# 1954 Canada Cup

The 1954 Canada Cup took place August 20–22 at the Laval-sur-le-Lac Golf Club in Laval, Quebec, Canada. It was the second Canada Cup event, which became the World Cup in 1967. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 25 teams. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. 18 holes were played on the first two days with 36 holes played on the final day. The Australian team of Kel Nagle and Peter Thomson won by four strokes over the Argentine team of Antonio Cerdá and Roberto De Vicenzo. Canadian Stan Leonard had the lowest individual score with 275, two strokes ahead of Peter Thomson.

## Teams

| Country | Players |
| Argentina | Antonio Cerdá and Roberto De Vicenzo |
| Australia | Kel Nagle and Peter Thomson |
| Belgium | Arthur Devulder and Flory Van Donck |
| Brazil | Mário Gonzalez and Ricardo Rossi |
| Canada | Jules Huot and Stan Leonard |
| Chile | Emilio Palacios and Luis Salas |
| Colombia | Pablo Molina and Raúl Posse |
| Egypt | Naaman Aly and Cherif El-Sayed Cherif |
| England | Peter Alliss and Harry Weetman |
| France | Jean Garaïalde and François Saubaber |
| Ireland | Harry Bradshaw and Fred Daly |
| Italy | Aldo Casera and Ugo Grappasonni |
| Japan | Michio Ishii and Torakichi Nakamura |
| Mexico | AI Escalante and Augustin Martinez |
| Netherlands | Joop Rühl and Piet Witte |
| New Zealand | Eddie Fennell and Ernie Southerden |
| Philippines | Larry Montes and Celestino Tugot |
| Scandinavia | Carl Paulsen and Arne Werkell |
| Scotland | Eric Brown and Tom Haliburton |
| South Africa | Bobby Locke and Bert Thomas |
| Spain | Carlos Celles and Sebastián Miguel |
| Switzerland | Robert Lanz and Otto Schoepfer |
| United States | Jimmy Demaret and Sam Snead |
| Wales | Harry Gould and Dai Rees |
| West Germany | Georg Bessner and Friedel Schmaderer |
The Scandinavian team consisted of a Dane, Carl Paulsen, and a Swede, Arne Werkell.
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## Scores

| Place | Country | Score | To par |
| 1 | Australia | 137-144-140-135=556 | −20 |
| 2 | Argentina | 142-139-138-141=560 | −16 |
| 3 | United States | 144-140-139-142=565 | −11 |
| 4 | Canada | 141-143-143-143=570 | −6 |
| 5 | Scotland | 144-140-138-149=571 | −5 |
| 6 | France | 147-140-143-143=573 | −3 |
| 7 | England | 143-143-144-144=574 | −2 |
| 8 | Brazil | 144-144-141-146=575 | −1 |
| T9 | Belgium | 150-146-143-139=578 | +2 |
| T9 | South Africa | 145-146-146-141=578 | +2 |
| T11 | Ireland | 143-148-139-149=579 | +3 |
| T11 | Italy | 147-149-146-137=579 | +3 |
| 13 | Spain | 144-144-148-150=586 | +10 |
| 14 | Japan | 152-144-149-146=591 | +15 |
| 15 | Egypt | 152-151-150-140=593 | +17 |
| 16 | West Germany | 149-153-150-143=595 | +19 |
| T17 | Philippines | 148-149-150-151=598 | +22 |
| T17 | Wales | 151-151-150-146=598 | +22 |
| T19 | Chile | 150-148-147-156=601 | +25 |
| T19 | New Zealand | 152-153-151-145=601 | +25 |
| 21 | Scandinavia | 148-151-158-152=609 | +33 |
| T22 | Netherlands | 157-147-155-151=610 | +34 |
| T22 | Mexico | 152-155-157-146=610 | +34 |
| 24 | Switzerland | 150-156-160-160=626 | +50 |
| WD | Colombia | 149-WD | |
* ↑ Colombia withdrew after Raúl Posse became ill.
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The leading individual scores were 275 by Stan Leonard and 277 by Peter Thomson.