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1978 Eisenhower Trophy
The 1978 Eisenhower Trophy took place 18 to 21 October at the Pacific Harbour Golf & Country Club in Navua, Viti Levu, Fiji. It was the 11th World Amateur Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 24 four-man teams. The best three scores for each round counted towards the team total.

United States won the Eisenhower Trophy for the seventh time, finishing 13 strokes ahead of the silver medalists, Canada. Australia took the bronze medal, five strokes further behind, while New Zealand finished fourth. Bobby Clampett, United States, had the lowest individual score, one-under-par 287.

After the 1974 Eisenhower Trophy was moved from Malaysia to the Dominican Republic, the 1978 event had been allocated to the Asia/Australasia zone with the 1980 event allocated to the American zone and the 1982 event to the Europe/Africa zone.

Teams

24 teams contested the event. Each team except one had four players. The team representing South Korea had only three.

Country Players
 Argentina Louis Carbonetti, Luis Daneri, Jorge Eiras, Oscar Vetere
 Australia Chris Bonython, Tony Gresham, Peter Sweeney, Phil Wood
 Austria Rudi Bondenseer, Max Lamberg, Johann Lamberg, Klaus Nierlich
 Belgium Benoit Dumont, Bruno Dupont, Thierry Goosens, Philippe Relecom
 Bermuda Lois Moniz, Kim Swan, Eric Hav Trott, Llewellyn Tucker
 Brazil Roberto Gomez, Rafael Gonzalez, Marco Ruberti, Marcello Stallone
 Canada Gary Cowan, Dave Mick, Doug Roxburgh, Yves Tremblay
 Fiji Rahim Buksh, Raymond Fisher, Eremasi Lutunatabua, Rafiq Mohammed
 France François Illouz, Jean Ignace Mouhica, Tim Planchin, Philippe Ploujoux
 Great Britain
&  Ireland		 Gordon Brand Jnr, Allan Brodie, Brian Marchbank, Peter McEvoy
 Hong Kong David Chan, Mark Chow, Yau Tak, Alex Tang
 India P. G. Sethi, Alan Singh, Lakshman Singh, Vikramjit Singh
 Italy Franco Gigliarelli, Antonio Lionello, Alberto Schiaffino, Lorenzo Silva
 Japan Ginjiro Nakabe, Tetsuo Sakata, Fuminori Sano, Masao Shioda
 Netherlands Barend van Dam, Jaap van Neck, Bart Nolte, Victor Swane
 New Zealand Geoff Clarke, Paul Hartstone, Phil Mosley, Frank Nobilo
 Papua New Guinea Greg Fennell, B. Giles, Tony Gover, John Keating, Jimmy Wu
 South Korea Chang Hwan Cho, Byong Hoon Kim, Dae Soon Kim
 Spain Gonzaga Escuariaza, Nicasio Sagardia, Roman Taya, Alfonso Vidaor
 Sweden Göran Lundquist, Jan Rube, Mikael Sorling, Björn Svedin
 Switzerland Francis Boillat, Marcus Frank, Yves Hofstetter, Johnny Storjohann
 Thailand Tamsak Ansusinha, Pratuang Nop-Ubol, Santa Pestonji, Thongplew Rungsang
 United States Bobby Clampett, John Cook, Scott Hoch, Jay Sigel
 West Germany Kai Flint, Thomas Hübner, Veit Pagel, Christian Strenger

Scores

Place Country Score To par
1st place, gold medalist(s)  United States 213-220-219-221=873 +9
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Canada 222-222-225-217=886 +22
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Australia 222-223-224-222=891 +27
4  New Zealand 227-219-229-220=895 +31
5  Sweden 221-230-228-235=914 +50
6  Great Britain
&  Ireland		 221-229-238-231=919 +55
7  France 230-236-236-221=923 +59
8  West Germany 231-240-229-233=933 +69
9  Japan 235-226-242-232=935 +71
T10  Italy 235-239-231-239=944 +80
 Spain 238-237-238-231=944
12  Switzerland 235-240-236-234=945 +81
13  Argentina 245-241-233-230=949 +85
14  India 239-245-245-229=958 +94
15  Papua New Guinea 246-242-235-237=960 +96
16  Netherlands 239-250-234-240=963 +99
T17  Austria 239-252-240-238=969 +105
 Bermuda 238-243-243-245=969
19  Brazil 247-244-236-245=972 +108
20  Belgium 243-251-245-241=980 +116
21  Thailand 249-245-248-240=982 +118
22  Fiji 252-250-243-240=985 +121
23  Hong Kong 254-243-240-249=986 +122
24  South Korea 254-254-245-248=1001 +137

Source:

Individual leaders

There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.

Place Player Country Score To par
1 Bobby Clampett  United States 69-71-71-76=287 −1
2 Doug Roxburgh  Canada 72-74-74-69=289 +1
3 Geoff Clarke  New Zealand 71-76-72-71=290 +2
4 Gary Cowan  Canada 73-71-77-71=292 +4
5 John Cook  United States 75-73-73-72=293 +5
T6 Scott Hoch  United States 70-76-75-73=294 +6
Peter Sweeney  Australia 76-73-71-74=294
8 Tony Gresham  Australia 75-75-77-71=298 +10
T9 Phil Mosley  New Zealand 76-70-81-72=299 +11
Mikael Sorling  Sweden 70-76-75-78=299

Source:

References

  1. ^ "Record Book 1978 World Amateur Golf Team Championships" (PDF). World Amateur Golf Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 October 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Ett annorlunda VM" [A different World Championship]. Svensk Golf. No. 9. December 1978. pp. 9–17. Retrieved 10 March 2021.

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