141-152-141=575 −1 6,000
2  Scotland 145-145-150-140=580 +4 3,000
3  Spain 147-153-144-146=590 +14
4  Brazil 148-144-153-148=593 +17
5  Taiwan 144-149-146-155=594 +18
6  Ireland 150-153-148-146=597 +21
T7  Canada 150-148-155-146=599 +23
 Japan 147-150-151-151=599
T9  England 153-145-147-155=600 +24
 France 151-150-150-149=600
T11  Malaysia 149-154-149-150=602 +26
 West Germany 160-145-150-147=602
13  Mexico 150-150-152-153=605 +29
14  Colombia 151-153-152-152=608 +32
15  New Zealand 156-155-150-149=610 +34
16  Venezuela 151-155-150-157=613 +37
17  Belgium 154-154-154-153=615 +39
18  South Korea 152-154-151-161=618 +42
T19  Philippines 147-154-157-161=619 +43
 Wales 150-157-155-157=619
21  Argentina 160-158-148-155=621 +45
22  Chile 155-159-160-148=622 +46
23  Greece 159-160-154-153=626 +50
24  Thailand 165-158-154-151=628 +52
T25  Australia 160-166-153-155=634 +58
 Sweden 158-162-154-160=634
27  Denmark 161-163-155-157=636 +60
28  Austria 166-155-155-161=637 +61
29  Netherlands 161-161-154-162=638 +62
30  Egypt 162-157-159-161=639 +63
T31  Guatemala 162-162-154-162=640 +64
 Switzerland 162-158-161-159=640
T33  Hong Kong 158-156-162-167=643 +67
 Singapore 162-168-162-151=643
T35  Dominican Republic 160-156-166-164=646 +70
 Portugal 159-164-156-167=646
37  Indonesia 169-164-158-163=654 +78
38  Lebanon 172-157-158-168=655 +79
39  Norway 169-165-158-170=662 +86
40  Fiji 166-178-159-163=666 +90
41  Burma 167-168-170-163=668 +92
42  Israel 165-172-169-177=683 +107
43  Paraguay 170-174-183-175=702 +126
44  Yugoslavia 188-186-177-184=735 +159
DQ  Italy 158-143-148-DQ

Dassù of Italy was disqualified after signing an incorrect scorecard.[3]

International Trophy

Place Player Country Score To par Money US$
1 Hale Irwin  United States 74-70-72-69=285 −3 3,000
T2 Bernhard Langer  West Germany 74-70-71-71=287 −1
Sandy Lyle  Scotland 72-73-73-69=287
4 Jaime Gonzalez  Brazil 73-71-72-72=288 E
5 Antonio Garrido  Spain 74-76-66-73=289 +1
6 John Mahaffey  United States 67-71-80-72=290 +2
7 Ramón Muñoz  Venezuela 72-78-70-72=292 +4
T8 Ken Brown  Scotland 73-72-77-71=293 +5
Lu Hsi-chuen  Taiwan 71-73-72-77=293
Kazuo Yoshikawa  Japan 71-74-73-75=293

Sources:[4][5][1][6][7][8][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "U.S. Takes World Cup Golf Title". Santa Cruz Sentinel. Associated Press. 12 November 1979. p. 12.
  2. ^ "Venezuela's Vegas brothers look to double down in Melbourne". PGA Tour. 27 October 2016.
  3. ^ a b "U.S. keeps team lead in World Cup Golf Competition". The Galveston Daily News. Texas. UPI. 11 November 1979. p. 5-C – via newspaper.com.
  4. ^ "World Cup". Svensk Golf. December 1979. pp. 60, 69.
  5. ^ "World Cup Golf Results". The Desert Sun. 12 November 1979. p. B2.
  6. ^ Radosta, John S. (11 November 1979). "World Cup Stresses Friendship". The New York Times.
  7. ^ "Irwin, Mahaffey cop World Cup". Pacific Stars and Stripes. 13 November 1979. p. 19.
  8. ^ "World Cup finals". The Spokesman-Review. Spokane, Washington. Associated Press. 12 November 1979. p. 22 – via newspaper.com.