1979 World Cup (men's golf)


The 1979 World Cup took place 8–11 November at the Glyfada Golf Club in Athens, Greece. It was the 27th World Cup event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 46 notified teams. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The South Africa team was invited to the event and their team of Hugh Baiocchi and Dale Hayes took part in practice and pro-am competition, but was informed by the Greece government shortly before the beginning of competition, they were not allowed to start. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The United States team of John Mahaffey and Hale Irwin won by ten strokes over the Scotland team of Ken Brown and Sandy Lyle.
The individual competition for the International Trophy was won by Irwin two strokes ahead of Bernhard Langer, West Germany and Lyle, Scotland.

Teams

denotes amateur

Scores

Team
#CountryScoreTo parMoney
1141-141-152-141=575−16,000
2145-145-150-140=580+43,000
3147-153-144-146=590+14
4148-144-153-148=593+17
5144-149-146-155=594+18
6150-153-148-146=597+21
T7150-148-155-146=599+23
T7147-150-151-151=599+23
T9153-145-147-155=600+24
T9151-150-150-149=600+24
T11149-154-149-150=602+26
T11160-145-150-147=602+26
13150-150-152-153=605+29
14151-153-152-152=608+32
15156-155-150-149=610+34
16151-155-150-157=613+37
17154-154-154-153=615+39
18152-154-151-161=618+42
T19147-154-157-161=619+43
T19150-157-155-157=619+43
21160-158-148-155=621+45
22155-159-160-148=622+46
23159-160-154-153=626+50
24165-158-154-151=628+52
T25160-166-153-155=634+58
T25158-162-154-160=634+58
27161-163-155-157=636+60
28166-155-155-161=637+61
29161-161-154-162=638+62
30162-157-159-161=639+63
T31162-162-154-162=640+64
T31162-158-161-159=640+64
T33158-156-162-167=643+67
T33162-168-162-151=643+67
T35160-156-166-164=646+70
T35159-164-156-167=646+70
37169-164-158-163=654+78
38172-157-158-168=655+79
39169-165-158-170=662+86
40166-178-159-163=666+90
41167-168-170-163=668+92
42165-172-169-177=683+107
43170-174-183-175=702+126
44188-186-177-184=735+159
DQ158-143-148-DQ

Dassù of Italy was disqualified after signing an incorrect scorecard.
International Trophy
#PlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney US$
1Hale Irwin74-70-72-69=285−33,000
T2Bernhard Langer74-70-71-71=287−1
T2Sandy Lyle72-73-73-69=287−1
4Jaime Gonzalez73-71-72-72=288E
5Antonio Garrido74-76-66-73=289+1
6John Mahaffey67-71-80-72=290+2
7Ramón Muñoz72-78-70-72=292+4
T8Ken Brown73-72-77-71=293+5
T8Lu Hsi-chuen71-73-72-77=293+5
T8Kazuo Yoshikawa71-74-73-75=293+5

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