Tough contest for golf cup
NZPA-Reuter Palm Springs (California) The Americans, Jerry Pate and Dave Stockton, face stiff competition from a field of top international teams in the twenty-fourth annual World Cup and International Trophy golf championship beginning today at the Mission Hills Country Club in Palm Springs. Two-man teams representing 48 nations, the most ever to gather for this tournament dedicated to “international good will through golf,” will test a 7381yard, par-72 desert layout in the 72-hole event. New Zealand is represented by Simon Owen and Barry Vivian.
Given the best chances to head off another American cup victory are the teams of South Africa, Taiwan, Japan, Spain, Scotland, and Ireland. While the winning team receives the cup, the best individual finisher earns the international trophy and an automatic invitation to the 1977 World Series of Golf, which carries a SUSIOO,OOO first prize.
This week’s tournament is long on prestige and short on prize money, the winning team to split SUS2OOO and thet op individual to pocket SUSIOOO.
Pate and Stockton represent the United States by virtue of their respective 1976 United States Open and Professional Golf Association championship's. Last year, the United States team of Johnny Miller and Lou Graham won the cup in Bangkok, with Miller taking the trophy. The United States has won the cup 13 of the 23 years of competition. The 22-year-old Pate, also the reigning Canadian Open champion, is appearing in his first World Cup. Stockton, with 11 P.G.A. tour victories since 1965, teamed with Lee Trevino in 1970 to finish fourth in World Cup play in Buenos Aires. South Africa is represented by Bobby Cole and Dale Hayes, who won the cup m 1974 in Caracas, with Cole winning the individual trophy. The pair did not defend their title last year. Taiwan will be represent ed by Kuo Chie-hsiung, a member of last year’s sec-ond-place team, and Hsu Sheng-san, winner of the 1976 Asia golf circuit, making his first World Cup appearance.
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Press, 9 December 1976, Page 40
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