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Sunday 11 December 1988Team cupsYear in Review
United States wins World Cup
Royal Melbourne Golf Club, Melbourne, Australia (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 December 1988 · purse US$750,000 USD · 8–11 December 1988 (Wikipedia edition article); season pages list Dec 11 / 11 Dec. Per-round dates not printed (sessions date null).
Headline from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
13 h 32 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 88° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R1Not yet researched
- R2Not yet researched
- R3Not yet researched
- R4Not yet researched
The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Japan (Masashi Ozaki and Tateo Ozaki) JPN · 561Second, one stroke behind the United States 1988 World Cup (men's golf) (Wikipedia)
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Team cup
World Cup
Royal Melbourne Golf Club (composite of East and West Courses), Royal Melbourne Golf Club, Melbourne, Australia
1 of 5 researched
Winner
United States (Ben Crenshaw and Mark McCumber)
Runner-up not yet researched.
Top 10
Not yet researched
The golfer
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet