1966 Canada Cup
# 1966 Canada Cup

The 1966 Canada Cup took place 11–14 November at the Tokyo Yomiuri Country Club in Inagi, Tokyo, Japan. It was the 14th Canada Cup event, which became the World Cup in 1967. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 36 teams. These were the same teams that had competed in 1965 with the addition of South Korea and Thailand, but without Egypt, Monaco and Morocco. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The American team of Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer won by five strokes over the South African team of Harold Henning and Gary Player. The individual competition was won by the Canadian George Knudson, who won at the second hole of a sudden-playoff over the Japanese Hideyo Sugimoto.

## Teams

| Country | Players |
| - | - |
| Argentina | Roberto De Vicenzo and Leopoldo Ruiz |
| Australia | Bruce Devlin and Kel Nagle |
| Austria | Oswald Gertenmaier and Hans Stroll |
| Belgium | Donald Swaelens and Flory Van Donck |
| Brazil | José Maria Gonzalez and Igolata Reis |
| Canada | Frank Fowler and George Knudson |
| Chile | Francisco Cerda and Alberto Salas |
| Colombia | Alfonso Bohórquez and Pedro Pablo García |
| Czechoslovakia | Jiri Dvorak (a) and Jan Kunšta (a) |
| Denmark | Herluf Hansen and Jorgen Korfitzen |
| England | Peter Alliss and Tony Jacklin |
| France | Jean Garaïalde and Jean-Claude Harismendy |
| West Germany | Herbert Becker and Toni Kugelmüller |
| Hawaii | Ted Makalena and Paul Scodeller |
| Ireland | Jimmy Martin and Christy O'Connor Snr |
| Italy | Roberto Bernardini and Emanuele Canessa |
| Japan | Mitsutaka Kono and Hideyo Sugimoto |
| Mexico | José González and Juan Neri |
| Netherlands | Martin Roesink and André van Pinxten |
| New Zealand | Frank Buckler and Bob Charles |
| Peru | Hugo Nari and Bernabé Fajardo |
| Philippines | Ben Arda and Luis Silverio (a) |
| Portugal | Fernando Pina and Manuel Ribeiro |
| Puerto Rico | Juan Gonzalez and Chi-Chi Rodríguez |
| Scotland | Eric Brown and John Panton |
| South Africa | Harold Henning and Gary Player |
| South Korea | Han Chang-sang and Hong Duck-san |
| Spain | Valentín Barrios and Sebastián Miguel |
| Sweden | Åke Bergquist and Harry Karlsson-Fakt |
| Switzerland | Jacky Bonvin and Ronald Tingley |
| Taiwan | Chen Ching-Po and Lu Liang-Huan |
| Thailand | Uthai Dabpavibul and Seng Suwankart |
| United States | Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer |
| Uruguay | Enrique Fernández and Juan Sereda |
| Venezuela | Franci Betancourt and Teobaldo Perez |
| Wales | Sid Mouland and Dave Thomas |
| West Germany | Herbert Becker and Toni Kugelmüller |

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## Scores

Team

| Place | Country | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | United States | 135-135-136-142=548 | −28 | 2,000 |
| 2 | South Africa | 138-138-139-138=553 | −23 | 1,000 |
| 3 | Taiwan | 135-138-143-138=554 | −22 | 800 |
| 4 | Australia | 135-141-137-143=556 | −20 | 400 |
| 5 | Japan | 135-146-136-144=561 | −15 | |
| 6 | Canada | 134-144-139-146=563 | −13 | |
| 7 | Argentina | 141-143-142-139=565 | −11 | |
| 8 | Belgium | 141-141-142-147=571 | −5 | |
| 9 | Spain | 149-140-138-145=572 | −4 | |
| 10 | England | 144-153-137-140=574 | −2 | |
| 11 | New Zealand | 144-152-139-141=576 | E | |
| 12 | Scotland | 143-146-143-146=578 | +2 | |
| 13 | Ireland | 144-146-143-148=581 | +5 | |
| 14 | Wales | 149-145-147-143=584 | +8 | |
| 15 | Hawaii | 147-146-144-148=585 | +9 | |
| 16 | Italy | 139-151-149-147=586 | +10 | |
| T17 | France | 142-148-145-153=588 | +12 | |
| T17 | Mexico | 146-146-146-150=588 | +12 | |
| 19 | Netherlands | 151-148-143-148=590 | +14 | |
| 20 | West Germany | 147-145-153-148=593 | +17 | |
| T21 | Colombia | 144-148-146-156=594 | +18 | |
| T21 | Philippines | 142-152-147-153=594 | +18 | |
| 23 | Chile | 140-155-150-151=596 | +20 | |
| 24 | South Korea | 150-149-150-150=599 | +23 | |
| 25 | Puerto Rico | 148-148-154-152=602 | +26 | |
| 26 | Switzerland | 149-151-156-150=606 | +30 | |
| 27 | Thailand | 149-152-154-152=607 | +31 | |
| 28 | Brazil | 154-155-159-145=613 | +37 | |
| 29 | Denmark | 151-149-153-163=616 | +40 | |
| 30 | Sweden | 148-157-151-163=619 | +43 | |
| 31 | Venezuela | 157-155-155-163=620 | +44 | |
| 32 | Peru | 149-161-165-154=629 | +53 | |
| T33 | Portugal | 155-162-156-161=634 | +58 | |
| T33 | Uruguay | 160-163-157-154=634 | +58 | |
| 35 | Austria | 165-174-163-160=662 | +86 | |
| 36 | Czechoslovakia | 159-163-177-169=668 | +92 | |

International Trophy

| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | George Knudson | Canada | 64-68-66-74=272 | −16 | 1,000 |
| 2 | Hideyo Sugimoto | Japan | 66-69-68-69=272 | −16 | 500 |
| T3 | Lu Liang-Huan | Taiwan | 67-68-73-65=273 | −15 | 300 |
| T3 | Jack Nicklaus | United States | 69-68-67-69=273 | −15 | 300 |
| 5 | Arnold Palmer | United States | 66-67-69-73=275 | −13 | |
| 6 | Harold Henning | South Africa | 69-67-70-70=276 | −12 | |
| T7 | Bob Charles | New Zealand | 69-76-64-68=277 | −11 | |
| T7 | Bruce Devlin | Australia | 69-71-67-70=277 | −11 | |
| T7 | Gary Player | South Africa | 69-71-69-68=277 | −11 | |
| 10 | Roberto De Vicenzo | Argentina | 69-69-73-67=278 | −10 | |

Knudson and Sugimoto contested a sudden-death playoff. Knudson won with a birdie 2 at the second extra hole.

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