Loading
  • 21 Aug, 2019

  • By, Wikipedia

1960 Eisenhower Trophy

The 1960 Eisenhower Trophy took place September 28 to October 1 at the Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. It was the second World Amateur Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 32 four-man teams. The best three scores for each round counted towards the team total.

United States won the Eisenhower Trophy, finishing 42 strokes ahead of the silver medalists, Australia. Great Britain and Ireland finished five strokes behind Australia and took the bronze medal while South Africa finished fourth. Jack Nicklaus completed the four rounds in 269, 13 strokes better than anyone else and 19 strokes better than the best non-American, Bruce Devlin.

Teams

32 teams contested the event. Each team had four players with the exception of Ceylon and the United Arab Republic who were represented by only three players. Of the teams that competed in 1958, Iceland, Kenya and Spain were not represented. Ceylon, Denmark, Mexico, Peru, Rhodesia & Nyasaland and the United Arab Republic were represented for the first time.

Country Players
 Argentina Roberto Benito, Guillermo Carman, Jorge Ledesma, Angel Monguzzi
 Australia Ted Ball, Jack Coogan, Bruce Devlin, Eric Routley
 Austria Hugo Hild, Fritz Jonak, Alexander Maculan, Klaus Nierlich
 Belgium Jacky Moerman, Eric Taveruier, Philippe Washer, Freddy Rodesch
 Bermuda Joseph T. DeCosta, James A. Pearman, Richard S.L. Pearman, George E. Wardman
 Brazil Humberto de Almeida, Joao Barbosa, Fernando Chaves Barcellos, Carlos Sozio
 Canada Keith Alexander, Gary Cowan, John Johnston, Bob Wylie
 Ceylon W. Pinsiri Fernando, J. Francis Silva, C. Upali Senanayake
 Republic of China Chang Tung-chang, C.C. Chen, Jeffrey Koo, Stanley Shen
 Denmark Herluf Hansen, John Jacobsen, Henrik Lund, Erik Staerk
 Finland Jalo Grönlund, Pentti E. Nurminen, T. Nyström, Mauri O. Vikström
 France Marius Bardana, Jean Pierre Cros, Patrick Cros, Henri de Lamaze
 Great Britain
&  Ireland
Michael Bonallack, Joe Carr, Doug Sewell, Guy Wolstenholme
 India A.S. Malik, I.S. Malik, R.K. Pitamber, P. G. Sethi
 Italy Eduardo Bergamo, Nadi Berruti, Franco Bevione, Alberto Schiaffino
 Japan Kiyoshi Ishimoto, Takeaki Kaneda, Ginjiro Nakabe, Makoto Tanaka
 Malaya Choong Ewe Seong, T.S. Leong, Patrick Lim, H. Y. Loh
 Mexico Juan Antonio Estrada, Roberto Halpern, Rafael Quiroz, Mauricio Urdaneta
 Netherlands Robbie E. van Erven Dorens, Joan F. Dudok van Heel, Jani A.R. Roland Holst, Ajef F. Knappert
 New Zealand Bob Charles, Walter Godfrey, Stuart Jones, Ross Newdick
 Norway Jan Aaseth, John Johansen, Kåre Kittilsen, Arve Pedersen
 Peru Luis Fraser, Luis Larrabure, Alfonso Noriega, Carlos A. Raffo
 Philippines Augustin Coscolluela Jr, Melanio Gana, Alejandro Prieto, Luis F. Silverio
 Portugal Nuno Alberto de Brito e Cunha, Duarte Espirito Santo Silva, Visconte de Pereira Machado, Jose de Sousa e Melo
 Rhodesia and Nyasaland Benny Brews, John Drysdale, Dave Proctor, Ken Treloar
 South Africa Murray Grindrod, Jannie le Roux, Reg Taylor, Arthur Walker
 Sweden Gustaf Adolf Bielke, Rune Karlfeldt, Lennart Leinborn, Göran Lindeblad
 Switzerland Olivier Barras, Otto Dillier, Peter Gutermann, Hans Schweizer
 United Arab Republic Vladimir Blazek, Marwan Djeddaoui, Zakaria Taber
 United States Deane Beman, Robert W. Gardner, Bill Hyndman, Jack Nicklaus
 Venezuela Alfredo A. Behrens, Jack Corrie, Julio L. Torres, Rafael E. Vaamonde
 West Germany Walter Bruschne, Hans Lampert, Peter Möller, Erik Sellschopp

Scores

Place Country Score To par
1st place, gold medalist(s)  United States 208-205-203-218=834 −6
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Australia 219-220-215-222=876 +36
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Great Britain
&  Ireland
218-215-221-227=881 +41
4  South Africa 220-225-215-233=893 +53
5  New Zealand 217-225-220-233=895 +55
6  Canada 230-220-222-234=906 +66
7  Mexico 217-225-227-240=909 +69
8  Rhodesia and Nyasaland 224-226-223-241=914 +74
9  Argentina 225-228-224-240=917 +77
10  Sweden 227-228-229-239=923 +83
11  Italy 227-229-233-246=935 +95
12  France 226-232-232-247=937 +97
13  West Germany 236-230-226-248=940 +100
14  Philippines 230-229-232-251=942 +102
15  Denmark 230-231-243-248=952 +112
16  Japan 237-231-245-241=954 +114
17  Belgium 231-242-244-243=960 +120
18  Venezuela 245-231-238-248=962 +122
19  Brazil 235-244-239-254=972 +132
20  India 233-244-245-253=975 +135
T21  Republic of China 237-240-240-260=977 +137
 Switzerland 238-248-243-248=977
23  Norway 239-243-240-257=979 +139
24  Peru 242-258-245-254=999 +159
25  Bermuda 243-252-248-258=1001 +161
26  Austria 244-247-248-266=1005 +165
27  Netherlands 250-245-252-261=1008 +168
28  Finland 246-259-264-254=1023 +183
29  Portugal 250-259-247-279=1035 +195
30  United Arab Republic 263-255-256-271=1045 +205
31  Malaya 263-271-282-283=1099 +259
32  Ceylon 271-265-282-286=1104 +264

Individual leaders

There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.

Place Player Country Score To par
1 Jack Nicklaus  United States 66-67-68-68=269 −11
2 Deane Beman  United States 71-67-69-75=282 +2
3 Bruce Devlin  Australia 74-70-70-74=288 +8
T4 Robert W. Gardner  United States 71-71-68-79=289 +9
Bill Hyndman  United States 71-76-67-75=289
T6 Bob Charles  New Zealand 70-75-70-76=291 +11
Eric Routley  Australia 72-75-72-72=291
8 Juan Antonio Estrada  Mexico 71-72-76-75=294 +14
9 Jannie le Roux  South Africa 74-75-72-74=295 +15
10 Michael Bonallack  Great Britain
&  Ireland
73-72-73-78=296 +16

Sources:

References

  1. ^ "Record Book 2nd World Amateur Golf Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy" (PDF). World Amateur Golf Council. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
  2. ^ Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 150–152. ISBN 9172603283.
  3. ^ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 180–183. ISBN 91-86818007.
  4. ^ "Golf-VM genom åren, VM-resultat genom tiderna" [World Team Championship through the years]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 8. August 1988. pp. 176–177. Retrieved 29 December 2020.

40°00′04″N 75°18′43″W / 40.001°N 75.312°W / 40.001; -75.312