2008 Eisenhower Trophy


The 2008 Eisenhower Trophy took place 16–19 October at Royal Adelaide Golf Club and on the West course at The Grange Golf Club in Adelaide, Australia. It was the 26th World Amateur Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy and the second to be held in Australia. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 65 three-man teams. The best two scores for each round counted towards the team total. Each team played two rounds on the two courses. The leading teams played at The Grange Golf Club on the third day and at Royal Adelaide Golf Club on the final day.
Scotland won their first Eisenhower Trophy, nine strokes ahead of the United States, who took the silver medal. Sweden took the bronze medal while France and Italy tied for fourth place. Rickie Fowler had the best 72-hole aggregate of 280, 10 under par.
The 2008 Espirito Santo Trophy was played at The Grange Golf Club one week prior.

Teams

65 teams contested the event. Each team had three played with the exception of Bolivia, Guatemala and Honduras who only has two.
The following table lists the players on the leading teams.
CountryPlayers
Julián Etulain, Jorge Fernández-Valdés, Emiliano Grillo
Rohan Blizard, Matthew Griffin, Tim Stewart
Xavier Feyaerts, Kevin Hesbois, Hugues Joannes
Jordan Irwin, David Markle, Nick Taylor
Lucas Bjerregaard, Morten Ørum Madsen, Rasmus Hjelm Nielsen
Luke Goddard, Sam Hutsby, Dale Whitnell
Victor Dubuisson, Benjamin Hébert, Alexandre Kaleka
Saurabh Bahuguna, Rashid Khan, Gagan Verma
Jonathan Caldwell, Paul Cutler, Shane Lowry
Nino Bertasio, Federico Colombo, Andrea Pavan
Hideki Matsuyama, Shunsuke Sonoda, Yuki Usami
Floris de Vries, Richard Kind, Reinier Saxton
James Gill, Danny Lee, Jared Pender
Knut Børsheim, Anders Kristiansen, Espen Kofstad
Wallace Booth, Gavin Dear, Callum Macaulay
Jacques Blaauw, Dylan Frittelli, Cameron Johnston
Kim Bi-o, Kim Woo-hyun, Song Tae-hoon
Jorge Campillo, Borja Etchart, Pedro Oriol
Jesper Kennegård, Henrik Norlander, Pontus Widegren
Mustafa Hocaoğlu, Gencer Özcan, Hamza Hakan Sayin
Rickie Fowler, Billy Horschel, Jamie Lovemark
Nigel Edwards, Rhys Enoch, Ben Westgate

Results

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Individual leaders

There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.
#PlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Rickie Fowler68-67-70-75=280−10
T2Callum Macaulay67-70-73-72=282−8
T2Nick Taylor73-71-68-70=282−8
4Wallace Booth70-67-69-79=285−5
5Sam Hutsby70-72-75-70=287−3
T6Nicolás Geyger73-70-71-74=288−2
T6Pedro Oriol73-70-68-77=288−2
T8Federico Colombo78-71-68-72=289−1
T8Jesper Kennegård70-72-68-79=289−1
T10Julián Etulain75-68-76-71=290E
T10Jorge Fernández-Valdés76-67-70-77=290E
T10Dylan Frittelli71-71-72-76=290E
T10Matthew Griffin72-71-70-77=290E

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