The 2006 World Golf Championships-Barbados World Cup took place 7–10 December at the Sandy Lane Resort and Country Club in Barbados. It was the 52nd World Cup and the seventh and last as a World Golf Championship event. 24 countries competed and each country sent two players. The prize money totaled $4,000,000 with $1,400,000 going to the winning pair.[1] The German team of Bernhard Langer and Marcel Siem won. They defeated the Scottish team of Colin Montgomerie and Marc Warren at the first playoff hole.[2][3]

2006 World Cup
Tournament information
Dates7–10 December
LocationSandy Lane Resort, Barbados
13°10′23″N 59°38′13″W / 13.1731°N 59.6369°W / 13.1731; -59.6369
Course(s)Sandy Lane Resort and Country Club
Format72 holes stroke play
(best ball & alternate shot)
Statistics
Par71
Length7,173 yards (6,559 m)
Field24 two-man teams
CutNone
Prize fundUS$4.0 million
Winner's shareUS$1.4 million
Champion
 Germany
Bernhard Langer & Marcel Siem
268 (−16)
Location map
Sandy Lane Resort is located in Caribbean
Sandy Lane Resort
Sandy Lane Resort
Location in the Caribbean
Sandy Lane Resort is located in Barbados
Sandy Lane Resort
Sandy Lane Resort
Location in Barbados
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Qualification and format

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The leading 18 available players from different countries in the Official World Golf Ranking on 11 September 2006 qualified automatically. These 18 players then selected a player from their country to compete with them. The person they pick had to be ranked within the top 100 on the Official World Golf Ranking as of 11 September 11. If there was no other player from that country within the top 100, then the next highest ranked player would be their partner. World qualifiers were held in October 2006. Six countries earned their spot in this way, four from the Asian qualifier and two from the South American qualifier.

The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with each team consisting of two players. The first and third days are fourball play and the second and final days are foursomes play.

Teams

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Country Players
  Argentina Ángel Cabrera and Andrés Romero
  Australia Mark Hensby and John Senden
  Barbados Roger Beale and James Johnson
  Canada Jim Rutledge and Mike Weir
  Colombia Manuel Merizalde and Camilo Villegas
  Denmark Thomas Bjørn and Søren Hansen
  England Luke Donald and David Howell
  France Raphaël Jacquelin and Jean van de Velde
  Germany Bernhard Langer and Marcel Siem
  Ireland Pádraig Harrington and Paul McGinley
  Italy Emanuele Canonica and Francesco Molinari
  Jamaica Delroy Cambridge and Peter Horrobin
  Japan Tetsuji Hiratsuka and Hideto Tanihara
  Mexico José Octavio González and Esteban Toledo
  Scotland Colin Montgomerie and Marc Warren
  Singapore Lam Chih Bing and Mardan Mamat
  South Africa Rory Sabbatini and Richard Sterne
  South Korea Hur Suk-ho and Charlie Wi
  Spain Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño and Miguel Ángel Jiménez
  Sweden Carl Pettersson and Henrik Stenson
  Switzerland Martin Rominger and Nicolas Sulzer
  Trinidad and Tobago Robert Ames and Stephen Ames
  United States Stewart Cink and J. J. Henry
  Wales Stephen Dodd and Bradley Dredge

Scores

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Place Country Score To par Money (US$)
1*   Germany 65-69-68-66=268 −16 1,400,000
2   Scotland 67-67-65-69=268 −16 700,000
3   Sweden 64-70-63-72=269 −15 400,000
4   South Africa 64-71-67-68=270 −14 200,000
T5   Argentina 64-67-67-73=271 −13 126,667
  Spain 69-66-67-69=271
  United States 66-73-63-69=271
T8   Australia 68-72-64-69=273 −11 77,500
  Italy 68-70-64-71=273
  Mexico 69-68-65-71=273
  Wales 65-75-62-71=273
T12   Ireland 67-73-66-69=275 −9 57,500
  Switzerland 73-70-64-68=275
14   Colombia 67-74-66-70=277 −7 50,000
T15   Canada 69-72-66-71=278 −6 48,500
  England 66-70-70-72=278
17   Singapore 71-72-68-69=280 −4 47,000
18   Denmark 70-70-71-70=281 −3 46,000
19   South Korea 66-72-70-75=283 −1 45,000
20   France 68-75-65-77=285 +1 44,000
T21   Barbados 69-76-71-72=288 +4 42,500
  Trinidad and Tobago 70-73-67-78=288
23   Japan 67-74-74-74=289 +5 41,000
24   Jamaica 72-76-67-80=295 +11 40,000

*Germany won with a par on the first playoff hole.
Source[4]

References

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  1. ^ "Fact Sheet: World Golf Championships-Barbados World Cup". PGA Tour. 9 November 2006. Archived from the original on 2 August 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
  2. ^ "Germany edges Scotland in playoff to win WGC-Barbados World Cup". PGA Tour. 10 December 2006. Archived from the original on 30 October 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
  3. ^ "Par on first playoff hole lifts Germany over Scotland". ESPN. Associated Press. 10 December 2006. Retrieved 17 October 2012.
  4. ^ "Final scores and earnings". PGA Tour. 10 December 2006. Archived from the original on 30 October 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2012.

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