1998 Eisenhower Trophy
# 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.

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

52 four-man teams contested the event.

The following table lists the players on the leading teams.

| 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

| 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 |
| T8 | Spain | 219-217-214-218=868 | +10 |
| 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 |
| T15 | India | 219-224-222-214=879 | +21 |
| 17 | Norway | 223-217-223-217=880 | +22 |
| T18 | Argentina | 217-228-224-213=882 | +24 |
| T18 | Brazil | 220-215-232-215=882 | +24 |
| T18 | Puerto Rico | 216-212-232-222=882 | +24 |
| T21 | Italy | 223-226-216-218=883 | +25 |
| T21 | New Zealand | 226-214-225-218=883 | +25 |
| 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 |
| T27 | Mexico | 229-225-216-223=893 | +35 |
| T29 | Malaysia | 225-226-224-221=896 | +38 |
| T29 | Philippines | 230-222-217-227=896 | +38 |
| 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 |
| T42 | Costa Rica | 240-236-234-235=945 | +87 |
| 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 |

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## Individual leaders

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 |
| T3 | Chan Yih-shin | Chinese Taipei | 71-69-72-68=280 | −6 |
| 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 |
| T7 | Tomohiro Kondo | Japan | 75-72-67-71=285 | −1 |
| T9 | Christian Aronsen | Norway | 74-70-76-66=286 | E |
| T9 | Kim Hyung-tae | South Korea | 72-72-70-72=286 | E |

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