# 1973 World Cup

The 1973 World Cup took place 22–25 November at the Club de Golf Nueva Andalucía in Marbella, Spain. The name of the club was later changed to Real Club de Golf Las Brisas. It was the 21st World Cup event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 49 teams. Each team consisted of two players from a country.
Team Czechoslovakia of Jiri Dvorak and Jaromir Fuchs were notified but withdrew from the tournament before it began. Also before the tournament began, notable player withdrawals were Peter Thomson, selected to the Australian team, replaced by Errol Hardvigsen, Peter Oosterhuis, selected to the English team, replaced by Peter Wilcock, Terry Kendall, selected to the New Zealand team, replaced by Simon Owen and Brian Huggett, selected to the Welsh team, replaced by David Vaughan.
The combined score of each team determined the team's results. The United States team of Johnny Miller and Jack Nicklaus won by six strokes over the South Africa team of Hugh Baiocchi and Gary Player. This was the 12th team victory for the United States, six of them with Jack Nicklaus on the team, in the event, formerly named Canada Cup, since its inception in 1953.
The individual competition for the International Trophy, was won by Miller, three strokes ahead of Player.

## Teams

This list of players is incomplete
| Country | Players |
| Argentina | Fidel de Luca and Roberto De Vicenzo |
| Australia | Errol Hardvigsen and Randall Vines |
| Austria | Oswald Gartenmaier and Rudolph Hauser |
| Belgium | Donald Swaelens and Philippe Toussaint |
| Brazil | Luis Carlos Pinto and Humberto Rocha |
| Canada | Phil Giroux and Bob Panasik |
| Chile | Francisco Cerda and Rafael Jerez |
| Colombia | Alfonso Bohórquez and Heraclio Valenzuela |
| Denmark | Herluf Hansen and Henrik Lund |
| Dominican Republic | Arturo Pellerano and Carlos M. Puebla |
| Egypt | Mahmound Abedunahab and Mohamed Said Moussa |
| England | Peter Butler and Peter Wilcock |
| Finland | Juhani Hämäläinen and Harry Safonoff |
| France | Jean Garaïalde and Bernard Pascassio |
| Greece | George Guinis and George Sotiropoulos |
| Guatemala | Roberto Galindo and Hilario Polo |
| Hong Kong | |
| Indonesia | |
| Ireland | Jimmy Kinsella and Eddie Polland |
| Italy | Roberto Bernardini and Alberto Croce |
| Jamaica | Basil Campbell and Seymour Rose |
| Japan | Isao Aoki and Tōru Nakamura |
| Libya | Muftah Salem and Mohammed Salah Ziaani |
| Malaysia | Zainal Abidin Yusof and Jalal Deran |
| Mexico | Ramón Cruz and Victor Regalado |
| Morocco | Ben Rokya Ahmed Messoud and Fatmi Moussa |
| Netherlands | Jan Dorrestein and Bertus Van Mook |
| New Zealand | Dennis Clark and Simon Owen |
| Nigeria | Patrick Okpomu and Paul Osanebi |
| Norway | Westye Hoegh (a) and Johan Horn (a) |
| Peru | Bernabé Fajardo and David Montoya |
| Philippines | Ireneo Legaspi and Eleuterio Nival |
| Portugal | Fernando Rina and Joaquin Rodriques |
| Puerto Rico | David Jimenez and Jesús Rodríguez |
| Romania | Muntanu Dumitru and Paul Tomita |
| Scotland | David Huish and David Ingram |
| Singapore | Lim Kian Tiong and Lim Swee Chew |
| South Africa | Hugh Baiocchi and Gary Player |
| South Korea | Cho Tae-ho and Kim Seung-hack |
| Spain | Valentín Barrios and Angel Gallardo |
| Sweden | Bo Johansson and Jan Rosell |
| Switzerland | Bernard Cordonier and Ronald Tingley |
| Taiwan | Lu Liang-Huan and Hsieh Min-Nan |
| Thailand | Prandana Ngarmprom and Sukree Onsham |
| United States | Johnny Miller and Jack Nicklaus |
| Uruguay | Juan Dapiaggi and Carlos Sereda |
| Venezuela | Ramón Muñoz and Julián Santana |
| Wales | Craig Defoy and David Vaughan |
| West Germany | Gerhard Koenig and Toni Kugelmueller |
(a) denotes amateur

## Scores

Team
| Place | Country | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
| 1 | United States | 142-133-145-138=558 | −18 | 2,000 |
| 2 | South Africa | 140-144-139-141=564 | −12 | 1,000 |
| 3 | Taiwan | 138-145-142-143=568 | −8 | 800 |
| T4 | Argentina | 137-143-152-150=582 | +6 | 200 |
| T4 | Spain | 142-146-149-145=582 | +6 | 200 |
| 6 | Japan | 143-144-154-142=583 | +7 | |
| T7 | Australia | 147-150-144-145=586 | +10 | |
| T7 | New Zealand | 151-149-144-142=586 | +10 | |
| 9 | Ireland | 147-147-148-146=588 | +12 | |
| 10 | Philippines | 151-149-146-146=592 | +16 | |
| T11 | England | 152-145-149-147=593 | +17 | |
| T11 | Thailand | 140-149-152-152=593 | +17 | |
| T13 | Belgium | 146-156-149-145=596 | +20 | |
| T13 | France | 153-146-148-149=596 | +20 | |
| 15 | Italy | 152-152-149-145=598 | +22 | |
| 16 | Wales | 151-147-150-152=600 | +24 | |
| T17 | Netherlands | 149-152-152-148=601 | +25 | |
| T17 | Puerto Rico | 152-141-157-151=601 | +25 | |
| 19 | Scotland | 148-148-149-157=602 | +26 | |
| 20 | South Korea | 156-144-155-148=603 | +27 | |
| 21 | Venezuela | 156-157-149-146=608 | +32 | |
| 22 | Austria | 156- - -151 =609 | +33 | |
| T23 | Chile | 150- - -158=610 | +34 | |
| T23 | Mexico | 154- - -149=610 | +34 | |
| T23 | Sweden | 153-144-157-156=610 | +34 | |
| 26 | Colombia | 154- - -149=611 | +35 | |
| 27 | Canada | 159- - -150=612 | +36 | |
| 28 | Singapore | 163-145-149-162=619 | +43 | |
| 29 | Jamaica | 151- - -157=622 | +46 | |
| 30 | Norway | 157-161-156-153=627 | +51 | |
| 31 | West Germany | 154- - -162=629 | +53 | |
| 32 | Brazil | 162- - - =631 | +55 | |
| 33 | Switzerland | 159- - -160=633 | +57 | |
| 34 | Guatemala | 159- - - =635 | +59 | |
| 35 | Portugal | 164- - -158=638 | +62 | |
| 36 | Egypt | 155- - -166=639 | +63 | |
| 37 | Dominican Republic | 167- - -157 =640 | +64 | |
| 38 | Morocco | 157- - - =642 | +66 | |
| 39 | Indonesia | 162-157-161-166=646 | +70 | |
| T40 | Hong Kong | 162-159-162-165=648 | +72 | |
| T40 | Peru | 172- - - =648 | +72 | |
| T42 | Denmark | 168-162-161-161=652 | +76 | |
| T42 | Finland | 163-169-159-161=652 | +76 | |
| 44 | Nigeria | 161- - - =654 | +78 | |
| 45 | Greece | 164- - - =657 | +81 | |
| 46 | Malaysia | 166-160-166-166=658 | +82 | |
| 47 | Uruguay | 163- - - =659 | +83 | |
| 48 | Libya | 179- - - =708 | +132 | |
| 49 | Romania | 185- - - =728 | +152 | |
International Trophy
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
| 1 | Johnny Miller | United States | 73-65-72-67=277 | −11 | 1,000 |
| 2 | Gary Player | South Africa | 69-72-70-69=280 | −8 | 500 |
| T3 | Jack Nicklaus | United States | 69-68-73-71=281 | −7 | 300 |
| T3 | Lu Liang-Huan | Taiwan | 67-69-74-71=281 | −7 | 300 |
| T5 | Hugh Baiocchi | South Africa | 71-72-69-72=284 | −4 | |
| T5 | Randall Vines | Australia | 72-74-69-69=284 | −4 | |
| 7 | Eddie Polland | Ireland | 71-74-70-70=285 | −3 | |
| T8 | Isao Aoki | Japan | 70-71-76-70=287 | −1 | |
| T8 | Valentín Barrios | Spain | 69-70-75-73=287 | −1 | |
| T8 | Hsieh Min-Nan | Taiwan | 71-76-68-72=287 | −1 | |
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