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1961 Canada Cup

The 1961 Canada Cup took place June 1–4 at Dorado Beach in Dorado, Puerto Rico. It was the ninth Canada Cup event, which became the World Cup in 1967. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 33 teams. These were the same teams that had competed in 1960 but without Central Africa and with the addition of Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The American team of Jimmy Demaret and Sam Snead won by 12 strokes over the Australian team of Kel Nagle and Peter Thomson. The individual competition was won by Sam Snead, with a tournament record score of 272, finishing eight shots ahead of Peter Thomson.

Teams

Country Players
 Argentina Fidel de Luca and Leopoldo Ruiz
 Australia Kel Nagle and Peter Thomson
 Belgium Donald Swaelens and Flory Van Donck
 Brazil José Maria Gonzalez and Mário Gonzalez
 Canada Al Balding and Al Johnston
 Chile Anisio Araya and Enrique Orellana
 China Chen Ching-Po and Hsieh Yung-yo
 Colombia Alfonso Bohórquez and Miguel Sala
 Denmark Henning Kristensen and Carl Paulsen
 Egypt Cherif El-Sayed Cherif and Mohamed Said Moussa
 England Peter Alliss and Brian Bamford
 France Jean Garaïalde and François Saubaber
 Ireland Norman Drew and Christy O'Connor Snr
 Italy Alfonso Angelini and Carlo Grappasonni
 Japan Tadashi Kitsuta and Torakichi Nakamura
 Mexico Roberto De Vicenzo and Juan Antonio Estrada (a)
 Netherlands Cees Cramer and Gerard de Wit
 New Zealand Michael Busk and Ernie Southerden
 Paraguay Luis Boschian and Elcido Nari
 Peru Eugenio Dunezat and Wilfredo Uculmana
 Philippines Ben Arda and Celestino Tugot
 Portugal Henrique Paulino and Fernando Pina
 Puerto Rico Pete Cooper and Chi-Chi Rodríguez
 Scotland Eric Brown and John Panton
 South Africa Harold Henning and Retief Waltman
 Spain Sebastián Miguel and Ramón Sota
 Sweden Harry Karlsson and Arne Werkell
 Switzerland Jacky Bonvin and Otto Schoepfer
 United States Jimmy Demaret and Sam Snead
 Uruguay Juan Sereda and Pascual Viola
 Venezuela Francisco Gonzales and Teobaldo Perez
 Wales Dai Rees and Dave Thomas
 West Germany Hans Bessner and Willi Jersombeck

(a) - denotes amateur

Source

The Canadian Stan Leonard, American Arnold Palmer and South African Gary Player withdrew from the event. The Canada Cup was played at the same time as the Memphis Open, an official event on the 1961 PGA Tour. Under a PGA Tour rule, the three, as winners of official PGA Tour events in the previous 12 months, were unable to play in non-tour events where they clashed with official events. The sponsors of the Memphis Open refused to allow the three to play in the Canada Cup with the result that the players withdrew from both events. They were replaced by Al Johnston, Jimmy Demaret and Harold Henning.

Scores

Team

Place Country Score To par Money (US$)
1  United States 140-137-144-139=560 −16 2,000
2  Australia 143-140-146-143=572 −4 1,000
3  Canada 147-142-151-139=579 +3 800
4  Ireland 147-151-144-140=582 +6 400
5  Philippines 145-143-148-149=585 +9
6  Wales 144-149-154-140=587 +11
7  Puerto Rico 149-149-146-145=589 +13
8  South Africa 149-147-146-149=591 +15
9  Argentina 146-151-146-150=593 +17
T10  Belgium 151-146-150-147=594 +18
 China 147-148-148-151=594
T12  Japan 154-146-147-148=595 +19
 Scotland 147-150-151-147=595
14  Mexico 147-152-150-147=596 +20
15  England 148-153-149-149=599 +23
T16  Colombia 146-157-153-145=601 +25
 Spain 148-150-153-150=601
18  Egypt 146-150-158-150=604 +28
19  France 151-154-148-152=605 +29
20  Brazil 149-155-156-150=610 +34
21  Italy 152-158-151-152=613 +37
22  Venezuela 155-151-160-153=619 +43
23  New Zealand 161-157-157-150=625 +49
24  Netherlands 156-155-156-161=628 +52
25  Uruguay 154-158-161-157=630 +54
26  Sweden 160-156-164-153=633 +57
T27  Chile 165-160-153-156=634 +58
 Peru 169-152-153-160=634
 Switzerland 158-155-162-159=634
30  West Germany 156-162-160-164=642 +66
31  Denmark 162-159-164-158=643 +67
32  Paraguay 170-165-155-159=649 +73
33  Portugal 162-164-163-166=655 +79

Source

International Trophy

Place Player Country Score To par Money (US$)
1 Sam Snead  United States 67-67-70-68=272 −16 1,000
2 Peter Thomson  Australia 69-71-70-70=280 −8 500
3 Christy O'Connor Snr  Ireland 73-72-68-69=282 −6 400
4 Al Balding  Canada 69-70-75-69=283 −5 200
5 Ben Arda  Philippines 69-69-72-76=286 −2
T6 Peter Alliss  England 72-72-71-73=288 E
Jimmy Demaret  United States 73-70-74-71=288
8 Chi-Chi Rodríguez  Puerto Rico 74-73-72-71=290 +2
T9 Kel Nagle  Australia 74-69-76-73=292 +4
Dave Thomas  Wales 71-76-77-68=292

Source

References

  1. ^ "Snead fires 67, Demaret 73: Century Club Golfers Lead". The Daily Sun. San Bernardino, California. Associated Press. June 2, 1961. p. D-3.
  2. ^ "Americans' easy win in Canada Cup". The Glasgow Herald. June 5, 1961. p. 4.
  3. ^ "Canada Cup golf scores". Chicago Tribune. Associated Press. June 5, 1961. p. F-3. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
  4. ^ "PGA rocked by disputes over tournament, membership rules" (PDF). Golfdom. June 1961. p. 40. Retrieved December 30, 2016.
  5. ^ "U.S. keeps Canada Cup; Sam Snead's 272 wins individual championship". Chicago Tribune. Associated Press. June 5, 1961. pp. F–1, F–3. Retrieved December 30, 2016.

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