1998 Eisenhower Trophy

The 1998 Eisenhower Trophy took place 19 to 22 November at Club de Golf Los Leones and Club de Golf La Dehesa in Santiago, Chile. It was the 21st World Amateur Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 52 four-man teams. The best three scores for each round counted towards the team total. Each team played two rounds on the two courses. The leading teams played at Club de Golf La Dehesa on the third day and at Club de Golf Los Leones on the final day.

1998 Eisenhower Trophy
Tournament information
Dates19–22 November
LocationSantiago, Chile
33°27′S 70°40′W / 33.450°S 70.667°W / -33.450; -70.667
Course(s)Club de Golf Los Leones
Club de Golf La Dehesa
Format72 holes stroke play
Statistics
Par71 (Los Leones)
72 (La Dehesa)
Field52 teams
208 players
Champion
 Great Britain &  Ireland
Luke Donald, Paddy Gribben,
Lorne Kelly & Gary Wolstenholme
852 (−6)
Location map
Location in Chile
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Great Britain and Ireland won the Eisenhower Trophy for the fourth time, finishing four strokes ahead of the silver medalists, Australia. Chinese Taipei took the bronze medal with Japan in fourth place. Finland led after three rounds but a poor last round dropped then into fifth place. Kim Felton, representing Australia, had the lowest individual score, 11-under-par 275, two strokes better than Mikko Ilonen.

Teams

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52 four-man teams contested the event.

The following table lists the players on the leading teams.[1]

Country Players
  Australia Aaron Baddeley, Kim Felton, Brendan Jones, Brett Rumford
  Canada Steven Davies, Stephen Dixon, Jon Drewery, Robert Kerr
  Chinese Taipei Chan Yih-shin, Hong Chia-yuh, Lee Cho-chuan, Su Chin-jung
  Denmark Peter Jespersen, Søren Muller, Mads Vibe-Hastrup, Morten Vildhoej
  Finland Mikko Ilonen, Panu Kylliäinen, Ari Pasanen, Henri Salonen
  Germany Philipp Neels, Benjamin Schlichting, Marcel Siem, Michael Thannhäuser
  Great Britain
&   Ireland
Luke Donald, Paddy Gribben, Lorne Kelly, Gary Wolstenholme
  Japan Hidemasa Hoshino, Tomohiro Kondo, Yūsaku Miyazato, Masahide Wada
  South Africa Henk Alberts, Jean Hugo, Trevor Immelman, Dean Lambert
  South Korea Kim Dae-seb, Kim Hyung-tae, Kim Sung-yoon, Noe Woo-sung
  Spain Sergio García, Alejandro Larrazábal, Álvaro Mata, Raúl Quirós
  Sweden Peter Hanson, Anders Hultman, Christian Nilsson, Henrik Stenson
  United States Joel Kribel, Matt Kuchar, Hank Kuehne, Tom McKnight

Scores

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Place Country Score To par
    Great Britain
&   Ireland
211-218-215-208=852 −6
    Australia 217-214-213-212=856 −2
    Chinese Taipei 217-218-212-211=858 E
4   Japan 217-218-213-211=859 +1
5   Finland 210-214-217-219=860 +2
6   Sweden 214-227-213-207=861 +3
7   United States 209-218-217-221=865 +7
T8   Germany 216-216-221-215=868 +10
  Spain 219-217-214-218=868
10   South Africa 218-217-222-213=870 +12
11   South Korea 218-215-220-219=872 +14
12   Denmark 220-221-220-212=873 +15
13   France 222-220-218-215=875 +17
14   Netherlands 227-216-223-212=878 +20
T15   Colombia 218-223-219-219=879 +21
  India 219-224-222-214=879
17   Norway 223-217-223-217=880 +22
T18   Argentina 217-228-224-213=882 +24
  Brazil 220-215-232-215=882
  Puerto Rico 216-212-232-222=882
T21   Italy 223-226-216-218=883 +25
  New Zealand 226-214-225-218=883
23   Chile 220-221-217-226=884 +26
24   Canada 225-225-221-214=885 +27
25   Austria 224-223-219-220=886 +28
26   Uruguay 226-221-218-225=890 +32
T27   Belgium 217-225-235-216=893 +35
  Mexico 229-225-216-223=893
T29   Malaysia 225-226-224-221=896 +38
  Philippines 230-222-217-227=896
31   Zimbabwe 222-229-221-225=897 +39
32   Portugal 227-223-224-231=905 +47
33   Venezuela 227-232-232-217=908 +50
34   Ecuador 224-227-227-233=911 +53
35   Dominican Republic 229-231-222-234=916 +58
36   Switzerland 222-234-234-231=921 +63
37   Peru 232-227-232-232=923 +65
38   Guatemala 235-231-226-235=927 +69
39   Hong Kong 225-234-244-231=934 +76
40   Morocco 235-233-226-241=935 +77
41   Paraguay 234-234-241-229=938 +80
T42   Bermuda 235-235-237-238=945 +87
  Costa Rica 240-236-234-235=945
44   Bolivia 247-236-237-232=952 +94
45   Greece 232-247-240-238=957 +99
46   Bahamas 243-241-247-240=971 +113
47   Egypt 248-254-242-244=988 +130
48   El Salvador 248-245-244-252=989 +131
49   Estonia 252-255-242-249=998 +140
50   Croatia 258-260-267-271=1056 +198
51   Slovakia 268-274-264-273=1079 +221
52   Latvia 302-293-286-286=1167 +309

Source:[1]

Individual leaders

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There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.

Place Player Country Score To par
1 Kim Felton   Australia 70-67-69-69=275 −11
2 Mikko Ilonen   Finland 67-70-71-69=277 −9
T3 Luke Donald   Great Britain
&   Ireland
70-70-69-71=280 −6
Chan Yih-shin   Chinese Taipei 71-69-72-68=280
5 Wilfredo Morales   Puerto Rico 67-68-75-71=281 −5
6 Gary Wolstenholme   Great Britain
&   Ireland
70-71-74-67=282 −4
T7 Sergio García   Spain 72-71-69-73=285 −1
Tomohiro Kondo   Japan 75-72-67-71=285
T9 Christian Aronsen   Norway 74-70-76-66=286 E
Kim Hyung-tae   South Korea 72-72-70-72=286

Source:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "1998 World Amateur Golf Team Championship Record Book" (PDF). World Amateur Golf Council. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
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