# 1979 World Cup (men's golf)

The 1979 World Cup took place 8–11 November at the Glyfada Golf Club, 13 kilometres south of the city center of Athens, Greece, located in the Athens Riviera. It was the 27th World Cup event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 46 notified teams. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The South Africa team was invited to the event and their team of Hugh Baiocchi and Dale Hayes took part in practice and pro-am competition, but was informed by the Greece government shortly before the beginning of competition, they were not allowed to start. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The United States team of John Mahaffey and Hale Irwin won by ten strokes over the Scotland team of Ken Brown and Sandy Lyle.
The individual competition for the International Trophy was won by Irwin two strokes ahead of Bernhard Langer, West Germany and Lyle, Scotland.

## Teams

| Country | Players |
| Argentina | Jorge Soto and Adan Sowa |
| Australia | Colin Bishop and Ross Metherell |
| Austria | Oswald Gartenmaier and Rudolfo Hauser |
| Belgium | Philippe Toussaint and Flory Van Donck |
| Brazil | Jaime Gonzalez and Rafael Navarro |
| Burma | Maun Pyone and Ko Ko Lay |
| Canada | Dan Halldorson and Jim Nelford |
| Chile | Francisco Cerda and Patricio Valenzuela |
| Colombia | Luis Arevalo and Juan Pinzon |
| Denmark | Herluf Hansen and Jorgen Korfitsen |
| Dominican Republic | Jack Corrie and Guillermo Gomez |
| Egypt | Farouk Badr and Mohamed Said Moussa |
| England | Mark James and Michael King |
| Fiji | Aran Kumar and Bose Lutunatabua |
| France | Jean Garaïalde and Bernard Pascassio |
| Greece | Bassili Anastassiou (a) and Bassili Karatzas (a) |
| Guatemala | Roberto Galindo and Hilario Polo |
| Hong Kong | Lai Wai Che and Peter Tang |
| Indonesia | Engrun Tiahyana and Murat Satibi |
| Ireland | Eddie Polland and Des Smyth |
| Israel | Laurie Been (a) and Neil Schochet (a) |
| Italy | Baldovino Dassù and Delio Lovato |
| Japan | Kazuo Yoshikawa and Kaichi Inoue |
| Lebanon | Ziki Mukdad and Robert Prince |
| Malaysia | Marimuthu Ramayah and Nazamuddin Yusof |
| Mexico | Enrique Serna and Victor Regalado |
| Netherlands | Jan Dorrestein and Simon Van Den Berg |
| New Zealand | Craig Owen and Barry Vivian |
| Norway | Ole Hammer (a) and Johan Horn (a) |
| Philippines | Eleuterio Nival and Rudy Lavares |
| Portugal | Sebastiao Gil and Domingo Silva |
| Scotland | Ken Brown and Sandy Lyle |
| Singapore | Lim Swee Wah and Poh Eng Chong |
| South Korea | Cho Tae-ho and Choi Yoon-soo |
| Spain | Antonio Garrido and Manuel Piñero |
| Sweden | Sayed Cherif and Jan Sonnevi |
| Switzerland | Patrick Bagnoud and Mauric Salmini |
| Taiwan | Chen Tze-ming and Lu Hsi-chuen |
| Thailand | Sukree Onsham and Archin Sopon |
| United States | Hale Irwin and John Mahaffey |
| Venezuela | Noel Machado and Ramón Muñoz |
| Wales | Brian Huggett and David Vaughan |
| West Germany | Manfred Kessler and Bernhard Langer |
| Yugoslavia | Rafael Jerman (a) and Marko Vovk (a) |
(a) denotes amateur
Note: Sayed Cherif was representing Sweden, having played for Egypt in previous World Cup events.

## Scores

Team
| Place | Country | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
| 1 | United States | 141-141-152-141=575 | −1 | 6,000 |
| 2 | Scotland | 145-145-150-140=580 | +4 | 3,000 |
| 3 | Spain | 147-153-144-146=590 | +14 | |
| 4 | Brazil | 148-144-153-148=593 | +17 | |
| 5 | Taiwan | 144-149-146-155=594 | +18 | |
| 6 | Ireland | 150-153-148-146=597 | +21 | |
| T7 | Canada | 150-148-155-146=599 | +23 | |
| T7 | Japan | 147-150-151-151=599 | +23 | |
| T9 | England | 153-145-147-155=600 | +24 | |
| T9 | France | 151-150-150-149=600 | +24 | |
| T11 | Malaysia | 149-154-149-150=602 | +26 | |
| T11 | West Germany | 160-145-150-147=602 | +26 | |
| 13 | Mexico | 150-150-152-153=605 | +29 | |
| 14 | Colombia | 151-153-152-152=608 | +32 | |
| 15 | New Zealand | 156-155-150-149=610 | +34 | |
| 16 | Venezuela | 151-155-150-157=613 | +37 | |
| 17 | Belgium | 154-154-154-153=615 | +39 | |
| 18 | South Korea | 152-154-151-161=618 | +42 | |
| T19 | Philippines | 147-154-157-161=619 | +43 | |
| T19 | Wales | 150-157-155-157=619 | +43 | |
| 21 | Argentina | 160-158-148-155=621 | +45 | |
| 22 | Chile | 155-159-160-148=622 | +46 | |
| 23 | Greece | 159-160-154-153=626 | +50 | |
| 24 | Thailand | 165-158-154-151=628 | +52 | |
| T25 | Australia | 160-166-153-155=634 | +58 | |
| T25 | Sweden | 158-162-154-160=634 | +58 | |
| 27 | Denmark | 161-163-155-157=636 | +60 | |
| 28 | Austria | 166-155-155-161=637 | +61 | |
| 29 | Netherlands | 161-161-154-162=638 | +62 | |
| 30 | Egypt | 162-157-159-161=639 | +63 | |
| T31 | Guatemala | 162-162-154-162=640 | +64 | |
| T31 | Switzerland | 162-158-161-159=640 | +64 | |
| T33 | Hong Kong | 158-156-162-167=643 | +67 | |
| T33 | Singapore | 162-168-162-151=643 | +67 | |
| T35 | Dominican Republic | 160-156-166-164=646 | +70 | |
| T35 | Portugal | 159-164-156-167=646 | +70 | |
| 37 | Indonesia | 169-164-158-163=654 | +78 | |
| 38 | Lebanon | 172-157-158-168=655 | +79 | |
| 39 | Norway | 169-165-158-170=662 | +86 | |
| 40 | Fiji | 166-178-159-163=666 | +90 | |
| 41 | Burma | 167-168-170-163=668 | +92 | |
| 42 | Israel | 165-172-169-177=683 | +107 | |
| 43 | Paraguay | 170-174-183-175=702 | +126 | |
| 44 | Yugoslavia | 188-186-177-184=735 | +159 | |
| DQ | Italy | 158-143-148-DQ | | |
Dassù of Italy was disqualified after signing an incorrect scorecard.
International Trophy
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par | Money US$ |
| 1 | Hale Irwin | United States | 74-70-72-69=285 | −3 | 3,000 |
| T2 | Bernhard Langer | West Germany | 74-70-71-71=287 | −1 | |
| T2 | Sandy Lyle | Scotland | 72-73-73-69=287 | −1 | |
| 4 | Jaime Gonzalez | Brazil | 73-71-72-72=288 | E | |
| 5 | Antonio Garrido | Spain | 74-76-66-73=289 | +1 | |
| 6 | John Mahaffey | United States | 67-71-80-72=290 | +2 | |
| 7 | Ramón Muñoz | Venezuela | 72-78-70-72=292 | +4 | |
| T8 | Ken Brown | Scotland | 73-72-77-71=293 | +5 | |
| T8 | Lu Hsi-chuen | Taiwan | 71-73-72-77=293 | +5 | |
| T8 | Kazuo Yoshikawa | Japan | 71-74-73-75=293 | +5 | |
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