It was originally called the Canada Cup when it was founded back in 1953 by Canadian industrialist John Jay Hopkins, who hoped it would promote international goodwill through golf. They changed its name to the World Cup in 1967 and it traveled the globe and grew to be one of golf's most prestigious tournaments throughout the 1960s and 1970s, but interest in the event faded to the point that the event was not held in 1981 or 1986.
After 3 years from 2007 through 2009 at the Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen, China it was changed to a bi-centennial event and this year it is at the Royal Melbourne GC in Australia with a format that will mimic the Olympic format in 2016
Players in the top 15 on the Official World Golf Ranking gain access to the World Cup, with the exception that there will be no more than four players for any country. After the top 15, up to two players are allowed per country until the field of about 60 is filled.
Individual stroke-play was instituted this year for all four rounds to mirror the Olympic format, and the best two scores from each country will determine the team placings.
The individual competition offers $7 million in prize money. The winning individual player gets $1.2 million; the winning team gets $600,000. Twenty-five teams played, including David Hearn of Brampton, Ontario and Brad Fritsch of Ottawa for Canada
PGA TOUR/EUROPEAN TOUR - WORLD CUP OF GOLF
COURSE: Royal Melbourne Golf Club, Composite Course (7,024 yards, par 71).
PURSE (INDIVIDUAL): $7 million. Winner’s share: $1.2 million.
PURSE (TEAM): $1 million. Winners’ shares: $300,000 each.
CANADIANS David Hearn 70 71 71 71, Brad Fritsch 71 73 70 73
Round 4 final
After nearly withdrawing due to a family tragedy, Jason Day made an emotional return to golf at the ISPS HANDA World Cup of Golf to win his first tournament in more than three years at Royal Melbourne on Sunday.
His 7-foot putt to save par on the 16th hole held off a faltering Thomas Bjorn. Day had a 70 for a 10-under total of 274. That was two strokes better than Denmark's Bjorn, who finished with a 71 after two late bogeys.
Day's last victory came at the HP Byron Nelson Championship on the PGA TOUR in 2010, although he's had four top-five finishes in majors since 2011.
The World Cup was Day's first tournament in five weeks and came less than two weeks after he learned that eight of his relatives, including his grandmother, died in the devastating Nov. 9 typhoon in the Philippines.
Masters champion Adam Scott finished third after a 66, three strokes behind. Scott, who was trying to win his third tournament in a row, shot a 75 on the opening day, including a 9 on the 12th hole, and spent the rest of the tournament trying to catch up.
Day earned $1.2 million for winning the individual title and helped Australia win the team portion of the World Cup. Day and Scott, who each holed approach shots for eagles Sunday, shared the $600,000 first-place team prize.
American Matt Kuchar shot a 71 to finish fourth in individual stroke-play, three behind Day.
Ryo Ishikawa of Japan (69) and Kiradech Aphibarnrat of Thailand (70) finished tied for fifth, seven behind the winner
David Hearn 71 and Brad Fritsch 73 ended up 5th in the team standings
Live scoring http://worldcup.pgatour.com/leaderboard.aspx
LPGA TOUR - CME GROUP TITLEHOLDERS
COURSE: Tiburon Golf Club (6,540 yards, par 72).
PURSE: $2 million. Winner’s share: $700,000.
CANADIANS: Rebecca Lee-Bentham 65 76 75 75 +3
Round 4 Final
Shanshan Feng of China seized control early and was flawless in the final round of the LPGA Tour season, closing with a 6-under 66 to win the LPGA Titleholders and claim the richest prize in women’s golf Sunday.
Gerina Piller stayed within one shot and had a 10-foot birdie attempt on the final hole that would have forced a playoff. It narrowly missed, and Piller had to settle for a 69 and her best finish on the LPGA Tour
Natalie Gulbis, tied for the 54-hole lead with Pornanong and Piller, wasn’t up to the task. Going for her first win in six years, Gulbis didn’t make a birdie until the 14th hole, and by then she couldn’t stop a spectacular slide. Gulbis closed with an 82
Inbee Park, who clinched player of the year last week in Mexico, had a 68 to finish fifth. She won the LPGA Tour money title.
The only other award at stake Sunday was rookie of the year. That went to Moriya Jutanugarn of Thailand, who closed with a 72. She won by one point over Caroline Masson of Germany.
Lydia Ko, the two-time Canadian Women's Open champion, finished her first tournament as a pro in a tie for 21st at 4-under par. After leaving more than $1-million in prize money on the table competing as an amateur, the Korean-born New Zealander cashed her first official cheque as a pro for $16,063.
Toronto's Rebecca Lee-Bentham carded a second straight round of 75 to finish in a tie for 43rd at 3-over par
Live scoring http://www.lpgascoring.com/public/Leaderboard.aspx
CHAMPIONS TOUR - QUALIFYING SCHOOL, FINAL STAGE
COURSE: TPC Scottsdale Champions Course
CANADIANS Jim Rutledge T2 65 67 72 65 -15, Marc Girouard 74 70 77 73 +10, Ken Tarling 69 73 76 75 +9
Round 4 Final
Neither rain, nor near-sleet, nor gloomy skies, could keep Wes Short Jr. (Austin, Texas) from his appointed final round. After a three-hour rain delay at the start, Short battled through adverse weather conditions and then near darkness late in the day to win the 2013 Champions Tour National Qualifying Tournament at the par-71 Champions Course at TPC Scottsdale.
With temperatures only reaching the low 60s, Short, posted a 3-under 68 in a steady afternoon drizzle on Friday and his 72-hole total of 20-under 264, tied an all-time Champions Tour record set by Jeff Freeman at this same venue two years ago
Short Jr. easily outdistanced both Mike Reid (Westminister, Md.) and Canadian Jim Rutledge (Victoria, B.C.) by five strokes, earning him medalist honors by the largest margin in a National Qualifier since Bob Gilder in 2000
Rutledge started the day outside the top 12 and was looking at having no exempt status for 2014 before he teed off. However, after turning in 2-under 33, he made four birdies on the back nine to shoot 65, equalling the low round of the day, and he quickly moved up the leaderboard into an eventual T2, the fourth straight year he’s finished among the top eight at the National Qualifier. Rutledge also finished T2 at TPC Scottsdale in 2011
Live scoring http://www.pgatour.com/champions/tournaments/champions-tour-q-school/leaderboard.html
EUROPEAN TOUR/SUNSHINE TOUR - SOUTH AFRICA OPEN
COURSE: Glendower Golf Club (6,899 yards, par 72).
PURSE: $1.49 million. Winner’s share: $235,685.
Round 4 Final
Denmark’s Morten Ørum Madsen won his first European Tour title with a two shot victory in the South African Open Championship hosted by the City of Ekurhuleni.
Madsen got his season off to the perfect start by winning the opening event of the 2014 Race to Dubai after picking up five shots in his last round, all with birdies, to finish ahead of South Africans Jbe Kruger and Hennie Otto at Glendower GC on 19 under par.
The 25 year old, ranked 244 in the world before this win, made consistent scores throughout the four days, overcoming four bogeys in his first round with just three more in the rest of the tournament.
Madsen was today playing alongside overnight leader and pre-tournament favourite Charl Schwartzel, who squandered a three shot lead to finish tied for fourth with Italy’s Marco Crespi on 16 under.
Live scoring http://www.europeantour.com/europeantour/season=2014/tournamentid=2013094/leaderboard/index.html?showLeaderboard=Y
PGA TOUR LATINOAMERICA - CHILE OPEN
COURSE: Los Leones Golf Club, Santiago, Chile ( 6,948 yards, par 72)
PURSE: $150,000
CANADIANS Adam Cornelson 71 73 69, Matt Johnston MC
Round 4 Final
Timothy O'Neal of Savannah Georgia made an eagle on the first hole of a three-man sudden-death playoff to win the 87th Abierto de Chile on Sunday.
With the victory, his second on NEC Series PGA TOUR Latinoamérica this season, O'Neal jumps to No. 3 on "Los Cinco" and is in position to earn Web.com Tour status for the 2014 season. O'Neal of Savannah, Ga., Florida's Ryan Blaum and Argentina's Sebastián Saavedra finished 72 holes at 13-under 275.
The playoff was contested on No. 18, a 511-yard par-5 where O’Neal had about 200 yards to the flag on his second shot.
“I was in between the 4- and the 5-iron," he said. "I went with the 4-iron and I hit it a little left, but luckily it caught the slope and rolled back towards the hole and I had about a six-footer for eagle, which I was fortunate to make.”
After that fortunate break, his opponents' chances of beating him all but evaporated. Saavedra, who had reached the playoff after a record-breaking round of 10-under 62, made a great sand shot to get within a foot of the hole in three.
Meanwhile Blaum, who almost holed out from a greenside bunker for the win in regulation, missed a 25-foot putt from off the green past the hole on his eagle try. For Blaum it was his second runner-up finish in a row
Live scoring http://www.pgatourla.com/leaderboard/m2013015/?lg=en#.Uo31Y-Yo7Mw
WEB.COM TOUR - QUALIFYING SCHOOL, SECOND STAGE
COURSES: Plantation Preserve GC (FL), Southern Hills Plantation (FL), Bear Creek Golf Club (CA), Shell Landing GC (MS)
CANADIANS: Jon Mills, Yohann Benson, Ben Silverman, Max Gilbert, Matt Hill, Corey Renfrew, Eugene Wong, Darren Wallace
Yohann Benson of Montreal finished tied for fourth at the Plantation Preserve Golf Course & Club in Plantation, Florida to move on to the final stage. Ben Silverman (T50) of Thornhill, Ont. and Jon Mills (T67) of Belleville, Ont. both failed to advance.
Plantation Fl
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Quebec's Max Gilbert, the 2013 PGA Tour Canada Tour Championship winner, finished tied for fourth at the Southern Hills Plantation Club in Brooksville, Florida. Matt Hill of Sarnia, Ont. missed advancing to the final stage by three strokes after finishing tied for 31st.
Brooksville Fl
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Former top ranked amateur Eugene Wong of North Vancouver was among five Canadians who advanced to the final stage of Web.com qualifying school.
Wong, the former NCAA player of the year in 2010, finished tied for seventh at Bear Creek Golf Club in Murrieta, California despite a final round 78.
Darren Wallace of Vancouver wasn't as fortunate. His final round 74 left him one stroke shy of advancing to the final stage. Cory Renfrew of Victoria finished 55th and also missed the cut.
Murreita, Ca
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Cam Burke of New Hamburg, Ont., finished tied for eighth at Shell Landing Golf Club in Gautier, Mississippi. Derek Gillespie of Oshawa, Ont., was tied for 11th and also moved on. However, Stuart Anderson of Sooke, B.C. missed making the final stage by a single stroke as did Michael Gligic of Burlington, Ont. Marc-Etienne Bussieres (33rd) of Gatineau, Quebec and Toronto'sDavid Lang (73rd) also missed the cut.
Gautier MS
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Fellow Canadians Albin Choi, Justin Shin, Roger Sloan and Devin Carrey previously advanced through a pair of second stage qualifiers last week
Bryan Angus ( files from europeantour.com, pgatour.com)
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