1973 World Cup

The 1973 World Cup took place 22–25 November at the Club de Golf Nueva Andalucía in Marbella, Spain. The name of the club was later changed to Real Club de Golf Las Brisas. It was the 21st World Cup event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 49 teams. Each team consisted of two players from a country.

1973 World Cup

Tournament information
Dates	22–25 November
Location	Marbella, Spain
Course(s)	Club de Golf Nueva Andalucía
Format	72 holes stroke play combined score
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,905 yards (6,314 m)
Field	49 two-man teams
Cut	None
Prize fund	US$6,300 $4,200 team $2,100 individual
Winner's share	$2,000 team $1,000 individual
Champion
United States Johnny Miller & Jack Nicklaus
558 (-18)
Location Map
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Team Czechoslovakia of Jiri Dvorak and Jaromir Fuchs were notified, but withdraw from the tournament before it began. Also before the tournament begun, notable player withdrawals were Peter Thomson, selected to the Australian team, replaced by Errol Hardvigsen, Peter Oosterhuis, selected to the English team, replaced by Peter Wilcock, Terry Kendall, selected to the New Zealand team, replaced by Simon Owen and Brian Huggett, selected to the Welsh team, replaced by David Vaughan.

The combined score of each team determined the team results. The United States team of Johnny Miller and Jack Nicklaus won by six strokes over the South Africa team of Hugh Baiocchi and Gary Player. This was the 12th team victory for United States, six of them with Jack Nicklaus on the team, in the event, formerly named Canada Cup, since its inception in 1953.

The individual competition for the International Trophy, was won by Miller, three strokes ahead of Player.

Teams

This list of players is incomplete

Country	Players
Argentina	Fidel de Luca and Roberto De Vicenzo
Australia	Errol Hardvigsen and Randall Vines
Austria	Oswald Gartenmaier and Rudolph Hauser
Belgium	Donald Swaelens and Philippe Toussaint
Brazil	Luis Carlos Pinto and Humberto Rocha
Canada	Phil Giroux and Bob Panasik
Chile	Francisco Cerda and Rafael Jerez
Colombia	Alfonso Bohórquez and Heraclio Valenzuela
Denmark	Herluf Hansen and Henrik Lund
Dominican Republic	Arturo Pellerano and Carlos M. Puebla
Egypt	Mahmound Abedunahab and Mohamed Said Moussa
England	Peter Butler and Peter Wilcock
Finland	Juhani Hämäläinen and Harry Safonoff
France	Jean Garaïalde and Bernard Pascassio
Greece	George Guinis and George Sotiropoulos
Guatemala	Roberto Galindo and Hilario Polo
Hong Kong
Indonesia
Ireland	Jimmy Kinsella and Eddie Polland
Italy	Roberto Bernardini and Alberto Croce
Jamaica	Basil Campbell and Seymour Rose
Japan	Isao Aoki and Tōru Nakamura
Libya	Muftah Salem and Mohammed Salah Ziaani
Malaysia	Zainal Abidin Yusof and Jalal Deran^[1]
Mexico	Ramón Cruz and Victor Regalado
Morocco	Ben Rokya Ahmed Messoud and Fatmi Moussa
Netherlands	Jan Dorrestein and Bertus Van Mook
New Zealand	Dennis Clark and Simon Owen
Nigeria	Patrick Okpomu and Paul Osanebi
Norway	Westye Hoegh (a) and Johan Horn (a)
Peru	Bernabé Fajardo and David Montoya
Philippines	Ireneo Legaspi and Eleuterio Nival
Portugal	Fernando Rina and Joaquin Rodriques
Puerto Rico	David Jimenez and Jesús Rodríguez
Romania	Muntanu Dumitru and Paul Tomita
Scotland	David Huish and David Ingram
Singapore	Lim Kian Tiong and Lim Swee Chew
South Africa	Hugh Baiocchi and Gary Player
South Korea	Cho Tae-ho and Kim Seung-hack
Spain	Valentín Barrios and Angel Gallardo
Sweden	Bo Johansson and Jan Rosell
Switzerland	Bernard Cordonier and Ronald Tingley
Taiwan	Lu Liang-Huan and Hsieh Min-Nan
Thailand	Prandana Ngarmprom and Sukree Onsham
United States	Johnny Miller and Jack Nicklaus
Uruguay	Juan Dapiaggi and Carlos Sereda
Venezuela	Ramón Muñoz and Julián Santana
Wales	Craig Defoy and David Vaughan
West Germany	Gerhard Koenig and Toni Kugelmueller

(a) denotes amateur

Scores

Team

Place	Country	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	United States	142-133-145-138=558	−18	2,000
2	South Africa	140-144-139-141=564	−12	1,000
3	Taiwan	138-145-142-143=568	−8	800
T4	Argentina	137-143-152-150=582	+6	200
	Spain	142-146-149-145=582
6	Japan	143-144-154-142=583	+7
T7	Australia	147-150-144-145=586	+10
	New Zealand	151-149-144-142=586	+10
9	Ireland	147-147-148-146=588	+12
10	Philippines	151-149-146-146=592	+16
T11	England	152-145-149-147=593	+17
	Thailand	140-149-152-152=593	+17
T13	Belgium	146-156-149-145=596	+20
	France	153-146-148-149=596
15	Italy	152-152-149-145=598	+22
16	Wales	151-147-150-152=600	+24
T17	Netherlands	149-152-152-148=601	+25
	Puerto Rico	152-141-157-151=601
19	Scotland	148-148-149-157=602	+26
20	South Korea	156-144-155-148=603	+27
21	Venezuela	156-157-149-146=608	+32
22	Austria	156- - -151 =609	+33
T23	Chile	150- - -158=610	+34
	Mexico	154- - -149=610
	Sweden	153-144-157-156=610
26	Colombia	154- - -149=611	+35
27	Canada	159- - -150=612	+36
28	Singapore	163-145-149-162=619	+43
29	Jamaica	151- - -157=622	+46
30	Norway	157-161-156-153=627	+51
31	West Germany	154- - -162=629	+53
32	Brazil	162- - - =631	+55
33	Switzerland	159- - -160=633	+57
34	Guatemala	159- - - =635	+59
35	Portugal	164- - -158=638	+62
36	Egypt	155- - -166=639	+63
37	Dominican Republic	167- - -157 =640	+64
38	Morocco	157- - - =642	+66
39	Indonesia	162-157-161-166=646	+70
T40	Hong Kong	162-159-162-165=648	+72
	Peru	172- - - =648
T42	Denmark	168-162-161-161=652	+76
	Finland	163-169-159-161=652
44	Nigeria	161- - - =654	+78
45	Greece	164- - - =657	+81
46	Malaysia	166-160-166-166=658	+82
47	Uruguay	163- - - =659	+83
48	Libya	179- - - =708	+132
49	Romania	185- - - =728	+152

International Trophy

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Johnny Miller	United States	73-65-72-67=277	−11	1,000
2	Gary Player	South Africa	69-72-70-69=280	−8	500
T3	Jack Nicklaus	United States	69-68-73-71=281	−7	300
	Lu Liang-Huan	Taiwan	67-69-74-71=281
T5	Hugh Baiocchi	South Africa	71-72-69-72=284	−4
	Randall Vines	Australia	72-74-69-69=284
7	Eddie Polland	Ireland	71-74-70-70=285	−3
T8	Isao Aoki	Japan	70-71-76-70=287	−1
	Valentín Barrios	Spain	69-70-75-73=287
	Hsieh Min-Nan	Taiwan	71-76-68-72=287

Sources:^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]}

References

1. Lu's 67 equals course mark New Straits Times 24 November 1973, p. 12
2. "Miller, U.S. win championships in World Cup golf". The Sun. San Bernardino, California. 26 November 1973. p. 18.
3. "World Cup". Svensk Golf. January 1974. p. 46.
4. "Jack, John Win Cup". The Desert Sun. 26 November 1973. p. 1B.
5. "Golf: World Cup". St. Petersburg Times. Florida. 23 November 1973. p. 2C – via newspapers.com.
6. "U.S. Leading By 3 Strokes". Tyler Courier-Times-Telegraph. TExas. UPI. 25 November 1973. p. Sec. 2–4 – via newspapers.com.
7. "Golf: World Cup". The Sydney Morning Herald. Australia. 27 November 1973. p. 15 – via newspapers.com.
8. "Inscription De Casi Todos Los Paises De La Asociacion Internacional En El Mundial Malagueño de Nueva Andalucia". ABC Sabado (in Spanish). 6 October 1973. p. 83.
9. "US clinch Cup by 6 strokes". New Nation. 26 November 1973. p. 11.
10. "US leads by 5 strokes". New Nation. 24 November 1973. p. 12.
11. "US lead cut to three strokes". The Straits Times. 26 November 1973. p. 23.

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