The 2013 ISPS Handa World Cup of Golf is a golf tournament that was played 21–24 November at
Royal Melbourne Golf Club in
Melbourne
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Australia
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. It was the 57th
World Cup. The format changed from being a team event to being primarily an individual event with a team component.
[ Sixty players from 34 countries competed in the individual tournament and 26 teams (two-player combined score) competed for the team prize. The total purse was US$8 million, $7 million for the individual competition and $1 million for the teams.][ ]Official World Golf Ranking
The Official World Golf Ranking is a system for rating the performance level of professional golfers. It was started in 1986.
The rankings are based on a player's position in individual tournaments (i.e. not pairs or team events) over a "rolli ...
points were award for the first time in the World Cup.[
Australia's Jason Day shot a final round 70 to win the individual tournament. Day teamed with Adam Scott to win the team prize.
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Qualification
The field was based on the Official World Golf Ranking on 23 September 2013. The top 15 players in the rankings were eligible with a limit of four players per country. After the top 15, players were eligible with a limit of two players per country until the field of 60 players was filled.2016 Summer Olympics
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, except that England, Scotland, and Wales fielded teams instead of a single Great Britain team in the Olympics.[
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Players
The table below lists the players together with their World Ranking at the time of the tournament.
Final leaderboards
Individual competition
Team competition
Notes and references
External links
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