1974 Eisenhower Trophy
The 1974 Eisenhower Trophy took place 30 October to 2 November at the Casa de Campo in La Romana, Dominican Republic. It was the ninth World Amateur Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 35 four-man teams. The best three scores for each round counted towards the team total.
The United States won the Eisenhower Trophy for the fourth successive time, finishing 10 strokes ahead of the silver medalists, Japan. Brazil took the bronze medal while South Africa finished fourth. Jaime Gonzalez from Brazil and American Jerry Pate had the lowest individual scores, six-over-par 294.
The event was originally planned to be played in Malaysia but was moved because of the inability of all member countries to compete there as the Malaysian government's policy prohibited entry into Malaysia of representatives of South Africa.
Teams
35 teams contested the event. Each team except one had four players. The team representing El Salvador had only three players.
| Country | Players |
|---|---|
 Argentina |
Horacio Carbonetti, Juan Carlos Devoto, Jorge Ledesma, Roberto Monguzzi |
 Australia |
Terry Gale, Tony Gresham, Colin Kaye, Phil Wood |
 Bahamas
|
Valdo Prosa, Brendan Lynch, Valdo Prosa, Michael Taylor |
 Belgium
|
John Bigwood, Benoit Dumont, Eric Boyer, Fredric Rodesch |
 Bermuda
|
Brendam Ingham, Lois Moniz, Bill Pitt, Noel van Putten |
 Brazil |
Priscillo Diniz, Jaime Gonzalez, Rafael Navarro, Ricardo Rossi |
 Canada |
Pierre Archambault, Bruce Brewer, Ken Doig, Doug Roxburgh |
 Chile
|
Roberto Desmaras, Mauricio Galeno, Edmund Grasty, Felipe Taverne |
 Chinese Taipei |
Chang Ter-kuei, Chen Tze-ming, Hung Wen-nung, Liao Kuo-chih |
 Colombia
|
Albert Evers, Gustavo Giraldo, Alfonso Linares, Fernando Sanchez |
 Dominican Republic
|
Ramon Baez Jr, Jack Corrie, Luis F. Henriquez, Luis Hernandez |
 Ecuador
|
Fernando Fiore, Isidro Icaza, Joe Monge, Danilo Murtinho |
 El Salvador
|
Guillermo Aceto, Mauricio Alvarez,José Duran |
 France |
Patrick Cotton, Alexis Godillot, George Leven, Philippe Ploujoux |
 Great Britain&  Ireland |
John Davies, Richard Eyles, Peter Hedges, Ian Hutcheon |
 Iceland
|
Johann Benediktsson, E. Gudnasson, J. Holton, Torbjörn Kjaerbo, |
 Italy
|
Antonio Lionello, Massimo Mannelli, Lorenzo Silva, Giuseppe Sita |
 Jamaica
|
Stafford Demarcado, Herman McDonald, Ian Sturdy, Bill Ward |
 Japan |
Ginjiro Nakabe, Tsutomu Irie, Tetsuo Sakata, Satoshi Yamazaki |
 Mexico
|
Rafael Alarcón, Oscar Fernandez, Tomás Lehmann, José Ortega |
 Netherlands
|
Carel Braun, Jaap van Neck, Victor Swane, Tony Trienen |
 New Zealand
|
Richard Coombes, Ted McDougall, Ross Murray, Michael Nicholson |
 Norway
|
Erik Dønnestad, Westye Høegh, Asbjørn Ramnefjell, Alexander Vik |
 Panama
|
Francisco Arias, Leo Dehlinger, Anibal Galindo, Antonio de Janon |
 Papua New Guinea
|
Wayne Brittain, Greg Fennell, Tony Gover, John Keating |
 Puerto Rico
|
Welby van Horn, Butch James, Victor Morales, James Teale |
 Rhodesia
|
George Harvey, Mark McNulty, Denis Watson, Teddy Webber |
 South Africa |
Coen Dreyer, Jeff Hawkes, Robbie Meier, Neville Sundelson |
 South Korea
|
Il Keun Kim, Mee Rang Kim, Youn Chang Kim, Won Taek Park |
 Spain
|
Eduardo de la Riva, Snr, José Gancedo, Nicasio Sagardia, Roman Taya |
 Sweden |
Olle Dahlgren, Hans Hedjerson, Göran Lundquist, Jan Rube |
 Switzerland
|
Yves Hofstetter, Martin Kessler, Michel Rey, Johnny Storjohann |
 United States |
George Burns, Gary Koch, Jerry Pate, Curtis Strange |
 Venezuela
|
Jonathan Coles, Gustavo Larrazabal, Carlos Plaza, Carlos Whaite |
 West Germany
|
Peter Jochums, Uwe Nievert, Veit Pagel, Christoph Stadler |
Scores
| Place | Country | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|
 |
United States |
224-221-219-224=888 | +24 |
 |
Japan |
226-226-219-227=898 | +34 |
 |
Brazil |
225-229-221-226=901 | +37 |
| 4 | South Africa |
227-223-225-233=908 | +44 |
| 5 | Australia |
235-231-229-221=916 | +52 |
| 6 | Great Britain & Ireland |
227-233-228-234=922 | +58 |
| 7 | Chinese Taipei |
243-227-228-230=928 | +64 |
| 8 | Argentina |
239-227-231-234=931 | +67 |
| 9 | Canada |
238-239-224-231=932 | +68 |
| T10 | France |
245-230-235-226=936 | +72 |
| Sweden |
237-234-235-230=936 | ||
| 12 | West Germany |
242-232-231-234=939 | +75 |
| 13 | Spain |
237-242-229-233=941 | +77 |
| 14 | Rhodesia |
247-233-228-234=942 | +78 |
| 15 | New Zealand |
241-237-236-233=947 | +83 |
| 16 | Venezuela |
241-243-236-236=956 | +92 |
| 17 | Switzerland |
245-242-233-239=959 | +95 |
| 18 | Italy |
240-241-232-247=960 | +96 |
| 19 | Papua New Guinea |
245-234-231-251=961 | +97 |
| 20 | Mexico |
248-231-240-243=962 | +98 |
| 21 | Netherlands |
248-239-244-233=964 | +100 |
| 22 | Chile |
250-244-238-237=969 | +105 |
| 23 | Belgium |
242-239-246-243=970 | +106 |
| 24 | Colombia |
250-244-235-251=980 | +116 |
| 25 | South Korea |
250-247-252-236=985 | +121 |
| 26 | Panama |
251-249-246-242=988 | +124 |
| 27 | Ecuador |
260-243-236-250=989 | +125 |
| T28 | Jamaica |
244-254-244-248=990 | +126 |
| Norway |
255-246-244-245=990 | ||
| 30 | Dominican Republic |
257-250-246-245=998 | +134 |
| 31 | Puerto Rico |
244-251-253-255=1003 | +139 |
| 32 | Bermuda |
250-246-255-253=1004 | +140 |
| 33 | Bahamas |
261-248-270-267=1046 | +182 |
| 34 | Iceland |
288-290-268-263=1109 | +245 |
| 35 | El Salvador |
282-288-274-282=1126 | +262 |
Source:
Individual leaders
There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | Jaime Gonzalez | Brazil |
73-74-74-73=294 | +6 |
| Jerry Pate | United States |
73-77-73-71=294 | ||
| 3 | Satoshi Yamazaki | Japan |
73-75-76-71=295 | +7 |
| 4 | George Burns | United States |
74-76-70-77=297 | +9 |
| T5 | Priscillo Diniz | Brazil |
73-80-70-77=300 | +12 |
| Terry Gale | Australia |
78-75-75-72=300 | ||
| 7 | Gary Koch | United States |
79-70-76-76=301 | +13 |
| 8 | Robbie Meier | South Africa |
72-76-73-81=302 | +14 |
| 9 | Coen Dreyer | South Africa |
76-75-73-80=304 | +16 |
| T10 | Tsutomu Irie | Japan |
75-77-73-80=305 | +17 |
| Jeff Hawkes | South Africa |
79-72-79-75=305 |
Source:
References
- ^ "Golf Switch". The Tribune. Nassau and Bahama Islands. 1 August 1974. p. 12. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ "Record Book 1974 World Amateur Golf Team Championships" (PDF). World Amateur Golf Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 October 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
- ^ "Golf-VM genom åren, VM-resultat genom tiderna" [World Team Championship through the years]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 8. August 1988. pp. 168–170, 174–175. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ^ Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 178. ISBN 9172603283.
- ^ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 180, 182. ISBN 91-86818007.
External links
- Record Book on International Golf Federation website Archived 2018-10-28 at the Wayback Machine