1969 World Cup (men's golf)

1969 World Cup

Tournament information
Dates	2–5 October
Location	Singapore 1°20′38″N 103°48′43″E / 1.344°N 103.812°E / 1.344; 103.812
Course(s)	Singapore Island Country Club Bukit Course
Format	72 holes stroke play combined score
Statistics
Par	71
Length	6,692 yards (6,119 m)
Field	45 two-man teams
Cut	None
Prize fund	US$6,300
Winner's share	$2,000 team $1,000 individual
Champion
United States Orville Moody & Lee Trevino
552 (−16)
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The 1969 World Cup took place 2–5 October at Singapore Island Country Club in Singapore. It was the 17th World Cup event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 45 teams. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The American team of Orville Moody and Lee Trevino won by eight strokes over the Japan team of Takaaki Kono and Haruo Yasuda. This was the tenth victory for the United States in the history of the World Cup, until 1967 named the Canada Cup. The individual competition was won by Trevino one stroke ahead of Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentina.

Teams

Country	Players
Argentina	Roberto De Vicenzo and Leopoldo Ruiz
Australia	Bill Dunk and Peter Thomson
Austria	Oswald Gartenmaier and Klaus Nierlich (a)
Belgium	Donald Swaelens and Flory Van Donck
Brazil	Luis Carlos Pinto and Humberto Rocha
Burma	Mya Aye and Kyaw Nyunt
Canada	Al Balding and George Knudson
Chile	Francisco Cerda and Manuel Morales
China	Hsieh Yung-yo and Hsu Chi-san
Colombia	Alfonso Bohórquez and Rogelio Gonzalez
Czechoslovakia	Jiri Dvorak (a) and Jan Kunšta (a)
Denmark	Herluf Hansen and Henning Kristensen
Egypt	Abdel Halim and Mohamed Said Moussa
England	Peter Butler and Peter Townsend
France	Roger Cotton and Patrick Cros
Greece	John Sotiropoulos and Stefano Vafiadis (a)
Hawaii	Jerry Johnston and Allan T. Yamamoto (a)
India	Shadi Lai and Ruda Valji
Indonesia	S. Denin and Azis Nawri
Ireland	Jimmy Kinsella and Christy O'Connor Snr
Italy	Roberto Bernardini and Alfonso Angelini
Japan	Takaaki Kono and Haruo Yasuda
Malaysia	Kwan Chong Choo (a) and Jalal Deran (a)
Mexico	Ramon Cruz and Juan Neri
Morocco	M'barek Mellouki and Meskine Hajjaj
Netherlands	Martin Roesink and Bertus van Mook
New Zealand	Terry Kendall and John Lister
Peru	Hugo Neri and Bernabé Fajardo
Philippines	Ben Arda and Eleuterio Nival
Portugal	Manuel Ribeiro and Joaquin Rodriguez
Puerto Rico	Juan Gonzalez and Jesús Rodríguez
Romania	Muntanu Dumitru and Paul Tomita
Scotland	Bernard Gallacher and George Will
Singapore	Phua Thin Kiay and Alvin Liau
South Africa	Bobby Cole and Graham Henning
South Korea	Kim Sung-yun and Lee Il-an
Spain	Ángel Gallardo and Ramón Sota
Sweden	Åke Bergquist and Tony Lidholm
Switzerland	Jacky Bonvin and Bernard Cordonier
Thailand	Sukree Onsham and Sushin Suwanapong
United States	Orville Moody and Lee Trevino
Uruguay	Juan Sereda and Pascual Viola
Venezuela	C. Garcia and Angel Sanchez
Wales	Brian Huggett and Dave Thomas
West Germany	Hans Heiser and Toni Kugelmüller

(a) denotes amateur

Scores

Team

Place	Country	Score	To par	Money (US$) (per team)
1	United States	138-140-140-134=552	−16	2,000
2	Japan	142-140-142-136=560	−8	1,000
3	Argentina	141-138-145-137=561	−7	800
T4	China	138-139-139-146=562	−6	200
	Thailand	139-140-140-143=562
6	Philippines	140-144-136-144=564	−4
7	Spain	144-140-144-140=568	E
8	Belgium	149-145-141-138=573	+5
9	Australia	144-139-148-143=574	+6
10	Colombia	143-144-143-145=575	+7
11	Wales	149-140-144-143=576	+8
12	South Africa	142-149-145-141=577	+9
13	Canada	143-146-144-145=578	+10
T14	England	149-145-146-139=579	+11
	Italy	145-144-147-143=579
16	Brazil	149-143-147-141=580	+12
17	Mexico	140-145-146-150=581	+13
18	Egypt	150-144-144-144=582	+14
19	New Zealand	148-147-144-146=585	+17
T20	Scotland	153-143-146-144=586	+18
	South Korea	146-148-147-145=586
22	France	147-150-149-143=589	+21
23	West Germany	150-147-149-145=591	+23
24	Austria	155-141-147-149=592	+24
25	Singapore	150-145-146-152=593	+25
26	Netherlands	148-150-150-147=595	+27
T27	Chile	149-151-151-145=596	+28
	Puerto Rico	153-149-146-148=596
29	Malaysia	151-148-152-147=598	+30
T30	Denmark	153-148-151-150=602	+34
	Peru	152-146-157-147=602
32	Ireland	151-149-154-153=607	+39
33	India	150-152-158-149=609	+41
34	Hawaii	156-151-152-151=610	+42
35	Indonesia	154-156-152-150=612	+44
36	Greece	155-147-153-158=613	+45
T37	Burma	154-151-155-155=615	+47
	Switzerland	154-149-154-158=615
T39	Portugal	154-152-151-160=617	+49
	Venezuela	151-155-155-156=617
41	Uruguay	157-154-153-154=618	+50
42	Czechoslovakia	151-157-156-163=627	+59
43	Sweden	162-156-157-154=629	+61
44	Morocco	168-161-155-166=650	+82
45	Romania	170-172-167-175=684	+116

International Trophy

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Lee Trevino	United States	71-70-69-65=275	−9	1,000
2	Roberto De Vicenzo	Argentina	69-68-74-65=276	−8	500
T3	Hsieh Yung-yo	China	66-70-69-72=277	−7	200
	Orville Moody	United States	67-70-71-69=277
	Sukree Onsham	Thailand	67-73-67-70=277
6	Ben Arda	Philippines	70-69-69-70=278	−6
7	Takaaki Kono	Japan	72-68-72-67=279	−5
8	Haruo Yasuda	Japan	70-72-70-69=281	−3
T9	Martin Roesink	Netherlands	71-72-69-71=283	−1
	Ramón Sota	Spain	71-71-72-69=283

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References

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