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1968 World Cup (men's Golf)

The 1968 World Cup took place 14–17 November at the Olgiata Golf Club in Rome, Italy. It was the 16th World Cup event, which was named the Canada Cup until 1966 and changed its name to the World Cup in 1967. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 42 teams. The third round on Saturday was interrupted by hail and rain storm, with six teams still on the course and play was resumed early Sunday. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The Canadian team of Al Balding and George Knudson won by two strokes ahead of the United States team of Julius Boros and Lee Trevino. The individual competition was won by Balding, five strokes ahead of Roberto Bernardini, Italy. This was the first team victory for Canada in the event, which was founded in Canada in 1953.

Teams

Country Players
 Argentina Roberto De Vicenzo and Bono Tudino
 Australia Bill Dunk and Col Johnston
 Austria Oswald Gartenmaier and Hans Stroll
 Belgium Donald Swaelens and Flory Van Donck
 Brazil Jose Maria Gonzalez and Mário Gonzalez
 Canada Al Balding and George Knudson
 Chile Francisco Cerda and Enrique Orelanna
 Colombia Alfonso Bohorquez and Rogelio Gonzalez
 China Hsieh Yung-yo and Lu Liang-Huan
 Czechoslovakia Jiří Dvořák (a) and Jan Kunšta (a)
 Denmark Herluf Hansen and Henning Kristensen
 England Neil Coles and Bernard Hunt
 Finland Jalo Grönlund (a) and Sigurd Nyström
 France Roger Cotton and Jean Garaïalde
 Greece Aris Simeonoglou (a) and John Sotiropoulos (a)
 Hawaii Morgan Fottrell and Guinea Kop
 Ireland Jimmy Kinsella and Christy O'Connor Snr
 Italy Roberto Bernardini and Alfonso Angelini
 Japan Kenji Hosoishi and Takaaki Kono
 Mexico Antonio Cerdá and Juan Neri
 Monaco Jean Baptiste Ado and Jean Charles Rey (a)
 Morocco Omar Ben El Harcha and Meilouki M'Bareck
 Netherlands Martin Roesink and Bertus Van Mook
 New Zealand Bob Charles and Walter Godfrey
 Norway Westye Hoegh (a) and Lars Musaeus (a)
 Peru Bernabé Fajardo and Hugo Nari
 Philippines Ireneo Legaspi and Eleuterio Nival
 Portugal Manual Ribeiro and Joauim Rodrigues
 Puerto Rico David Jiménez and Chi-Chi Rodríguez
 Scotland Eric Brown and John Panton
 Singapore Phua Thin Kiay (a) and Alvin Liau
 South Africa Cobie Legrange and Gary Player
 South Korea Han Chang-sang and Lee Il-an
 Spain Sebastián Miguel and Ramón Sota
 Sweden Åke Bergquist and Harry Karlsson-Fakt
 Switzerland Jacky Bonvin and Ronald Tingley
 United Arab Republic Cherif El Sayed and Abdel Halim
 United States Julius Boros and Lee Trevino
 Uruguay Jan Carlos Dapiaggi and Clever Mendez
 Venezuela F.D. Betancourt and Ramón Muñoz
 Wales Richard Davies and Brian Huggett
 West Germany Hans Heiser and Toni Kugelmuller

(a) denotes amateur

Scores

Team

Place Country Score To par Money (US$)
1  Canada 142-149-137-141=569 −7 2,000
2  United States 142-141-143-145=571 −5 1,000
3  Italy 141-147-140-145=573 −3 800
4  China 139-144-143-150=576 E 400
5  Spain 144-148-139-149=580 +4
6  South Africa 148-144-147-145=584 +8
7  New Zealand 144-149-141-151=585 +9
8  Wales 143-148-145-150=586 +10
9  Argentina 145-145-150-147=587 +11
T10  England 140-150-145-153=588 +12
 Ireland 149-139-148-152=588
 Japan 149-142-150-147=588
13  Scotland 145-146-144-155=590 +14
14  Australia 148-146-148-150=592 +16
15  Colombia 153-148-146-147=594 +18
16  Puerto Rico 151-149-153-143=596 +20
17  South Korea 151-144-151-151=597 +21
18  West Germany 150-146-152-151=599 +23
19  Belgium 146-149-153-156=604 +28
20  Mexico 147-149-157-152=605 +29
21  Denmark 152-154-146-155=607 +31
22  Brazil 156-145-157-153=611 +35
T23  Peru 155-152-154-153=614 +38
 United Arab Republic 153-154-150-157=614
25  France 153-151-152-160=616 +40
26  Netherlands 153-150-162-153=618 +42
27  Chile 155-146-162-161=624 +48
28  Philippines 159-157-153-159=628 +52
29  Switzerland 152-154-161-166=633 +57
30  Venezuela 160-153-163-161=637 +61
T31  Hawaii 166-157-165-152=640 +64
 Sweden 157-157-168-158=640
33  Uruguay 158-161-164-160=643 +67
34  Singapore 154-160-166-164=644 +68
35  Norway 157-166-161-166=650 +74
36  Monaco 160-162-163-168=653 +77
37  Czechoslovakia 163-161-169-163=656 +80
38  Morocco 166-166-165-160=657 +81
39  Portugal 168-158-163-172=661 +85
40  Finland 162-162-172-173=669 +93
41  Greece 166-165-173-168=672 +96
42  Austria 173-171-170-166=680 +104

International Trophy

Place Player Country Score To par Money (US$)
1 Al Balding  Canada 68-72-67-67=274 −14 1,000
2 Roberto Bernardini  Italy 71-71-67-70=279 −9 500
3 Lee Trevino  United States 69-71-70-73=283 −5 400
T4 Brian Huggett  Wales 71-70-71-73=285 −3 100
Gary Player  South Africa 71-70-74-70=285
T6 Eric Brown  Scotland 70-69-70-77=286 −2
Lu Liang-Huan  China 69-69-72-76=286
8 Ramón Sota  Spain 71-73-71-72=287 −1
T9 Julius Boros  United States 73-70-73-72=288 E
Bill Dunk  Australia 72-75-70-71=288

Sources:

References

  1. ^ "World Cup". Svensk Golf. January 1969. pp. 13, 30.
  2. ^ Jenkins, Dan (25 November 1968). "Golf Tournament Italian Style". Sports Illustrated. pp. 30–31.
  3. ^ Doty, Robert (18 November 1968). "Canada Upsets U.S. for World Cup". The Sun. San Bernardino, California. New York Times News Service. p. B-5.
  4. ^ "Canada Breaks U.S. Golf Cup Monopoly". Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. CP-AP. 18 November 1968. p. 9.
  5. ^ Reedy, Tom (18 November 1968). "Canada Puts Names On World Cup Golf". Santa Cruz Sentinel. California. Associated Press. p. 6.
  6. ^ "Italy: Taiwan Take First Round Lead In World Golf – 1968". Reuters. 14 November 1968 – via British Pathé.
  7. ^ "More on golf: All the scores". The Province. Vancouver, British Columbia. Associated Press. 18 November 1968. p. 18 – via newspapers.com.

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