1970 World Cup (men's golf)

The 1970 World Cup took place 12–15 November at The Jockey Club in San Isidro 28 kilometers north of the center of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was the 18th World Cup event.

1970 World Cup

Tournament information
Dates	12–15 November
Location	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Course(s)	The Jockey Club
Format	72 holes stroke play combined score
Statistics
Par	72
Length	6,700 yards (6,100 m)
Field	43 two-man teams
Cut	None
Prize fund	US$6,300
Winner's share	$2,000 team $1,000 individual
Champion
Australia Bruce Devlin & David Graham
544 (−32)
Location map
The Jockey Club Location in South America Show map of South America The Jockey Club Location in Argentina Show map of Argentina The Jockey Club Location in Buenos Aires Province Show map of Buenos Aires Province
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The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 43 teams. 44 teams were invited, but the Czechoslovakia team of amateurs Jiri Dvorak and Jan Kunšta withdraw from the tournament before it began. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results.

The Australia team of Bruce Devlin and David Graham won, with a record aggregate of 544, by a record ten stroke margin over the home team Argentina. Australia held a record advantage of 19 strokes going into the final round. This was the third victory for Australia in the history of the World Cup, until 1967 named the Canada Cup. The individual competition was won by Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentina one stroke ahead of Graham. The event was dedicated to the 47-year-old home hero De Vicenzo, who had participated in 15 Canada Cup/World Cup events played and shared in Argentina's victory in the 1953 inaugural event.^[1]

Henrik Lund, Denmark, made a hole-in-one on the par 3 12th hole in the first round.^[2]

Teams

This list is incomplete.

Country	Players
Argentina	Roberto De Vicenzo and Vicente Fernández
Australia	Bruce Devlin and David Graham
Austria	Oswald Gartenmaier and Rudolf Hauser[3]
Belgium	Donald Swaelens and Flory Van Donck[4]
Brazil	Mário Gonzalez and José Maria Gonzalez
Canada	Al Balding and Bob Cox Jr
Chile	Francisco Cerda and Rafael Jerez
China	Hsieh Min-Nan and Hsieh Yung-yo
Colombia	Rogelio Gonzalez and Heracilo Valenzuela
Denmark	Herluf Hansen and Henrik Lund
Dominican Republic
England	Peter Butler and Tony Jacklin
France	Jean Garaïalde and Bernard Pascassio
Greece
Ireland	Hugh Jackson and Jimmy Martin
Italy	Manuel Canessa and Ettore Della Torre[5]
Jamaica
Japan	Takaaki Kono and Haruo Yasuda
Libya	Muftah Salem and Hussein Abdulmullah[6]
Mexico	Ramon Cruz and Reyes Espinosa
Morocco
Netherlands	Jan Dorrestein and Bertus van Mook
New Zealand	Brian Boys and John Lister
Panama
Peru	Rodolfo Coscia and Hugo Nari
Philippines	Ben Arda and Eleuterio Nival
Portugal	Manuel Ribeiro and Joaguin Ridrigues
Puerto Rico	Manuel Camacho and Jose Rivera
Romania	Dumitru Munteanu and Paul Tomita
Scotland	Ronnie Shade and George Will
Singapore	Alvin Liau and Phua Thin Kiay[7]
South Africa	Allan Henning and Harold Henning
South Korea	Hahn Sang-chan and Lee Il-hahn[8]
Spain	Ángel Gallardo and Ramón Sota
Sweden	Åke Bergquist and Tony Lidholm[9]
Switzerland
Thailand	Sukree Onsham and Uthai Thabvibul
United Arab Republic	Cherif El-Sayed Cherif and Mohammed Said Moussa[6]
United States	Dave Stockton and Lee Trevino
Uruguay	Enrique Fernandez and ?
Venezuela
Wales	Brian Huggett and Dave Thomas
West Germany	Roman Krause and Toni Kugelmuller

(a) denotes amateur

Scores

Team

Place	Country	Score	To par	Money (US$) (per team)
1	Australia	131-136-131-146=544	−32	2,000
2	Argentina	134-143-140-137=554	−22	1,000
3	South Africa	142-146-137-138=563	−13	800
4	United States	137-146-139-143=565	−11	400
T5	Italy	147-148-139-138=572	−4
	Wales	144-143-139-146=572
T7	England	141-146-142-146=575	−1
	Spain	144-146-137-148=575
9	Scotland	139-149-143-145=576	E
T10	France	142-143-143-150=578	+2
	Japan	143-142-145-148=578
12	Philippines	145-141-147-152=585	+9
13	Mexico	147-148-144-147=586	+10
T14	Chile	144-145-147-151=587	+11
	New Zealand	140-152-144-151=587
	China	142-153-147-145=587
17	Ireland	144-145-147-152=588	+12
18	Denmark	141-141-151-157=590	+14
19	West Germany	149-145-148-151=593	+17
T20	Canada	147-147-148-153=595	+19
	Colombia	149-150-148-148=595
	Thailand	142- =595
23	Netherlands	141-152-152-151=596	+20
24	South Korea	147-150-151-149=597	+21
25	Uruguay	598	+22
26	Belgium	149-148-151-153=601	+25
27	Brazil	145-152-148-157=602	+26
T28	Puerto Rico	142-159-155-148=604	+28
	United Arab Republic	604
30	Sweden	607	+31
T31	Jamaica	612	+36
	Peru	612
	Venezuela	612
T34	Panama	613	+37
	Portugal	153-154-156-150=613
36	Dominican Republic	616	+40
37	Austria	622	+46
38	Singapore	624	+48
39	Greece	626	+50
40	Morocco
41	Switzerland	653	+77
42	Libya [10]	656	+80
43	Romania [10]	727	+151

International Trophy

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Roberto De Vicenzo	Argentina	64-67-68-70=269	−19	1,000
2	David Graham	Australia	68-67-65-73=270	−18	500
3	Bruce Devlin	Australia	66-69-66-73=274	−14	400
T4	Allan Henning	South Africa	68-72-69-70=279	−9	100
	Dave Stockton	United States	67-73-69-70=279
6	Jean Garaïalde	France	71-69-73-69=282	−6
7	Ettore Della Torre	Italy	73-75-69-66=283	−5
T8	Peter Butler	England	72-73-69-70=284	−4
	Francesco Cerda	Chile	72-69-71-72=284
	Harold Henning	South Africa	74-74-68-68=284
	Haruo Yasuda	Japan	70-72-69-73=284

Sources:^{[11][8][12][7][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]}

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