Tournament information | |
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Dates | 16–18 October |
Location | Taipei, Taiwan |
Course(s) | Sunrise G&CC |
Format | 54 holes stroke play combined score |
Statistics | |
Par | 72 |
Field | 16 two-man teams |
Cut | None |
Prize fund | US$500,000 |
Champion | |
Sweden Liselotte Neumann & Helen Alfredsson | |
445 (+13) | |
The Sunrise Cup World Team Championship was a professional golf tournament contested by teams of two female golfers representing their respective countries. The tournament was played at the Sunrise Golf & Country Club in Taiwan. [1]
The field consisted of sixteen teams and each qualifying country could field one team. It was only held in October 1992 and was included on the Ladies European Tour schedule as an unofficial team event. It had a purse of $500,000. [2]
Typhoon Yvette impacted play with extremely strong winds and delays. [3]
Year | Country | Team | Runners-up | Third-place | Individual | |
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Sunrise Cup World Team Championship | ||||||
1992 | Sweden | Liselotte Neumann & Helen Alfredsson | Trish Johnson & Laura Davies | Jane Geddes & Meg Mallon | Trish Johnson Liselotte Neumann |
Team
Place | Country | Players | Score | To par | |
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1 | Sweden | Liselotte Neumann | Helen Alfredsson | 219+226=445 | +13 |
2 | England | Trish Johnson | Laura Davies | 219+228=447 | +15 |
3 | United States | Jane Geddes | Meg Mallon | 222+231=453 | +21 |
4 | Switzerland | Evelyn Orley | Régine Lautens | 221+233=454 | +22 |
T5 | Canada | Dawn Coe-Jones | Lisa Walters | 228+231=459 | +27 |
Australia | Jan Stephenson | Corinne Dibnah | 223+236=459 | ||
7 | Wales | Karen Davies | Helen Wadsworth | 232+232=464 | +32 |
8 | Peru | Jenny Lidback | Alicia Dibos | 231+234=465 | +33 |
9 | France | Marie-Laure de Lorenzi | Sandrine Mendiburu | 227+243=470 | +38 |
10 | Japan | Yuka Irie | Yuri Kawanami | 232+242=474 | +42 |
Individual Trophy
Place | Player | Country | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
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T1 | Trish Johnson | England | 71-72-76=219 | +3 | 20,000 |
Liselotte Neumann | Sweden | 71-70-78=219 | 20,000 | ||
3 | Evelyn Orley | Switzerland | 74-74-73=221 | +5 | 10,000 |
T4 | Marta Figueras-Dotti | Spain | 72-73-77=222 | +6 | |
Jane Geddes | United States | 74-72-76=222 | |||
6 | Helen Alfredsson | Sweden | 75-76-75=226 | +7 |
Source: [3]
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