World Cup: World Golf Championships

[Ego Woods]

The following countries/players will be participating in the upcoming World Cup with the following schedule:

Thursday, Nov. 18: Four-ball Format
Friday, Nov. 19: Foursomes Format
Saturday, Nov. 20: Four-ball Format
Sunday, Nov. 21: Foursomes Format

When I look down that list, I would have to think that Spain and Ireland are favoured to win the Cup. It's a shame there isn't too many world class players in the field....Weir also isn't playing. Immelman/Sabbatini are the defending champions.

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Argentina
Eduardo Romero

Angel Cabrera





Australia

Stephen Leaney

Nick O'Hern



Austria

Markus Brier

Martin Wiegele

Canada

Stuart Anderson

Darren Griff





Colombia

Manuel Merizalde

Jose Garrido





Denmark

Anders Hansen

Soren Kjeldsen



England

Paul Casey

Luke Donald



France

Raphael Jacquelin

Thomas Levet


Germany
Marcel Siem

Kariem Baraka





Holland

Robert-Jan Derksen

Maarten Lafeber





Ireland

Padraig Harrington

Paul McGinley



Italy

Allesandro Tadini

Andrea Maestroni



Japan

Shigeki Maruyama

Hidemichi Tanaka





Mexico

Pablo del Olmo

Alejandro Quiroz



Myanmar

Kyi Hla Han

Soe Kyaw Naing



New Zealand

David Smail

Craig Perks



Scotland

Scott Drummond

Alastair Forsyth



South Africa

Trevor Immelman

Rory Sabbatini



South Korea

Kim Dae-Sub

Shin Yong-Jin



Spain

Sergio Garcia

Miguel Angel Jimenez



Sweden

Frederick Jacobson

Joakim Haeggman





Taiwan

Wang Ter-Chang

Lu Wei-Chih



United States

Bob Tway

Scott Verplank



Wales

Bradley Dredge

Phillip Price

[Queen of the Beach]

I'm somewhat surprised that M.Weir and S.Ames did not participate this year....they would have done well against that field...:(

[Ego Woods]

I'm somewhat surprised that M.Weir and S.Ames did not participate this year....they would have done well against that field...:(
M.Weir didn't participate, but also I believe S.Ames is not able to represent Canada as of yet.....I believe he has to have been a citizen for atleast 2 years.....I also read that he's not much of a fan of team golf competitions so he probably wouldn't participate even if he were eligible......

[Focker Singh]

wow, what a rather weak field...i would take the Spaniards to win this one too...I also like the French pair...doesn't even make it interesting to watch with this weak field...i guess everyone's gearing up for the next season...

[Ems]

I guess the World Cup isn't as prestigious? I don't recognize any names! :confused: I think I would only recognize names from Canada, US, South Africa and some other random players in Europe.

[Ems]

Looks like the Women's World Cup doesn't have a list of contestants. I'm gonna make a separate post ;)

[Ego Woods]

I guess the World Cup isn't as prestigious? I don't recognize any names! :confused: I think I would only recognize names from Canada, US, South Africa and some other random players in Europe.
Yeah, I never realized that the end of year WGC tournament has a lot of world class players missing....I recently watched a preview of the WGC Cup the past week and saw that Love III/Couples won the tournament the past four years from the period of '92-'95 I believe.....it may have been more popular in the past?

It may not be as prestigious because we have the Ryder Cup/President's Cup each alternating year......

[Focker Singh]

Yeah, I never realized that the end of year WGC tournament has a lot of world class players missing....I recently watched a preview of the WGC Cup the past week and saw that Love III/Couples won the tournament the past four years from the period of '92-'95 I believe.....it may have been more popular in the past?

It may not be as prestigious because we have the Ryder Cup/President's Cup each alternating year......
Still made for some pretty entertaining and quality golf though...Luke Donald has a crazy hot streak of putting making 4 straight birdies. I found it very questionable for Garcia and Jiminaz's judgement to go for the green on the 16th green from the rough. (Garcia then put it in the drink and killed their chances). Why didn't he just lay up and get a bird and move on? They were only 1 stroke back! Oh well, proably the home crowd made them go for glory!