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1991 World Cup (men's golf)

Coordinates: 42°14′N 12°17′E / 42.233°N 12.283°E / 42.233; 12.283
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1991 World Cup
Tournament information
Dates31 October – 3 November
LocationRome, Italy
Course(s)Le Querce Golf Club
Format72 holes stroke play
combined score
Statistics
Par72
Length7,030 yards (6,430 m)
Field32 two-man teams
CutNone
Prize fundUS$1.1 million
Winner's share$240,000 team
$75,000 individual
Champion
 Sweden
Anders Forsbrand & Per-Ulrik Johansson
563 (−13)
Location map
Le Querce Golf Club is located in Italy
Le Querce Golf Club
Le Querce Golf Club
Location in Italy
Le Querce Golf Club is located in Lazio
Le Querce Golf Club
Le Querce Golf Club
Location in Lazio
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The 1991 World Cup took place 31 October – 3 November 1991 at the Le Querce Golf Club, name later changed to Golf Nazionale, 30 miles north of Rome, Italy. It was the 37th World Cup event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 32 teams. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The Swedish team of Anders Forsbrand and Per-Ulrik Johansson won by one stroke over the Wales team of Ian Woosnam and Phillip Price. The individual competition was won by Woosnam. This was the second team victory in professional golf within a month for Sweden, winning also the 1991 Dunhill Cup for three-men teams, were the Swedish team also included Forsbrand and Johansson. By the win, Sweden became the first nation to simultaneously hold the team titles in the Eisenhower Trophy, the Dunhill Cup and the World Cup in men's golf.

Teams

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Country Players
 Argentina Rubén Alvarez and Eduardo Romero
 Australia Rodger Davis and Mike Harwood
 Austria Marcus Burger and Oswald Gartenmaier
 Belgium Olivier Buysse and Michel Van Meerbeek
 Brazil João Cortez and Rafael Navarro
 Canada Dave Barr and Dan Halldorson
 Colombia Eduardo Arévalo and Iván Rengifo
 Denmark Jacob Rasmussen and Anders Sørensen
 England Nick Faldo and Steven Richardson
 Finland Anssi Kankkonen and Mikael Piltz
 France Marc Farry and Jean van de Velde
 Germany Torsten Giedeon and Bernhard Langer
 Ireland Eamonn Darcy and Ronan Rafferty
 Italy Giuseppe Calì and Costantino Rocca
 Japan Satoshi Higashi and Nobuo Serizawa
 Malaysia Marimuthu Ramayah and Abdullah Mohd Yusof
 Mexico Rafael Alarcón and Carlos Espinoza
 Netherlands Willem Swart and Chris van der Velde
 New Zealand Frank Nobilo and Greg Turner
 Norway Per Haugsrud and Gard Midtwåge
 Paraguay Ángel Giménez and Jorge Murdoch
 Philippines A Fernando and Mario Siodina
 Portugal Daniel Silva and David Silva
 Scotland Colin Montgomerie and Sam Torrance
 South Korea Choi Sang-ho and Park Nam-sin
 Spain Seve Ballesteros and José Rivero
 Sweden Anders Forsbrand and Per-Ulrik Johansson
 Switzerland André Bossert and Paolo Quirici
 United States Wayne Levi and Joey Sindelar
 Venezuela Francisco Alvarado and Ramón Muñoz
 Wales Phillip Price and Ian Woosnam
 Zimbabwe William Koen and Timothy Price

Scores

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Team

Place Country Score To par Money (US$)
(per team)
1  Sweden 142-148-134-139=563 −13 240,000
2  Wales 142-144-139-139=564 −12 120,000
3  Scotland 144-141-140-142=567 −9 88,000
T4  England 137-146-148-139=570 −6 52,000
 Germany 138-144-149-139=570
T6  New Zealand 146-140-141-144=571 −5 35,000
 Spain 141-138-143-149=571
T8  Canada 144-147-139-144=574 −2 19,333
 Ireland 147-139-146-142=574
 Japan 142-145-145-142=574
11  Switzerland 143-146-140-146=575 −1
T12  Australia 150-145-141-142=578 +2
 Italy 150-143-141-144=578
 United States 147-143-142-146=578
15  France 146-147-143-143=579 +3
16  Norway 148-144-147-143=582 +6
17  Mexico 150-139-149-145=583 +7
T18  Denmark 142-151-142-149=584 +8
 South Korea 143-155-140-146=584
T20  Argentina 144-142-151-148=585 +9
 Netherlands 147-144-145-149=585
22  Portugal 158-143-147-144=592 +16
23  Philippines 150-147-147-150=594 +18
24  Finland 152-147-149-147=595 +19
25  Zimbabwe 154-149-146-154=603 +27
26  Colombia 154-151-149-152=606 +30
27  Brazil 164-146-144-154=608 +32
28  Paraguay 151-151-154-155=611 +35
29  Malaysia 155-149-158-153=615 +39
30  Austria 156-155-156-151=618 +42
31  Venezuela 159-158-146-163=626 +50
32  Belgium 165-163-154-165=647 +71

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International Trophy

Place Player Country Score To par Money (US$)
1 Ian Woosnam  Wales 70-69-67-67=273 −15 75,000
2 Bernhard Langer  Germany 69-69-71-67=276 −12 50,000
3 Anders Forsbrand  Sweden 73-73-65-68=279 −9 40,000
T4 Seve Ballesteros  Spain 68-69-71-72=280 −8 25,000
André Bossert  Switzerland 71-71-70-68=280
6 Sam Torrance  Scotland 71-71-66-73=281 −7 15,000
7 Anders Sørensen  Denmark 69-73-69-72=283 −5
T8 Dave Barr  Canada 72-72-70-70=284 −4
Rodger Davis  Australia 74-70-69-71=284
Satoshi Higashi  Japan 73-71-73-67=284
Per-Ulrik Johansson  Sweden 69-75-69-71=284
Steven Richardson  England 69-73-74-68=284

References

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  1. ^ "Golf World Cup". The Canberra Times. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 6 November 1991. p. 38. Retrieved 28 December 2019 – via Trove.
  2. ^ "Tävling". Svensk Golf (in Swedish). December 1991. pp. 52–57.

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