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Sunday 22 November 1998Team cupsYear in Review
England wins World Cup of Golf
Gulf Harbor Country Club, Whangaparaoa, New Zealand · Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 November 1998 · purse $1.5 million (US$1,300,000 team + US$200,000 individual) USD · 44th World Cup (Wikipedia); 32 two-man national teams, 72 holes individual stroke play, team score = combined total of both players, no cut; individuals also played for the International Trophy (Wikipedia; GOLFonline/AP). Listed under unofficial events on the 1998 PGA Tour and European Tour season pages (Wikipedia); no source found saying either tour counted it
Headline from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
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The name over time
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The ones it got away from
- Italy (Massimo Florioli and Costantino Rocca) ITA · 570Finished two behind after Carter's closing birdie on the 18th; Rocca closed with a 70 to tie Faldo for second in the individual England wins its first World Cup of Golf (AP, GOLFonline)
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Team cup
World Cup of Golf
Gulf Harbor Country Club, Gulf Harbor Country Club, Whangaparaoa, New Zealand
2 of 5 researched
Winner
England (David Carter and Nick Faldo)
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
GOLFonline (Associated Press)
22 November 1998
I carried him all week and he's the bloody hero -- isn't that great
GOLFonline (Associated Press)
22 November 1998
I just said 'Come on you can do it now,' I sure as hell didn't want to go through all that stuff again.
GOLFonline (Associated Press)
22 November 1998
I said just make things easy on me, knock it in for me and he did
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The golfer
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What’s in the bag
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