# 1961 Canada Cup

The 1961 Canada Cup took place June 1–4 at Dorado Beach in Dorado, Puerto Rico. It was the ninth Canada Cup event, which became the World Cup in 1967. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 33 teams. These were the same teams that had competed in 1960 but without Central Africa and with the addition of Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The American team of Jimmy Demaret and Sam Snead won by 12 strokes over the Australian team of Kel Nagle and Peter Thomson. The individual competition was won by Sam Snead, with a tournament record score of 272, finishing eight shots ahead of Peter Thomson.

## Teams

| Country | Players |
| Argentina | Fidel de Luca and Leopoldo Ruiz |
| Australia | Kel Nagle and Peter Thomson |
| Belgium | Donald Swaelens and Flory Van Donck |
| Brazil | José Maria Gonzalez and Mário Gonzalez |
| Canada | Al Balding and Al Johnston |
| Chile | Anisio Araya and Enrique Orellana |
| China | Chen Ching-Po and Hsieh Yung-yo |
| Colombia | Alfonso Bohórquez and Miguel Sala |
| Denmark | Henning Kristensen and Carl Paulsen |
| Egypt | Cherif El-Sayed Cherif and Mohamed Said Moussa |
| England | Peter Alliss and Brian Bamford |
| France | Jean Garaïalde and François Saubaber |
| Ireland | Norman Drew and Christy O'Connor Snr |
| Italy | Alfonso Angelini and Carlo Grappasonni |
| Japan | Tadashi Kitsuta and Torakichi Nakamura |
| Mexico | Roberto De Vicenzo and Juan Antonio Estrada (a) |
| Netherlands | Cees Cramer and Gerard de Wit |
| New Zealand | Michael Busk and Ernie Southerden |
| Paraguay | Luis Boschian and Elcido Nari |
| Peru | Eugenio Dunezat and Wilfredo Uculmana |
| Philippines | Ben Arda and Celestino Tugot |
| Portugal | Henrique Paulino and Fernando Pina |
| Puerto Rico | Pete Cooper and Chi-Chi Rodríguez |
| Scotland | Eric Brown and John Panton |
| South Africa | Harold Henning and Retief Waltman |
| Spain | Sebastián Miguel and Ramón Sota |
| Sweden | Harry Karlsson and Arne Werkell |
| Switzerland | Jacky Bonvin and Otto Schoepfer |
| United States | Jimmy Demaret and Sam Snead |
| Uruguay | Juan Sereda and Pascual Viola |
| Venezuela | Francisco Gonzales and Teobaldo Perez |
| Wales | Dai Rees and Dave Thomas |
| West Germany | Hans Bessner and Willi Jersombeck |
(a) - denotes amateur
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The Canadian Stan Leonard, American Arnold Palmer and South African Gary Player withdrew from the event. The Canada Cup was played at the same time as the Memphis Open, an official event on the 1961 PGA Tour. Under a PGA Tour rule, the three, as winners of official PGA Tour events in the previous 12 months, were unable to play in non-tour events where they clashed with official events. The sponsors of the Memphis Open refused to allow the three to play in the Canada Cup with the result that the players withdrew from both events. They were replaced by Al Johnston, Jimmy Demaret and Harold Henning.

## Scores

Team
| Place | Country | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
| 1 | United States | 140-137-144-139=560 | −16 | 2,000 |
| 2 | Australia | 143-140-146-143=572 | −4 | 1,000 |
| 3 | Canada | 147-142-151-139=579 | +3 | 800 |
| 4 | Ireland | 147-151-144-140=582 | +6 | 400 |
| 5 | Philippines | 145-143-148-149=585 | +9 | |
| 6 | Wales | 144-149-154-140=587 | +11 | |
| 7 | Puerto Rico | 149-149-146-145=589 | +13 | |
| 8 | South Africa | 149-147-146-149=591 | +15 | |
| 9 | Argentina | 146-151-146-150=593 | +17 | |
| T10 | Belgium | 151-146-150-147=594 | +18 | |
| T10 | China | 147-148-148-151=594 | +18 | |
| T12 | Japan | 154-146-147-148=595 | +19 | |
| T12 | Scotland | 147-150-151-147=595 | +19 | |
| 14 | Mexico | 147-152-150-147=596 | +20 | |
| 15 | England | 148-153-149-149=599 | +23 | |
| T16 | Colombia | 146-157-153-145=601 | +25 | |
| T16 | Spain | 148-150-153-150=601 | +25 | |
| 18 | Egypt | 146-150-158-150=604 | +28 | |
| 19 | France | 151-154-148-152=605 | +29 | |
| 20 | Brazil | 149-155-156-150=610 | +34 | |
| 21 | Italy | 152-158-151-152=613 | +37 | |
| 22 | Venezuela | 155-151-160-153=619 | +43 | |
| 23 | New Zealand | 161-157-157-150=625 | +49 | |
| 24 | Netherlands | 156-155-156-161=628 | +52 | |
| 25 | Uruguay | 154-158-161-157=630 | +54 | |
| 26 | Sweden | 160-156-164-153=633 | +57 | |
| T27 | Chile | 165-160-153-156=634 | +58 | |
| T27 | Peru | 169-152-153-160=634 | +58 | |
| T27 | Switzerland | 158-155-162-159=634 | +58 | |
| 30 | West Germany | 156-162-160-164=642 | +66 | |
| 31 | Denmark | 162-159-164-158=643 | +67 | |
| 32 | Paraguay | 170-165-155-159=649 | +73 | |
| 33 | Portugal | 162-164-163-166=655 | +79 | |
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International Trophy
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
| 1 | Sam Snead | United States | 67-67-70-68=272 | −16 | 1,000 |
| 2 | Peter Thomson | Australia | 69-71-70-70=280 | −8 | 500 |
| 3 | Christy O'Connor Snr | Ireland | 73-72-68-69=282 | −6 | 400 |
| 4 | Al Balding | Canada | 69-70-75-69=283 | −5 | 200 |
| 5 | Ben Arda | Philippines | 69-69-72-76=286 | −2 | |
| T6 | Peter Alliss | England | 72-72-71-73=288 | E | |
| T6 | Jimmy Demaret | United States | 73-70-74-71=288 | E | |
| 8 | Chi-Chi Rodríguez | Puerto Rico | 74-73-72-71=290 | +2 | |
| T9 | Kel Nagle | Australia | 74-69-76-73=292 | +4 | |
| T9 | Dave Thomas | Wales | 71-76-77-68=292 | +4 | |
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