# 1971 World Cup (men's golf)

The 1971 World Cup took place November 11–14 at PGA National Golf Club (now BallenIsles Country Club, East Course) in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. It was the 19th World Cup event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 46 teams, which was a record high number of participants. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The United States team of Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino won by eight strokes over the South Africa team of Harold Henning and Gary Player. The individual competition was won by Nicklaus seven strokes ahead of Player. This was the 11th team victory for the United States in the history of the World Cup, founded in 1953 and until 1967 named the Canada Cup.

## Teams

| Country | Players |
| Argentina | Roberto De Vicenzo and Florentino Molina |
| Australia | Bruce Devlin and David Graham |
| Austria | Oswald Gartenmaier and Rudolf Hauser |
| Belgium | Donald Swaelens and Philippe Toussaint |
| Brazil | Mário Gonzalez and Luis Carlos Pinto |
| Canada | Wilf Homenuik and Moe Norman |
| Chile | Francisco Cerda and Rafael Jerez |
| Colombia | Rogelio Gonzales and Heraclio Valenzuela |
| Czechoslovakia | Jiri Dvorak (a) and Jan Kunšta (a) |
| Denmark | Herluf Hansen and Henrik Lund |
| Dominican Republic | Edwin Corrie (a) and Carlos Puebla (a) |
| Egypt | Cherif El-Sayed Cherif and Mohamed Said Moussa |
| England | Tony Jacklin and Peter Oosterhuis |
| France | Jean Garaïalde and Bernard Pascassio |
| Greece | John Sotiropoulos and Stefano Vafiadis (a) |
| Ireland | Hugh Jackson and Christy O'Connor Snr |
| Italy | Roberto Bernardini and Ettore Della Torre |
| Jamaica | Alvin Cunningham and Seymour Rose |
| Japan | Takaaki Kono and Haruo Yasuda |
| Libya | Muftah Salem and Hussein Abdulmullah |
| Mexico | Sixto Torres and Margarito Martinez |
| Morocco | Omar Ben El-Harcha and Benrokia Massaoud |
| Netherlands | Jan Dorrestein and Bertus Van Mook |
| New Zealand | Bob Charles and John Lister |
| Nigeria | Jamiu Oyebajo and Patrick Okpomu |
| Panama | Leo Dehlinger and Grover Matheney |
| Peru | Bernabé Fajardo and David Montoya |
| Philippines | Ben Arda and Eleuterio Nival |
| Portugal | Henrique Paulino and Joaquim Rodrigues |
| Puerto Rico | Chi-Chi Rodríguez and Manuel Camacho |
| Rhodesia | Leon Evans and Donald Gammon |
| Romania | Dumitru Muntanu (a) and Paul Tomita |
| Scotland | Bernard Gallacher and Ronnie Shade |
| Singapore | Phua Thin Kiay and Alvin Liau |
| South Africa | Harold Henning and Gary Player |
| South Korea | Hahn Sang-chan and Kim Seung-hack |
| Spain | Ángel Gallardo and Ramón Sota |
| Sweden | Åke Bergquist and Jonas Peil |
| Switzerland | Bernard Cordonier and Denis Maina |
| Taiwan | Lu Liang-Huan and Hsieh Min-Nan |
| Thailand | Prodana Ngarmprom and Sukree Onsham |
| United States | Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino |
| Uruguay | Carlos Cereda and Enrique Fernandez |
| Venezuela | Ramón Muñoz and Enrique Zurlta |
| Wales | Craig Defoy and Brian Huggett |
| West Germany | Roman Krause and Toni Kugelmuller |
(a) denotes amateur

## Scores

Team
| Place | Country | Score | To par | Money (US$) (per team) |
| 1 | United States | 143-138-134-140=555 | −21 | 2,000 |
| 2 | South Africa | 140-138-143-146=567 | −9 | 1,000 |
| 3 | New Zealand | 143-143-141-142=569 | −7 | 800 |
| 4 | Argentina | 145-145-141-144=575 | −1 | 200 |
| 5 | South Korea | 151-142-144-144=581 | +5 | |
| T6 | England | 144-142-147-149=582 | +6 | |
| T6 | Philippines | 150-143-146-143=582 | +6 | |
| 8 | Canada | 146-144-144-149=583 | +7 | |
| 9 | Wales | 147-148-149-141=585 | +9 | |
| 10 | Taiwan | 145-146-145-150=586 | +10 | |
| T11 | Australia | 150-142-144-151=587 | +11 | |
| T11 | Japan | 149-145-147-146=587 | +11 | |
| 13 | Spain | 149-148-147-148=592 | +16 | |
| 14 | Scotland | 147-144-150-154=595 | +19 | |
| 15 | Thailand | 150-148-150-150=598 | +22 | |
| 16 | Italy | 148-150-149-154=601 | +25 | |
| 17 | Colombia | 150-154-144-154=602 | +26 | |
| 18 | Netherlands | 150-148-150-156=604 | +28 | |
| 19 | Ireland | 155-147-158-147=607 | +31 | |
| 20 | France | 156-156-147-152=611 | +35 | |
| T21 | Mexico | 156-149-157-162=614 | +38 | |
| T21 | Puerto Rico | 151-155-159-149=614 | +38 | |
| T21 | Rhodesia | 151-153-156-154=614 | +38 | |
| T24 | Brazil | 160-150-155-152=617 | +41 | |
| T24 | West Germany | 154-149-156-158=617 | +41 | |
| 26 | Egypt | 157-159-152-154=622 | +46 | |
| 27 | Chile | 155-152-157-159=623 | +47 | |
| 28 | Belgium | 156-155-153-160=624 | +48 | |
| 29 | Denmark | 162-153-155-157=627 | +51 | |
| 30 | Panama | 163-157-155-157=632 | +56 | |
| 31 | Dominican Republic | 160-154-161-159=634 | +58 | |
| T32 | Austria | 156-162-167-160=645 | +69 | |
| T32 | Venezuela | 171-158-158-159=645 | +69 | |
| 34 | Portugal | 161-163-165-158=647 | +71 | |
| 35 | Sweden | 157-155-160-166=648 | +72 | |
| 36 | Uruguay | 172-159-160-159=650 | +74 | |
| T37 | Jamaica | 168-160-164-162=654 | +78 | |
| T37 | Peru | 167-162-163-162=654 | +78 | |
| 39 | Greece | 169-165-163-161=658 | +82 | |
| 40 | Morocco | 168-160-162-169=659 | +83 | |
| 41 | Switzerland | 167-160-166-169=662 | +86 | |
| 42 | Nigeria | 170-160-167-172=669 | +93 | |
| 43 | Libya | 171-169-167-170=677 | +101 | |
| 44 | Czechoslovakia | 173-166-177-171=687 | +111 | |
| 45 | Romania | 192-181-176-187=736 | +160 | |
| DQ | Singapore | DQ-166-178-172 | | |
The Singapore team was disqualified when Phua Thin Kiay could not play the first round due to tonsillitis. He played the remaining rounds and his teammate, Alvin Liau played all four rounds.
International Trophy
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
| 1 | Jack Nicklaus | United States | 68-69-63-71=271 | −17 | 1,000 |
| 2 | Gary Player | South Africa | 69-67-71-71=278 | −10 | 500 |
| 3 | Roberto De Vicenzo | Argentina | 69-70-71-71=281 | −7 | 400 |
| 4 | John Lister | New Zealand | 72-74-68-68=282 | −6 | 200 |
| 5 | Lee Trevino | United States | 75-69-71-69=284 | −4 | |
| T6 | Brian Huggett | Wales | 75-69-73-68=285 | −3 | |
| T6 | Lu Liang-Huan | Taiwan | 71-69-73-72=285 | −3 | |
| T8 | Bob Charles | New Zealand | 71-69-73-74=287 | −1 | |
| T8 | David Graham | Australia | 73-70-71-73=287 | −1 | |
| T10 | Harold Henning | South Africa | 71-71-72-75=289 | +1 | |
| T10 | Ronnie Shade | Scotland | 70-72-72-75=289 | +1 | |
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