The 1997 Dunhill Cup was the 13th
Dunhill Cup
The Alfred Dunhill Cup was a team golf tournament which ran from 1985 to 2000, sponsored by Alfred Dunhill Ltd. It was for three-man teams of professional golfers, one team representing each country, and was promoted as the "World Team Championshi ...
. It was a team tournament featuring 16 countries, each represented by three players. The Cup was played 16–19 October at the
Old Course at St Andrews
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It is a public course over common land in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland and is held in trust by the St Andrews Links Trust under ...
in
Scotland
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. The sponsor was the
Alfred Dunhill
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company. The South African team of
Ernie Els
Theodore Ernest Els (; born 17 October 1969) is a South African professional golfer. A former , he is known as "The Big Easy" due to his imposing physical stature (he stands ) along with his fluid golf swing. Among his more than 70 career victor ...
,
David Frost
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, and
Retief Goosen
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beat the Swedish team of
Joakim Haeggman
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Early life
Haeggman was born in Kalmar on the east coast of the province ...
,
Per-Ulrik Johansson
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Early life
Johansson grew up in Västervik in Småland, Sweden, and was a pro ...
, and
Jesper Parnevik
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in the final.
Format
The Cup was a
match play
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event played over four days. The teams were divided into four four-team groups. The top eight teams were seeded with the remaining teams randomly placed in the bracket. After three rounds of round-robin play, the top team in each group advanced to a single elimination playoff.
In each team match, the three players were paired with their opponents and played 18 holes at
medal match play
Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 h ...
. Matches tied at the end of 18 holes were extended to a sudden-death playoff. The tie-breaker for ties within a group was based on match record, then head-to-head.
Group play
Round one
Source:
[
Group 1
:O'Meara won on the first playoff hole.
Group 2
:Haeggman won on the first playoff hole.
:van de Velde won on the first playoff hole.
Group 3
Group 4
:Kang won on the first playoff hole.
]
Round two
Source:[
Group 1
Group 2
:Elkington won on the second playoff hole.
Group 3
:Goosen won on the second playoff hole.
Group 4
]
Round three
Source:[
Group 1
Group 2
:Johannsson won on the second playoff hole.
Group 3
:Goosen won on the first playoff hole.
Group 4
:Jiménez won on the second playoff hole.
]
Standings
Playoffs
Source:[
]
Bracket
Semi-finals
Final
Team results
Player results
References
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Alfred Dunhill Cup
Dunhill Cup
The Alfred Dunhill Cup was a team golf tournament which ran from 1985 to 2000, sponsored by Alfred Dunhill Ltd. It was for three-man teams of professional golfers, one team representing each country, and was promoted as the "World Team Championshi ...
Dunhill Cup
The Alfred Dunhill Cup was a team golf tournament which ran from 1985 to 2000, sponsored by Alfred Dunhill Ltd. It was for three-man teams of professional golfers, one team representing each country, and was promoted as the "World Team Championshi ...
Dunhill Cup
The Alfred Dunhill Cup was a team golf tournament which ran from 1985 to 2000, sponsored by Alfred Dunhill Ltd. It was for three-man teams of professional golfers, one team representing each country, and was promoted as the "World Team Championshi ...