1954 Canada Cup

1954 Canada Cup

Tournament information
Dates	August 20–22
Location	Laval, Quebec, Canada
Course(s)	Laval-sur-le-Lac Golf Club
Format	72 holes stroke play combined score
Statistics
Par	72
Field	25 two-man teams
Cut	None
Champion
Australia Kel Nagle & Peter Thomson
556 (−20)
Location map
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The 1954 Canada Cup took place August 20–22 at the Laval-sur-le-Lac Golf Club in Laval, Quebec, Canada. It was the second Canada Cup event, which became the World Cup in 1967. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 25 teams. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results.^[1] 18 holes were played on the first two days with 36 holes played on the final day. The Australian team of Kel Nagle and Peter Thomson won by four strokes over the Argentine team of Antonio Cerdá and Roberto De Vicenzo.^[2] Canadian Stan Leonard had the lowest individual score with 275, two strokes ahead of Peter Thomson.^[3]

Teams

Country	Players
Argentina	Antonio Cerdá and Roberto De Vicenzo
Australia	Kel Nagle and Peter Thomson
Belgium	Arthur Devulder and Flory Van Donck
Brazil	Mário Gonzalez and Ricardo Rossi
Canada	Jules Huot and Stan Leonard
Chile	Emilio Palacios and Luis Salas
Colombia	Pablo Molina and Raúl Posse
Egypt	Naaman Aly and Cherif El-Sayed Cherif
England	Peter Alliss and Harry Weetman
France	Jean Garaïalde and François Saubaber
Ireland	Harry Bradshaw and Fred Daly
Italy	Aldo Casera and Ugo Grappasonni
Japan	Michio Ishii and Torakichi Nakamura
Mexico	AI Escalante and Augustin Martinez
Netherlands	Joop Rühl and Piet Witte
New Zealand	Eddie Fennell and Ernie Southerden
Philippines	Larry Montes and Celestino Tugot
Scandinavia	Carl Paulsen and Arne Werkell
Scotland	Eric Brown and Tom Haliburton
South Africa	Bobby Locke and Bert Thomas
Spain	Carlos Celles and Sebastián Miguel
Switzerland	Robert Lanz and Otto Schoepfer
United States	Jimmy Demaret and Sam Snead
Wales	Harry Gould and Dai Rees
West Germany	Georg Bessner and Friedel Schmaderer

The Scandinavian team consisted of a Dane, Carl Paulsen, and a Swede, Arne Werkell.

Source^[4]

Scores

Place	Country	Score	To par
1	Australia	137-144-140-135=556	−20
2	Argentina	142-139-138-141=560	−16
3	United States	144-140-139-142=565	−11
4	Canada	141-143-143-143=570	−6
5	Scotland	144-140-138-149=571	−5
6	France	147-140-143-143=573	−3
7	England	143-143-144-144=574	−2
8	Brazil	144-144-141-146=575	−1
T9	Belgium	150-146-143-139=578	+2
	South Africa	145-146-146-141=578
T11	Ireland	143-148-139-149=579	+3
	Italy	147-149-146-137=579
13	Spain	144-144-148-150=586	+10
14	Japan	152-144-149-146=591	+15
15	Egypt	152-151-150-140=593	+17
16	West Germany	149-153-150-143=595	+19
T17	Philippines	148-149-150-151=598	+22
	Wales	151-151-150-146=598
T19	Chile	150-148-147-156=601	+25
	New Zealand	152-153-151-145=601
21	Scandinavia	148-151-158-152=609	+33
T22	Netherlands	157-147-155-151=610	+34
	Mexico	152-155-157-146=610
24	Switzerland	150-156-160-160=626	+50
WD	Colombia	149-WD[a]

1. Colombia withdrew after Raúl Posse became ill.

Source^[4][5][6][7]

The leading individual scores were 275 by Stan Leonard and 277 by Peter Thomson.^[3]

References

1. McAuley, Ed (August 20, 1954). "Snead, Daly have 63s Canada Cup warmup". The Montreal Gazette. p. 21.
2. McAuley, Ed (August 23, 1954). "Australians stage sub-par finish to capture Canada Cup". The Montreal Gazette. p. 21.
3. "Stan Leonard has 275 to lead field". The Montreal Gazette. August 23, 1954. p. 21.
4. "72-hole scores at Laval". The Montreal Gazette. August 23, 1954. p. 21.
5. "Canada Cup". Sunday Mail. Queensland, Australia. August 22, 1954. p. 24. Retrieved December 21, 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
6. "Australians share Canada golf lead". The Advocate. Tasmania, Australia. August 23, 1954. p. 6. Retrieved December 21, 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
7. "Thomson wants cup play here". The Courier-Mail. Queensland, Australia. AAP. August 24, 1954. p. 10. Retrieved December 21, 2016 – via National Library of Australia.

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