The Women's World Cup of Golf was a professional golf tournament contested by teams of two female golfers representing their respective countries.
The tournament was played in several incarnations, first in 1992 as the Sunrise Cup World Team Championship held in Taiwan, and in 2000 at Adare Manor in Ireland sanctioned only by the Ladies European Tour.[1]
It was later played annually between 2005 and 2008 at Gary Player Country Club in South Africa, and sanctioned also by the LPGA Tour, money unofficial on both tours.[2] The purse in the final year was US$1.4 million. The field consisted of twenty-two teams and each qualifying country could field one team. It was held in January or February, at the beginning of the season for the world's dominant professional tours.[3]
In 2014, the International Crown succeeded the event, a women's team golf tournament featuring national teams of four players.
| Year | Dates | Tour | Country | Team | Runners-up | Third-place | Individual | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women's World Cup of Golf | ||||||||
| 2008 | Jan 18–20 | Jennifer Rosales & Dorothy Delasin |  Jiyai Shin & Eun-Hee Ji |  Miki Saiki & Shinobu MoromizatoAmy Hung & Yun-Jye Wei | n/a | |||
| 2007 | Jan 19–21 |  | Julieta Granada & Celeste Troche |  Pat Hurst & Juli Inkster | Young Kim & Jiyai Shin | |||
| 2006 | Jan 20–22 | Annika Sörenstam & Liselotte Neumann | Catriona Matthew & Janice Moodie | Becky Brewerton & Becky Morgan | ||||
| 2005 | Feb 11–13 | Ai Miyazato & Rui Kitada | — | |||||
| TSN Ladies World Cup Golf | ||||||||
| 2000 | Sep 15–17 | Carin Koch & Sophie Gustafson | Laura Davies & Trish Johnson |  Alison Munt & Jane Crafter | Laura Davies | |||
| Sunrise Cup World Team Championship | ||||||||
| Oct 16–18 | Trish Johnson Liselotte Neumann | |||||||
| Team | Champions | Runners-up | Third-place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 1 |
22 nation teams contested the event.[4] [5]
| Country | Players | + Participating teams 2006 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rachel Hetherington | |||
| Luciana Bemvenuti | |||
| A. J. Eathorne | |||
| Marisa Baena | |||
| Kirsty Taylor | |||
| Riikka Hakkarainen | |||
| Gwladys Nocera | |||
| Miriam Nagl | |||
| Silvia Cavalleri | |||
| Sakura Yokomine | |||
| Mary Karano | |||
| Meena Lee | |||
| Gina Scott | |||
| Ria Quiazon | |||
| Janice Moodie | |||
| Sally Little | |||
| Ashleigh Simon (a) | |||
| Marta Prieto | |||
| Liselotte Neumann | |||
| Yu Ping Lin | |||
| Natalie Gulbis | |||
| Becky Morgan | |||
| Country | Players | + Participating teams 2007 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lindsey Wright | |||
| Maria Priscila Iida | |||
| Karen-Margrethe Juul | |||
| Trish Johnson | |||
| Jenni Kuosa | |||
| Stephanie Arricau | |||
| Denise Simon | |||
| Hazel Kavanagh | |||
| Giulia Sergas | |||
| Momoko Ueda | |||
| Jane Njoroge (a) | |||
| Jiyai Shin | |||
| Elizabeth McKinnon | |||
| Marianne Skarpnord | |||
| Celeste Troche | |||
| Mhairi McKay | |||
| Laurette Maritz | |||
| Tania Elosegui | |||
| Carin Koch | |||
| Yu Ping Lin | |||
| Pat Hurst | |||
| Becky Morgan | |||
See main article: world cups.
See main article: world championships.