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Sunday 10 December 2000PGA Tour · European TourYear in Review
United States wins WGC-EMC World Cup
Buenos Aires Golf Club, Buenos Aires, Argentina · Thursday 7 to Sunday 10 December 2000 · purse $3,000,000 USD · EMC · 46th World Cup and the first as a World Golf Championship (Wikipedia; ASAP Sports moderator: "the inaugural playing of the EMC2 World Cup as a World Golf Championships event"); 24 two-man national teams, 72 holes stroke play, no cut; name as ASAP Sports prints it ("WGC EMC World Cup"); listed as an unofficial event (WGC) on both the 2000 PGA Tour and European Tour schedules; not an official money event on any tour (World Golf Championships, Wikipedia)
Headline from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
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The ones it got away from
- Argentina (Ángel Cabrera and Eduardo Romero) ARG · 257The home pair closed to within reach when Romero eagled the 9th as the U.S. bogeyed, but failed to birdie the par-5 14th after a bogey at the 13th, and finished three back ASAP Sports: Angel Cabrera, Eduardo Romero, 10 Dec 2000
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Team cup
WGC-EMC World Cup
Buenos Aires Golf Club, Buenos Aires Golf Club, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Winner
United States (David Duval and Tiger Woods)
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From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
10 December 2000
We were somehow fortunate enough to make a couple more putts than the Argentine team.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
10 December 2000
It was even more fun than I imagined coming down and playing golf with Tiger down here in Argentina.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
10 December 2000
But I think the mistake was the 14th hole. I think that hole was where it was defined.
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