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21st WOMEN'S WORLD AMATEUR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
20-23 October 2004 (Women's Championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy) Rio Mar Country Club PAR AND YARDAGE Rio Mar Country Club's two courses, Ocean and River, will be used for the championship. For the Espirito Santo Trophy: Ocean (Par: 36-3672, 6,159 yards/5,629 meters); River (Par: 36-3672, 5,956 yards/5,444 meters) For the Eisenhower Trophy: Ocean (Par: 36-3672, 6,807 yards/6,222 meters); River (Par: 36-3672, 6,873 yards/6,282 meters) GOLF COURSE ARCHITECTS Greg Norman designed the River Course, which opened in 1997. George and Tom Fazio designed the Ocean Course, which opened in 1976. Rio Mar Country Club hosted the inaugural Copa de las Americas in June of 2003.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS The Ocean Course was built alongside the coast of the Atlantic. This design features tree-lined fairways and small greens. The River Course is located near the Mameyes River and the El Yunque National Rainforest. The design includes tropical wetlands and protected archaeological areas. WHAT ARE THE WORLD AMATEUR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS? Conducted by the International Golf Federation (formerly the World Amateur Golf Council), which comprises the national governing bodies of golf in more than 100 countries, the World Amateur Team Championships are a biennial international amateur golf competition rotated among three geographic zones: Asia-Pacific, American and European-African. The Puerto Rico Golf Association (www.prga.org), celebrating its 50th anniversary year, will host the 2004 World Amateur Team Championships. FORMAT -- Each team, which has two or three players, plays 18 holes of stroke play for four days. In each round, the total of the two lowest scores by players from each team constitutes the team score for the round. The four-day (72-hole) total is the team's score for the championship. ELIGIBILITY Players must be amateur golfers under the Rules of Amateur Status of either The R&A or the United States Golf Association. SCHEDULE OF PLAY During the Espirito Santo Trophy competition, 18 holes of stroke play will be conducted Wednesday, Oct. 20, through Saturday, Oct. 23. Starting times will begin at 7 a.m. (AT). During Eisenhower Trophy competition, 18 holes of stroke play will be conducted Thursday, Oct. 28, through Sunday, Oct. 31. Each team will play twice on each of Rio Mar's two golf courses. Starting times, off two tees for the Eisenhower Trophy competition only, will begin at 7 a.m. (AT). PRIZES The winning team in the women's competition receives custody of the Espirito Santo Trophy for the ensuing two years. The winning team in the men's competition receives custody of the Eisenhower Trophy for the ensuing two years. Members of the winning team receive gold medals; members of the second-place team receive silver medals; and members of the third-place team receive bronze medals. In 2004, record-setting numbers of teams will play for both the Eisenhower Trophy (70) and Espirito Santo Trophy (50). WWW.INTERNATIONALGOLFFEDERATION.ORG Log on to the International Golf Federation Internet site (www.internationalgolffederation.org) for past World Amateur results and information during the Championships. 2002 WOMEN'S REVIEW (20 th Espirito Santo Trophy) Australia methodically climbed the leaderboard after a slow start and won the Espirito Santo Trophy in a tiebreaker over Thailand at Saujana Golf and Country Club in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was Australia 's second title, its first coming in 1978. Led by All-American college teammates from Pepperdine University, Lindsey Wright and Katherine Hull, the Australians overcame Thailand, which had led for three consecutive days. Both teams tied at 6-under-par 578 over the par-73 Palm and Bunga Raya courses at Saujana. Australia was 20th after the first round, fifth after the second and tied for third after the third. The championship was decided on the criteria of third individual score in the fourth round with Australia's Vicky Uwland shooting 75 and Thailand 's Titiya Plucksataporn shooting 81. Liz Cavill, who twice played in the WATC, served as Australia's captain. Spain finished third, Germany fourth and the USA fifth. 2002 MEN'S REVIEW (23rd Eisenhower Trophy) The USA defended the Eisenhower Trophy and won the international prize for the 12th time, defeating France by three strokes at Saujana Golf and Country Club in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. D.J. Trahan, the USA College Player of the Year at Clemson University, shot a final-round 6-under-par 66 to lead the American surge that erased a three-stroke deficit after three rounds. Two other collegiate All-Americans represented the USA: Ricky Barnes, the 2002 U.S. Amateur champion, and Hunter Mahan, the 1999 U.S. Junior Amateur champion. Two-time USGA Senior Amateur champion O. Gordon Brewer was the American captain. Australia and the Philippines finished tied for third and Austria and New Zealand shared fifth place. HISTORY OF THE WORLD AMATEUR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP — The idea of a World Amateur Team Championship and the International Golf Federation grew out of a suggestion that the USGA received to sponsor a team match between the USA and Japan in 1957. The USGA, which was fortunate to have received many such invitations from other countries, simply could not accept them all. The USGA instead suggested a team competition that would bring together the best players of all countries, accommodating all possible interests. Even those American advocates of adding golf to the Olympics seemed satisfied with the World Team Championship idea. In January 1958, the USGA Executive Committee approved in principal a plan for such a championship. That March, a group of USGA representatives, including USGA President John D. Ames, met with officials of The Royal & Ancient Golf Club to discuss the plan. St. Andrews was proposed as the site of the first Championship later that year. The R&A joined in implementing the idea. In May, representatives of the national amateur golf associations of 35 countries attending a planning conference in Washington, D.C., formed the World Amateur Golf Council (changed to the International Golf Federation in 2003). The council had 32 member organizations, and planned the first Championship. President Dwight D. Eisenhower received the delegates in the Rose Garden of the White House and consented to the naming of the championship prize as the Eisenhower Trophy. Eisenhower endorsed the concept, saying, Both officially and personally, I am interested in the plan advanced by the USGA for an amateur team golf championship among nations. I visualize it, as you do, as a potent force for establishing goodwill and friendship between yet another segment of the populations of nations. The Championship received yet another stroke of good luck when Bob Jones agreed to be captain of the first USA team. Jones had taken the first leg of his 1930 Grand Slam at St. Andrews by winning the British Amateur, but 22 years had passed since he had last visited there. The first Championship was played over the Old Course of St. Andrews in October 1958, and 115 players, representing 29 countries, competed. Australia won in a playoff with the USA. The lowest individual scores for the 72 holes were 301s by William Hyndman III of the USA, Bruce Devlin of Australia and Reid Jack of Great Britain & Ireland. Jack Nicklaus, who represented the USA in 1960 at Merion Golf Club (East Course), in Ardmore, Pa., holds the 72-hole individual scoring record of 269, although individual champions are not recognized. The United States of America has prevailed in 12 of the 23 competitions and Great Britain & Ireland has won four times, while countries as diverse in the world of golf as Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Sweden have each captured the Eisenhower Trophy. The World Amateur Team Championship has now been conducted in 22 different nations. HISTORY OF THE WOMEN'S WORLD AMATEUR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP What began as a proposal for a match in 1964 between the USA and France grew into the Women's World Amateur Team Championship.The impetus for this championship was an invitation by the French Golf Federation for the USA Curtis Cup team to stop off in France for an informal match after that year's Curtis Cup Match in Wales. The USGA accepted the invitation, but also suggested inviting other nations to create a women's counterpart to the World Amateur Team Championship. That event for men's teams began in 1958 after an invitation from Japan to establish a match between the two nations. The French were delighted to sponsor the inaugural women's Championship and arranged for it to be played at the St. Germain Golf Club, near Paris, in October 1964. The event, under the chairmanship of Vicomtesse de Saint-Sauveur, was a triumph. A total of 25 teams and 75 players participated, which instantly established the competition as a member of international golf's family of championships. Spectator enthusiasm at the first championship was keen, since the host team prevailed over the USA by one stroke. The French player Catherine Lacoste, who would later become a heroine of the amateur game when she won the 1967 U.S. Women's Open (she remains the only amateur to win that championship), was a big factor in the excitement in her home country. Her final-round 73 secured the Espirito Santo Trophy for France. Miss Lacoste tied with Carol Sorenson of the USA at 294 for low individual honors. While no official recognition is given for individual champions, Jenny Chuasiriporn of the USA lowered the 72-hole individual scoring record in 1998. She shot 276 at Prince of Wales Country Club in Santiago, Chile, two shots better than the score returned by countrywoman Wendy Ward four years earlier at The National Golf Club in Versailles, France. In 1966, the World Amateur Golf Council assumed sponsorship of future Women's World Amateur Team Championships. Since its second-place finish in the inaugural event, the USA has dominated, winning 13 times. Spain (1986, 1992) and France (1964, 2000) are the only other multiple victors. In 2003, the group's name was changed to the International Golf Federation. PAST PLAYERS OF NOTE: Since the inception of the World Amateur Team Championships, the best amateurs in the world have participated. Many of those players are the most recognized in the game of golf. Here's a capsule look: Women Men Catherine Lacoste (FRA) '64, '66. '68, '70 Bob Charles (NZL) '58, 60 Nancy Lopez (USA) '76 Jack Nicklaus (USA) 60 Beth Daniel (USA) '78 Tom Kite (USA) 70 Juli Inkster (USA) '80, ' 82 Ben Crenshaw (USA) 72 Liselotte Neumann (SWE) '82, '84 Curtis Strange (USA) 74 Hiromi Kobayashi (JAP) '82, '86 Nick Price (ZIM) 76 Helen Alfredsson (SWE) '86, '88 Scott Hoch (USA) 78 Wendy Doolan (AUS) '90 Vijay Singh (FIJ) 80 Annika Sorenstam (SWE) '90, '92 Colin Montgomerie (GBI) 84 Lorie Kane (CAN) '92 Jose Maria Olazabal (ESP) 84 Patricia Meunier-Lebouc (FRA) '92 Jesper Parnevik (SWE) '84, 86 Maria Hjorth (SWE) '92, '94 Robert Allenby (AUS) 90 Mi Hyun Kim (KOR) '94 Shigeki Maruyama (JAP) 90 Se Ri Pak (KOR) '94 Phil Mickelson (USA) 90 Karrie Webb (AUS) '94 David Duval (USA) '90, 92 Kelli Kuehne (USA) '96 Michael Campbell (NZL) 92 Mhairi McKay (GBI) '96 Justin Leonard (USA) 92 Janice Moodie (GBI) '96 Tiger Woods (USA) 94 Dorothy Delasin (PHI) '96, '98 Sergio Garcia (ESP) '96, 98 Grace Park (KOR) '98 Trevor Immelman (RSA) 98 Lorena Ochoa (MEX) '98, '00 Aaron Baddelley (AUS) '98, 00 Hilary Homeyer Lunke ( USA ) '00 Ben Curtis (USA) 00 RIO MAR COUNTRY CLUB HOLE BY HOLE: Espirito Santo : Ocean Course Hole by Hole (6,159 yards/5,629 meters, par 72) (2,967 yds/2,712 mtrs OUT, par 36) Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Yards 351 365 469 150 450 330 336 172 344 Meters 321 334 429 137 411 302 307 157 314 Par 4 4 5 3 5 4 4 3 4 (3,192 yds/2,917 mtrs IN, par 36) Hole 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yards 384 517 160 374 340 490 187 362 378 Meters 351 473 146 342 311 448 171 331 345 Par 4 5 3 4 4 5 3 4 4 Espirito Santo : River Course Hole by Hole (5,954 yards/5,444 meters, par 72) (3,059 yds/2,796 mtrs OUT, par 36) Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Yards 382 353 132 480 330 342 162 500 378 Meters 349 323 121 439 302 313 148 457 345 Par 4 4 3 5 4 4 3 5 4 (2,897 yds/2,648 mts IN, par 36) Hole 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yards 139 453 289 283 143 477 369 377 367 Meters 127 414 264 259 131 436 337 345 335 Par 3 5 4 4 3 5 4 4 4 Eisenhower : Ocean Course Hole by Hole (6,807 yards/6,222 meters, par 72) (3,315 yds/3,030 mtrs OUT, par 36) Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Yards 363 409 531 174 490 344 393 205 406 Meters 332 374 485 159 448 314 359 187 371 Par 4 4 5 3 5 4 4 3 4 (3,492 yds/3,192 mtrs IN, par 36) Hole 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yards 397 562 190 405 354 508 238 420 418 Meters 363 514 174 370 324 464 218 384 382 Par 4 5 3 4 4 5 3 4 4 Eisenhower : River Course Hole by Hole (6,873 yards/6,282 meters, par 72) (3,506 yds/3,204 mtrs OUT, par 36) Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Yards 435 419 192 533 338 391 185 547 466 Meters 398 383 175 487 309 357 169 500 426 Par 4 4 3 5 4 4 3 5 4 (3,367 yds/3,077 mtrs IN, par 36) Hole 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Yards 177 562 358 289 174 544 423 392 448 Meters 162 514 327 264 159 497 387 358 409 Par 3 5 4 4 3 5 4 4 4 FUTURE SITES The 2006 World Amateur Team Championship will be played near Cape Town, South Africa. These Championships will be hosted by the South African Golf Association in conjunction with the South African Ladies Golf Union. South Africa was designated as the ninth different European-African Zone nation to host the biennial championships, which gather some of the best amateurs in the world. |
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