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Sunday 29 November 2009European TourYear in Review
Italy wins Omega Mission Hills World Cup
Mission Hills Golf Club, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China (region; the course comes with research) · Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 November 2009 · purse US$5.5 million; team purse $5,500,000 with $1,700,000 to the winner (Wikipedia) USD · Omega · 55th World Cup (Wikipedia); 72 holes stroke play, 28 two-man national teams; rounds 1 and 3 four-ball (best ball), rounds 2 and 4 foursomes (alternate shot); no cut (Wikipedia)
Headline from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
10 h 22 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 40° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
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The name over time
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The ones it got away from
- Ireland (Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy) IRL · 260Led after each of the first three rounds (opening 58) and stretched the overnight lead to three on the front nine, but dropped shots at the 8th and 10th and closed with 70 to lose by one (BBC; The Independent) Italy edge Ireland to win World Cup of Golf in China (BBC Sport, 29 Nov 2009)
- Sweden (Robert Karlsson and Henrik Stenson) SWE · 260Defending champions set the clubhouse lead at 28 under with a closing 69 and waited in the scorer's hut (BBC; The Independent) Italy edge Ireland to win World Cup of Golf in China (BBC Sport, 29 Nov 2009)
56 started
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Team cup
Omega Mission Hills World Cup
Mission Hills Golf Club (Olazábal Course), Mission Hills Golf Club, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Italy (Edoardo Molinari and Francesco Molinari)
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
29 November 2009
For the last putt, I didn't want to miss it. And when I saw the ball going in, it was the sweetest feeling on earth.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
29 November 2009
Probably we haven't realised yet what we have done, but we played great for all week, and today we just had to hang in there and try to finish it off in the last few holes.
BBC Sport
29 November 2009
So we can't say we didn't have the luck with us. We just didn't make the most of it.
Top 10
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The golfer
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What’s in the bag
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