# 2006 WGC-World Cup

The 2006 World Golf Championships-Barbados World Cup took place 7–10 December at the Sandy Lane Resort and Country Club in Barbados. It was the 52nd World Cup and the seventh and last as a World Golf Championship event. 24 countries competed and each country sent two players. The prize money totaled $4,000,000 with $1,400,000 going to the winning pair. The German team of Bernhard Langer and Marcel Siem won. They defeated the Scottish team of Colin Montgomerie and Marc Warren at the first playoff hole.

## Qualification and format

The leading 18 available players from different countries in the Official World Golf Ranking on 11 September 2006 qualified automatically. These 18 players then selected a player from their country to compete with them. The person they pick had to be ranked within the top 100 on the Official World Golf Ranking as of 11 September 11. If there was no other player from that country within the top 100, then the next highest ranked player would be their partner. World qualifiers were held in October 2006. Six countries earned their spot in this way, four from the Asian qualifier and two from the South American qualifier.
The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with each team consisting of two players. The first and third days are fourball play and the second and final days are foursomes play.

## Teams

| Country | Players |
| Argentina | Ángel Cabrera and Andrés Romero |
| Australia | Mark Hensby and John Senden |
| Barbados | Roger Beale and James Johnson |
| Canada | Jim Rutledge and Mike Weir |
| Colombia | Manuel Merizalde and Camilo Villegas |
| Denmark | Thomas Bjørn and Søren Hansen |
| England | Luke Donald and David Howell |
| France | Raphaël Jacquelin and Jean van de Velde |
| Germany | Bernhard Langer and Marcel Siem |
| Ireland | Pádraig Harrington and Paul McGinley |
| Italy | Emanuele Canonica and Francesco Molinari |
| Jamaica | Delroy Cambridge and Peter Horrobin |
| Japan | Tetsuji Hiratsuka and Hideto Tanihara |
| Mexico | José Octavio González and Esteban Toledo |
| Scotland | Colin Montgomerie and Marc Warren |
| Singapore | Lam Chih Bing and Mardan Mamat |
| South Africa | Rory Sabbatini and Richard Sterne |
| South Korea | Hur Suk-ho and Charlie Wi |
| Spain | Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño and Miguel Ángel Jiménez |
| Sweden | Carl Pettersson and Henrik Stenson |
| Switzerland | Martin Rominger and Nicolas Sulzer |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Robert Ames and Stephen Ames |
| United States | Stewart Cink and J. J. Henry |
| Wales | Stephen Dodd and Bradley Dredge |

## Scores

| Place | Country | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
| 1* | Germany | 65-69-68-66=268 | −16 | 1,400,000 |
| 2 | Scotland | 67-67-65-69=268 | −16 | 700,000 |
| 3 | Sweden | 64-70-63-72=269 | −15 | 400,000 |
| 4 | South Africa | 64-71-67-68=270 | −14 | 200,000 |
| T5 | Argentina | 64-67-67-73=271 | −13 | 126,667 |
| T5 | Spain | 69-66-67-69=271 | −13 | 126,667 |
| T5 | United States | 66-73-63-69=271 | −13 | 126,667 |
| T8 | Australia | 68-72-64-69=273 | −11 | 77,500 |
| T8 | Italy | 68-70-64-71=273 | −11 | 77,500 |
| T8 | Mexico | 69-68-65-71=273 | −11 | 77,500 |
| T8 | Wales | 65-75-62-71=273 | −11 | 77,500 |
| T12 | Ireland | 67-73-66-69=275 | −9 | 57,500 |
| T12 | Switzerland | 73-70-64-68=275 | −9 | 57,500 |
| 14 | Colombia | 67-74-66-70=277 | −7 | 50,000 |
| T15 | Canada | 69-72-66-71=278 | −6 | 48,500 |
| T15 | England | 66-70-70-72=278 | −6 | 48,500 |
| 17 | Singapore | 71-72-68-69=280 | −4 | 47,000 |
| 18 | Denmark | 70-70-71-70=281 | −3 | 46,000 |
| 19 | South Korea | 66-72-70-75=283 | −1 | 45,000 |
| 20 | France | 68-75-65-77=285 | +1 | 44,000 |
| T21 | Barbados | 69-76-71-72=288 | +4 | 42,500 |
| T21 | Trinidad and Tobago | 70-73-67-78=288 | +4 | 42,500 |
| 23 | Japan | 67-74-74-74=289 | +5 | 41,000 |
| 24 | Jamaica | 72-76-67-80=295 | +11 | 40,000 |
*Germany won with a par on the first playoff hole. Source