1959 Canada Cup


The 1959 Canada Cup took place 18–21 November at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Melbourne, Australia. It was the seventh Canada Cup event, which became the World Cup in 1967. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 30 teams. These were the same teams that had competed in 1958 but without Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela and with the addition of Indonesia. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The Australian team of Kel Nagle and Peter Thomson won by 10 strokes over the American team of Cary Middlecoff and Sam Snead. The individual competition was won by Canadian Stan Leonard, who beat Peter Thomson at the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.

Teams

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Scores

Team
#CountryScoreTo par
1137-139-144-143=563+3
2145-140-148-140=573+13
3144-139-144-147=574+14
4144-147-142-147=580+20
5150-145-146-147=588+28
6144-143-154-149=590+30
7158-147-146-144=595+35
8152-152-146-147=597+37
T9151-153-150-147=601+41
T9152-145-147-157=601+41
11152-151-151-148=602+42
12150-148-151-154=603+43
13147-148-148-162=605+45
14155-150-150-153=608+48
15151-152-154-152=609+49
16151-157-152-159=619+59
T17157-154-145-166=622+62
T17154-149-160-159=622+62
T17154-155-153-160=622+62
20155-152-160-158=625+65
21160-157-157-157=631+71
22159-149-160-169=637+77
23168-154-168-161=651+91
T24165-156-164-167=652+92
T24164-161-163-164=652+92
26166-161-161-166=654+94
27173-166-159-157=655+95
28167-165-161-165=658+98
29166-162-162-172=662+102
30185-181-179-181=726+166

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International Trophy
#PlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Stan Leonard70-66-69-70=275−5
2Peter Thomson67-69-68-71=275−5
3Sam Snead73-65-73-70=281+1
4Gary Player72-72-71-69=284+4
5Kel Nagle70-70-76-72=288+8
T6Eric Brown78-72-75-67=292+12
T6Chen Ching-Po76-73-71-72=292+12
T6Cary Middlecoff72-75-75-70=292+12
T6Flory Van Donck70-75-75-72=292+12
10Peter Alliss73-74-70-76=293+13

Leonard beat Thomson at the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.
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