1966 Canada Cup

Golf tournament

1966 Canada CupTournament information

Dates| 11–14 November
Location| Inagi, Tokyo, Japan
Course(s)| Tokyo Yomiuri Country Club
Format| 72 holes stroke play
combined score
Statistics
Par| 72
Length| 6,962 yards (6,366 m)
Field| 36 two-man teams
Cut| None
Prize fund| US$6,300
Winner's share| $2,000 team
$1,000 individual
Champion
United States
Jack Nicklaus & Arnold Palmer
548 (−28)
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The 1966 Canada Cup took place 11–14 November at the Tokyo Yomiuri Country Club in Inagi, Tokyo, Japan. It was the 14th Canada Cup event, which became the World Cup in 1967. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 36 teams. These were the same teams that had competed in 1965 with the addition of South Korea and Thailand, but without Egypt, Monaco and Morocco. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The American team of Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer won by five strokes over the South African team of Harold Henning and Gary Player. The individual competition was won by the Canadian George Knudson, who won at the second hole of a sudden-playoff over the Japanese Hideyo Sugimoto.[1]

## Teams

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Country | Players

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Argentina | Roberto De Vicenzo and Leopoldo Ruiz
Australia | Bruce Devlin and Kel Nagle
Austria | Oswald Gertenmaier and Hans Stroll
Belgium | Donald Swaelens and Flory Van Donck
Brazil | José Maria Gonzalez and Igolata Reis
Canada | Frank Fowler and George Knudson
Chile | Francisco Cerda and Alberto Salas
Colombia | Alfonso Bohórquez and Pedro Pablo García
Czechoslovakia | Jiri Dvorak (a) and Jan Kunšta (a)
Denmark | Herluf Hansen and Jorgen Korfitzen
England | Peter Alliss and Tony Jacklin
France | Jean Garaïalde and Jean-Claude Harismendy
West Germany | Herbert Becker and Toni Kugelmüller
Hawaii | Ted Makalena and Paul Scodeller
Ireland | Jimmy Martin and Christy O'Connor Snr
Italy | Roberto Bernardini and Emanuele Canessa
Japan | Mitsutaka Kono and Hideyo Sugimoto
Mexico | José González and Juan Neri
Netherlands | Martin Roesink and André van Pinxten
New Zealand | Frank Buckler and Bob Charles
Peru | Hugo Nari and Bernabé Fajardo
Philippines | Ben Arda and Luis Silverio (a)
Portugal | Fernando Pina and Manuel Ribeiro
Puerto Rico | Juan Gonzalez and Chi-Chi Rodríguez
Scotland | Eric Brown and John Panton
South Africa | Harold Henning and Gary Player
South Korea | Han Chang-sang and Hong Duck-san
Spain | Valentín Barrios and Sebastián Miguel
Sweden | Åke Bergquist and Harry Karlsson-Fakt
Switzerland | Jacky Bonvin and Ronald Tingley
Taiwan | Chen Ching-Po and Lu Liang-Huan
Thailand | Uthai Dabpavibul and Seng Suwankart
United States | Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer
Uruguay | Enrique Fernández and Juan Sereda
Venezuela | Franci Betancourt and Teobaldo Perez
Wales | Sid Mouland and Dave Thomas
West Germany | Herbert Becker and Toni Kugelmüller

Source[1][2]

## Scores

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Team

Place | Country | Score | To par | Money (US$)

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1 |  United States | 135-135-136-142=548 | −28 | 2,000
2 |  South Africa | 138-138-139-138=553 | −23 | 1,000
3 |  Taiwan | 135-138-143-138=554 | −22 | 800
4 |  Australia | 135-141-137-143=556 | −20 | 400
5 |  Japan | 135-146-136-144=561 | −15 |
6 |  Canada | 134-144-139-146=563 | −13
7 |  Argentina | 141-143-142-139=565 | −11
8 |  Belgium | 141-141-142-147=571 | −5
9 |  Spain | 149-140-138-145=572 | −4
10 |  England | 144-153-137-140=574 | −2
11 |  New Zealand | 144-152-139-141=576 | E
12 |  Scotland | 143-146-143-146=578 | +2
13 |  Ireland | 144-146-143-148=581 | +5
14 |  Wales | 149-145-147-143=584 | +8
15 |  Hawaii | 147-146-144-148=585 | +9
16 |  Italy | 139-151-149-147=586 | +10
T17 |  France | 142-148-145-153=588 | +12
Mexico | 146-146-146-150=588
19 |  Netherlands | 151-148-143-148=590 | +14
20 |  West Germany | 147-145-153-148=593 | +17
T21 |  Colombia | 144-148-146-156=594 | +18
Philippines | 142-152-147-153=594
23 |  Chile | 140-155-150-151=596 | +20
24 |  South Korea | 150-149-150-150=599 | +23
25 |  Puerto Rico | 148-148-154-152=602 | +26
26 |  Switzerland | 149-151-156-150=606 | +30
27 |  Thailand | 149-152-154-152=607 | +31
28 |  Brazil | 154-155-159-145=613 | +37
29 |  Denmark | 151-149-153-163=616 | +40
30 |  Sweden | 148-157-151-163=619 | +43
31 |  Venezuela | 157-155-155-163=620 | +44
32 |  Peru | 149-161-165-154=629 | +53
T33 |  Portugal | 155-162-156-161=634 | +58
Uruguay | 160-163-157-154=634
35 |  Austria | 165-174-163-160=662 | +86
36 |  Czechoslovakia | 159-163-177-169=668 | +92

International Trophy

Place | Player | Country | Score | To par | Money (US$)

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1 | George Knudson |  Canada | 64-68-66-74=272 | −16 | 1,000
2 | Hideyo Sugimoto |  Japan | 66-69-68-69=272 | 500
T3 | Lu Liang-Huan |  Taiwan | 67-68-73-65=273 | −15 | 300
Jack Nicklaus |  United States | 69-68-67-69=273
5 | Arnold Palmer |  United States | 66-67-69-73=275 | −13 |
6 | Harold Henning |  South Africa | 69-67-70-70=276 | −12
T7 | Bob Charles |  New Zealand | 69-76-64-68=277 | −11
Bruce Devlin |  Australia | 69-71-67-70=277
Gary Player |  South Africa | 69-71-69-68=277
10 | Roberto De Vicenzo |  Argentina | 69-69-73-67=278 | −10

Knudson and Sugimoto contested a sudden-death playoff. Knudson won with a birdie 2 at the second extra hole.

Source[3]

## References

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1. ^ a b "United States victory by five strokes". The Glasgow Herald. 14 November 1966. p. 5.
2. ^ "Palmer takes lead with 133". The Gazette. Montreal. Associated Press. 11 November 1966. p. 23.
3. ^ "Knudson defeats Sugimoto in playoff". The Gazette. Montreal. Associated Press. 14 November 1966. p. 26.

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