2008 Eisenhower Trophy Explained

2008 Eisenhower Trophy
Dates:	16–19 October
Location:	Adelaide, Australia
Coordinates:	-34.9289°N 138.6011°W
Course:	Royal Adelaide Golf Club The Grange Golf Club (West course)
Format:	72 holes stroke play
Par:	73 (Royal Adelaide) 72 (Grange)
Field:	65 teams 192 players
Champion:	Callum Macaulay, Wallace Booth &<br>Gavin Dear
Score:	560 (−20)
Map:	Australia#Australia South Australia
Map Label:	Royal Adelaide GC
Map Relief:	yes
Map Size:	220
Previous:	2006
Next:	2010

The 2008 Eisenhower Trophy took place 16–19 October at Royal Adelaide Golf Club and on the West course at The Grange Golf Club in Adelaide, Australia. It was the 26th World Amateur Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy and the second to be held in Australia. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 65 three-man teams. The best two scores for each round counted towards the team total. Each team played two rounds on the two courses. The leading teams played at The Grange Golf Club on the third day and at Royal Adelaide Golf Club on the final day.

Scotland won their first Eisenhower Trophy, nine strokes ahead of the United States, who took the silver medal. Sweden took the bronze medal while France and Italy tied for fourth place. Rickie Fowler had the best 72-hole aggregate of 280, 10 under par.

The 2008 Espirito Santo Trophy was played at The Grange Golf Club one week prior.

Teams

65 teams contested the event. Each team had three played with the exception of Bolivia, Guatemala and Honduras who only has two.

The following table lists the players on the leading teams.^[1] ^[2]

Country	Players
	Julián Etulain, Jorge Fernández-Valdés, Emiliano Grillo
	Rohan Blizard, Matthew Griffin, Tim Stewart
	Xavier Feyaerts, Kevin Hesbois, Hugues Joannes
	Jordan Irwin, David Markle, Nick Taylor
	Lucas Bjerregaard, Morten Ørum Madsen, Rasmus Hjelm Nielsen
	Luke Goddard, Sam Hutsby, Dale Whitnell
	Victor Dubuisson, Benjamin Hébert, Alexandre Kaleka
	Saurabh Bahuguna, Rashid Khan, Gagan Verma
	Jonathan Caldwell, Paul Cutler, Shane Lowry
	Nino Bertasio, Federico Colombo, Andrea Pavan
	Hideki Matsuyama, Shunsuke Sonoda, Yuki Usami
	Floris de Vries, Richard Kind, Reinier Saxton
	James Gill, Danny Lee, Jared Pender
	Knut Børsheim, Anders Kristiansen, Espen Kofstad
	Wallace Booth, Gavin Dear, Callum Macaulay
	Jacques Blaauw, Dylan Frittelli, Cameron Johnston
	Kim Bi-o, Kim Woo-hyun, Song Tae-hoon
	Jorge Campillo, Borja Etchart, Pedro Oriol
	Jesper Kennegård, Henrik Norlander, Pontus Widegren
	Apichart Papituk, Chanat Sakulpolphaisan, Wasin Sripattranusorn
	Mustafa Hocaoğlu, Gencer Özcan, Hamza Hakan Sayin
	Rickie Fowler, Billy Horschel, Jamie Lovemark
	Nigel Edwards, Rhys Enoch, Ben Westgate

Results

Place	Country	Score	To par
		136-137-140-147=560	−20
		136-137-144-152=569	−11
		142-140-139-153=574	−6
align=center rowspan=2	T4		139-148-141-147=575	align=center rowspan=2	−5
	147-141-138-149=575
6		147-137-141-153=578	−2
align=center rowspan=2	T7		145-142-142-150=579	align=center rowspan=2	−1
	145-141-140-153=579
align=center rowspan=2	T9		151-135-146-148=580	align=center rowspan=2	E
	146-144-142-148=580
align=center rowspan=3	T11		143-138-142-158=581	align=center rowspan=3	+1
	141-146-144-150=581
	139-144-148-150=581
14		145-141-146-150=582	+2
15		145-146-146-147=584	+4
16		149-146-142-149=586	+6
align=center rowspan=2	T17		146-146-145-151=588	align=center rowspan=2	+8
	151-143-146-148=588
align=center rowspan=3	T19		148-147-146-148=589	align=center rowspan=3	+9
	146-143-144-156=589
	147-148-145-149=589
22		147-142-147-155=591	+11
align=center rowspan=3	T23		150-147-146-149=592	align=center rowspan=3	+12
	150-144-145-153=592
	137-156-152-147=592
26		145-152-147-149=593	+13
align=center rowspan=3	T27		148-151-150-146=595	align=center rowspan=3	+15
	150-142-148-155=595
	150-152-144-149=595
30		155-146-140-155=596	+16
align=center rowspan=2	T31		145-143-147-162=597	align=center rowspan=2	+17
	150-150-145-152=597
33		156-145-148-149=598	+18
34		144-160-149-149=602	+22
align=center rowspan=2	T35		148-151-153-151=603	align=center rowspan=2	+23
	153-144-154-152=603
37		144-155-151-155=605	+25
38		153-152-150-155=610	+30
39		151-154-152-154=611	+31
40		147-156-156-153=612	+32
41		147-160-154-152=613	+33
align=center rowspan=2	T42		158-150-154-152=614	align=center rowspan=2	+34
	161-152-153-148=614
align=center rowspan=2	T44		158-147-153-158=616	align=center rowspan=2	+36
	159-156-147-154=616
46		156-154-151-156=617	+37
47		150-153-154-161=618	+38
align=center rowspan=2	T48		157-154-151-161=623	align=center rowspan=2	+43
	159-152-156-156=623
50		153-164-151-156=624	+44
align=center rowspan=2	T51		160-155-151-160=626	align=center rowspan=2	+46
	161-154-157-154=626
53		160-154-150-163=627	+47
54		156-157-153-162=628	+48
55		161-159-155-170=645	+65
56		170-155-154-168=647	+67
57		158-156-162-173=649	+69
58		163-164-156-168=651	+71
59		161-157-166-175=659	+79
align=center rowspan=2	T60		167-166-164-166=663	align=center rowspan=2	+83
	159-163-161-180=663
62		168-172-170-166=676	+96
63		175-175-172-165=687	+107
64		196-185-183-194=758	+178
65		200-186-203-195=784	+204

Source:^[1]

Individual leaders

There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1			68-67-70-75=280	−10
align=center rowspan=2	T2			67-70-73-72=282	align=center rowspan=2	−8
		73-71-68-70=282
4			70-67-69-79=285	−5
5			70-72-75-70=287	−3
align=center rowspan=2	T6			73-70-71-74=288	align=center rowspan=2	−2
		73-70-68-77=288
align=center rowspan=2	T8			78-71-68-72=289	align=center rowspan=2	−1
		70-72-68-79=289
align=center rowspan=4	T10			75-68-76-71=290	align=center rowspan=4	E
		76-67-70-77=290
		71-71-72-76=290
		72-71-70-77=290

Source:^[1]

External links

Record Book on International Golf Federation website

Notes and References

Web site: Team/Player Leaderboard . Golfstat . 2 November 2018.
Web site: 2008 World Amateur Golf Team Championships Record Book . IGF . 2 November 2018 . 21 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190421224335/https://www.igfgolf.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2008IGFRecordBook.pdf . dead .