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Sunday 12 November 1995Team cupsYear in Review
United States wins World Cup of Golf
Mission Hills Golf Club, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 9 to Sunday 12 November 1995 · purse US$1,300,000 team + US$200,000 individual (Wikipedia infobox); $1,500,000 total (Wikipedia text) USD · 41st World Cup (Wikipedia; Independent 'the tournament's 41-year history'); 72 holes stroke play, two-man national teams, combined score (Wikipedia)
Headline from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
10 h 38 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 44° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R1Not yet researched
- R2Not yet researched
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- 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
- Australia (Robert Allenby and Brett Ogle) AUS · 557A 68 from Ogle and 70 from Allenby lifted them to second, 14 strokes behind the United States, who led from start to finish America cement their grip on Cup (The Independent, 13 Nov 1995)
64 started
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Team cup
World Cup of Golf
Mission Hills Golf Club (World Cup Course), Mission Hills Golf Club, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
2 of 5 researched
Winner
United States (Fred Couples and Davis Love III)
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
The Independent
13 November 1995
It was a goal of mine to win the individual - it is the only thing I have not done in this tournament. Fred [Couples] won last year and now we have one each,
The Independent
13 November 1995
I had a good week but now I feel a bit bad as I let the tournament slip,
The Independent
11 November 1995
It was a good five- iron but I was surprised when it went in, although Fred Couples called it in the air,
Top 10
Not yet researched
The golfer
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet