# 2008 Eisenhower Trophy

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

## Results

| Place | Country | Score | To par |
| | Scotland | 136-137-140-147=560 | −20 |
| | United States | 136-137-144-152=569 | −11 |
| | Sweden | 142-140-139-153=574 | −6 |
| T4 | France | 139-148-141-147=575 | −5 |
| T4 | Italy | 147-141-138-149=575 | −5 |
| 6 | Australia | 147-137-141-153=578 | −2 |
| T7 | Netherlands | 145-142-142-150=579 | −1 |
| T7 | Spain | 145-141-140-153=579 | −1 |
| T9 | Argentina | 151-135-146-148=580 | E |
| T9 | Canada | 146-144-142-148=580 | E |
| T11 | New Zealand | 143-138-142-158=581 | +1 |
| T11 | South Africa | 141-146-144-150=581 | +1 |
| T11 | Wales | 139-144-148-150=581 | +1 |
| 14 | England | 145-141-146-150=582 | +2 |
| 15 | South Korea | 145-146-146-147=584 | +4 |
| 16 | Belgium | 149-146-142-149=586 | +6 |
| T17 | India | 146-146-145-151=588 | +8 |
| T17 | Norway | 151-143-146-148=588 | +8 |
| T19 | Denmark | 148-147-146-148=589 | +9 |
| T19 | Japan | 146-143-144-156=589 | +9 |
| T19 | Turkey | 147-148-145-149=589 | +9 |
| 22 | Ireland | 147-142-147-155=591 | +11 |
| T23 | Chile | 150-147-146-149=592 | +12 |
| T23 | Germany | 150-144-145-153=592 | +12 |
| T23 | Puerto Rico | 137-156-152-147=592 | +12 |
| 26 | Singapore | 145-152-147-149=593 | +13 |
| T27 | Austria | 148-151-150-146=595 | +15 |
| T27 | Iceland | 150-142-148-155=595 | +15 |
| T27 | Philippines | 150-152-144-149=595 | +15 |
| 30 | Peru | 155-146-140-155=596 | +16 |
| T31 | Chinese Taipei | 145-143-147-162=597 | +17 |
| T31 | Portugal | 150-150-145-152=597 | +17 |
| 33 | Mexico | 156-145-148-149=598 | +18 |
| 34 | Colombia | 144-160-149-149=602 | +22 |
| T35 | Brazil | 148-151-153-151=603 | +23 |
| T35 | Finland | 153-144-154-152=603 | +23 |
| 37 | Costa Rica | 144-155-151-155=605 | +25 |
| 38 | China | 153-152-150-155=610 | +30 |
| 39 | Czech Republic | 151-154-152-154=611 | +31 |
| 40 | Estonia | 147-156-156-153=612 | +32 |
| 41 | Uruguay | 147-160-154-152=613 | +33 |
| T42 | Greece | 158-150-154-152=614 | +34 |
| T42 | Thailand | 161-152-153-148=614 | +34 |
| T44 | Slovakia | 158-147-153-158=616 | +36 |
| T44 | Zimbabwe | 159-156-147-154=616 | +36 |
| 46 | Guatemala | 156-154-151-156=617 | +37 |
| 47 | Pakistan | 150-153-154-161=618 | +38 |
| T48 | Fiji | 157-154-151-161=623 | +43 |
| T48 | Malaysia | 159-152-156-156=623 | +43 |
| 50 | United Arab Emirates | 153-164-151-156=624 | +44 |
| T51 | Bermuda | 160-155-151-160=626 | +46 |
| T51 | Bolivia | 161-154-157-154=626 | +46 |
| 53 | Hong Kong | 160-154-150-163=627 | +47 |
| 54 | Latvia | 156-157-153-162=628 | +48 |
| 55 | Saudi Arabia | 161-159-155-170=645 | +65 |
| 56 | Egypt | 170-155-154-168=647 | +67 |
| 57 | Honduras | 158-156-162-173=649 | +69 |
| 58 | Russia | 163-164-156-168=651 | +71 |
| 59 | Eswatini | 161-157-166-175=659 | +79 |
| T60 | Cook Islands | 167-166-164-166=663 | +83 |
| T60 | Croatia | 159-163-161-180=663 | +83 |
| 62 | Mauritius | 168-172-170-166=676 | +96 |
| 63 | Qatar | 175-175-172-165=687 | +107 |
| 64 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 196-185-183-194=758 | +178 |
| 65 | Gabon | 200-186-203-195=784 | +204 |
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## Individual leaders

There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
| 1 | Rickie Fowler | United States | 68-67-70-75=280 | −10 |
| T2 | Callum Macaulay | Scotland | 67-70-73-72=282 | −8 |
| T2 | Nick Taylor | Canada | 73-71-68-70=282 | −8 |
| 4 | Wallace Booth | Scotland | 70-67-69-79=285 | −5 |
| 5 | Sam Hutsby | England | 70-72-75-70=287 | −3 |
| T6 | Nicolás Geyger | Chile | 73-70-71-74=288 | −2 |
| T6 | Pedro Oriol | Spain | 73-70-68-77=288 | −2 |
| T8 | Federico Colombo | Italy | 78-71-68-72=289 | −1 |
| T8 | Jesper Kennegård | Sweden | 70-72-68-79=289 | −1 |
| T10 | Julián Etulain | Argentina | 75-68-76-71=290 | E |
| T10 | Jorge Fernández-Valdés | Argentina | 76-67-70-77=290 | E |
| T10 | Dylan Frittelli | South Africa | 71-71-72-76=290 | E |
| T10 | Matthew Griffin | Australia | 72-71-70-77=290 | E |
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