2005 WGC-World Cup
# 2005 WGC-World Cup

The 2005 WGC-World Cup took place 17–20 November at the Oceânico Golf on its Victoria Course in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal. It was the 51st World Cup and the sixth as a World Golf Championship event.

The course was designed by Arnold Palmer and opened in 2004, the year before it hosted the World Cup. Eleven years after this tournament, in 2016, Dom Pedro Golf acquired the Victoria Course and four other Vilamoura courses from Oceânico Golf.

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. The Welsh team of Stephen Dodd and Bradley Dredge won. They won by two strokes over the English and Swedish teams after the event was shortened to 54 holes due to rain.

## Qualification and format

The defending champion was joined by 18 teams based on the Official World Golf Ranking and five teams via qualification.

The tournament was scheduled to be a 72-hole stroke play team event with each team consisting of two players. The first and third days were fourball play and the second and final days were foursomes play. The final round was canceled due to rain.

## Teams

| Country | Players |
| - | - |
| Argentina | Ángel Cabrera and Ricardo González |
| Australia | Mark Hensby and Peter Lonard |
| Colombia | Eduardo Herrera and Diego Vanegas |
| Denmark | Anders Hansen and Søren Hansen |
| England | Luke Donald and David Howell |
| France | Raphaël Jacquelin and Thomas Levet |
| Germany | Alex Čejka and Christian Reimbold |
| India | Arjun Atwal and Jyoti Randhawa |
| Ireland | Pádraig Harrington and Paul McGinley |
| Japan | Yasuharu Imano and Takuya Taniguchi |
| Mexico | Pablo del Olmo and Alex Quiroz |
| Netherlands | Robert-Jan Derksen and Maarten Lafeber |
| Paraguay | Carlos Franco and Marco Ruiz |
| Portugal | José-Filipe Lima and Antonio Sobrinho |
| Scotland | Scott Drummond and Stephen Gallacher |
| Singapore | Lam Chih Bing and Mardan Mamat |
| South Africa | Tim Clark and Trevor Immelman |
| South Korea | K. J. Choi and Jang Ik-jae |
| Spain | Sergio García and Miguel Ángel Jiménez |
| Sweden | Niclas Fasth and Henrik Stenson |
| Taiwan | Chang Tse-peng and Wang Ter-chang |
| United States | Stewart Cink and Zach Johnson |
| Venezuela | Manuel Bermudez and Carlos Larrain |
| Wales | Stephen Dodd and Bradley Dredge |

## Scores

| Place | Country | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Wales | 61-67-61=189 | −27 | 1,400,000 |
| T2 | England | 59-69-63=191 | −25 | 550,000 |
| T2 | Sweden | 61-67-63=191 | −25 | 550,000 |
| 4 | France | 63-70-61=194 | −22 | 200,000 |
| 5 | Denmark | 64-68-63=195 | −21 | 145,000 |
| T6 | Netherlands | 63-67-66=196 | −20 | 117,500 |
| T6 | Argentina | 68-61-67=196 | −20 | 117,500 |
| 8 | Germany | 65-68-64=197 | −19 | 95,000 |
| 9 | India | 60-73-65=198 | −18 | 80,000 |
| T10 | Taiwan | 62-71-66=199 | −17 | 67,500 |
| T10 | Spain | 62-72-65=199 | −17 | 67,500 |
| T12 | South Africa | 68-67-65=200 | −16 | 55,000 |
| T12 | Ireland | 67-69-64=200 | −16 | 55,000 |
| T12 | South Korea | 67-71-62=200 | −16 | 55,000 |
| T15 | Japan | 63-70-68=201 | −15 | 48,500 |
| T15 | Paraguay | 63-73-65=201 | −15 | 48,500 |
| T17 | Australia | 60-73-69=202 | −14 | 46,000 |
| T17 | Mexico | 67-71-64=202 | −14 | 46,000 |
| T17 | United States | 65-70-67=202 | −14 | 46,000 |
| T20 | Singapore | 67-70-66=203 | −13 | 43,000 |
| T20 | Scotland | 65-74-64=203 | −13 | 43,000 |
| T20 | Portugal | 68-72-63=203 | −13 | 43,000 |
| 23 | Colombia | 66-74-69=209 | −7 | 41,000 |
| 24 | Venezuela | 66-75-69=210 | −6 | 40,000 |

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