# 1977 World Cup (men's golf)

The 1977 World Cup took place December 8–11 at the Wack Wack Golf and Country Club in Manila, Philippines. It was the 25th World Cup event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 50 teams. The Mexico team of Ernesto Perez Acosta and Victor Regalado did not arrive on time to start and were replaced by a Filipino amateur team of Tommy Manotoc and Emilio Tuazon. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The Spanish team of Seve Ballesteros and Antonio Garrido successfully defended the title Spain won in 1976 and won by two strokes over the Philippines team of Ben Arda and Rudy Lavares. The individual competition for The International Trophy, was won by Gary Player of South Africa, three strokes ahead of Lavares and Hubert Green, United States.

## Teams

| Country | Players |
| Argentina | Juan Carlos Cabrera and Juan Carlos Molina |
| Australia | Mike Cahill and David Good |
| Austria | Oswald Gartenmaier and Rudolph Hauser |
| Belgium | Michael Eaton and Philippe Toussaint |
| Brazil | Luis Carlos Pinto and Laurenco Evangelista |
| Burma | Mya Aye and Maung Shein |
| Canada | Dave Barr and George Knudson |
| Chile | Francisco Cerda and Natalio Morales |
| Colombia | Eduardo Martinez and Juan Pinzon |
| Czechoslovakia | Jiri Dvorak and Jan Kunsta |
| Denmark | Per Greve and Herluf Hansen |
| Egypt | Mohamed Abdel Halim and Mohamed Said Moussa |
| England | Peter Dawson and Nick Faldo |
| Fiji | Bose Lutunatabua and Veramu Rokotavaga |
| France | Patrick Cotton and Jean Garaïalde |
| Greece | Basilli Anastassiou (a) and Basilli Karatzas (a) |
| Guatemala | Roberto Galindo and Hilario Polo |
| Hong Kong | Lai Wai Che and Peter Tang |
| Iceland | Ragnar Olafsson (a) and Björgvin Thorsteinsson (a) |
| Indonesia | Azis Narwi and Sumarno (a) |
| Ireland | Eamonn Darcy and Eddie Polland |
| Israel | Laurie Been (a) and Barry Mandel (a) |
| Italy | Silvano Locatelli and Delio Lovato |
| Japan | Seiichi Kanai and Kosaku Shimada |
| Libya | Muftah Salem and Mohamed Salah Ziany |
| Malaysia | Lim Yat Foong and V. Nellan |
| Morocco | Mohamed Makroune and Ahmed Messaoud |
| Nepal | Bishnu Shahi and Ghanashyam Thapa |
| Netherlands | Jan Dorrestein and Martien Groenendaal |
| New Zealand | Dennis Clark and Richard Coombes |
| Nigeria | Peter Akakasiaka and Ahmadu Baba |
| Pakistan | Mohammad Ejaz and Taimur Hassan |
| Philippines | Ben Arda and Rudy Lavares |
| Philippines | Tommy Manotoc (a) and Emilio Tuazon (a) |
| Portugal | Domingos Silva and Joachim Rodrigues |
| Puerto Rico | Manuel Camacho and Jesús Rodríguez |
| Scotland | Brian Barnes and Ken Brown |
| Singapore | Lim Swee Wah and Lim Kian Tiong |
| South Africa | Hugh Baiocchi and Gary Player |
| South Korea | Han Chang-sang and Kim Seung-hack |
| Spain | Seve Ballesteros and Antonio Garrido |
| Sweden | Hans Hedjerson and Jan Sonnevi |
| Switzerland | Dennis Maina and Franco Salmina |
| Taiwan | Kuo Chie-Hsiung and Hsieh Min-Nan |
| Thailand | Uthai Dhappavibul and Nares Navin |
| United States | Hubert Green and Lanny Wadkins |
| Venezuela | Francisco Gonzales and Ramón Muñoz |
| Wales | Craig Defoy and David Vaughan |
| West Germany | Wolfgang Jersombeck and Bernhard Langer |
| Yugoslavia | Rafael Jerman (a) and Mirko Vovk (a) |
(a) denotes amateur
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## Scores

Team
| Place | Country | Score | To par | Money (US$) |
| 1 | Spain | 144-154-142-151=591 | +15 | 2,000 |
| 2 | Philippines | 149-142-156-147=594 | +18 | 1,000 |
| 3 | Canada | 139-147-157-152=595 | +19 | 800 |
| T4 | Japan | 151-148-146-152=597 | +21 | 400 |
| T4 | South Africa | 149-141-154-153=597 | +21 | 400 |
| T6 | Ireland | 149-141-154-153=597 | +22 | |
| T6 | Taiwan | 151-151-147-149=598 | +22 | |
| 8 | United States | 143-153-155-150=601 | +25 | |
| 9 | South Korea | 144-155-152-152=603 | +27 | |
| 10 | Egypt | 145-151-158-154=608 | +32 | |
| 11 | Malaysia | 150-153-158-149=610 | +34 | |
| 12 | Italy | 148-151-150-162=611 | +35 | |
| T13 | Australia | 159-148-155-150=612 | +36 | |
| T13 | New Zealand | 151-147-154-160=612 | +36 | |
| T15 | Brazil | 154-147-159-155=615 | +39 | |
| T15 | Colombia | 155-151-155-154=615 | +39 | |
| T15 | Thailand | 150-153-156-156=615 | +39 | |
| 18 | Scotland | 151-153-164-151=619 | +43 | |
| 19 | Burma | 158-156-152-154=620 | +44 | |
| T20 | England | 152-153-155-161=621 | +45 | |
| T20 | Wales | 153-152-164-152=621 | +45 | |
| 22 | Puerto Rico | 155-154-158-158=625 | +49 | |
| T23 | Hong Kong | 153-160-153-163=629 | +53 | |
| T23 | Sweden | 159-153-153-164=629 | +53 | |
| 25 | Belgium | 159-152-163-158=632 | +56 | |
| 26 | Denmark | 153-161-165-154=633 | +57 | |
| T27 | Argentina | 154-164-161-155=634 | +58 | |
| T27 | Singapore | 165-158-153-158=634 | +58 | |
| T29 | Pakistan | 154-165-157-161=637 | +61 | |
| T29 | Philippines (a) | 164-161-158-154=637 | +61 | |
| 31 | Venezuela | 156-169-155-160=640 | +64 | |
| 32 | France | 167-166-154-156=643 | +67 | |
| 33 | Indonesia | 160-155-162-167=644 | +68 | |
| 34 | West Germany | 162-160-163-160=645 | +69 | |
| 35 | Chile | 162-165-157-163=647 | +71 | |
| 36 | Austria | 167-164-158-161=650 | +74 | |
| T37 | Guatemala | 159-160-165-167=651 | +75 | |
| T37 | Morocco | 163-165-163-160=651 | +75 | |
| 39 | Fiji | 162-156-170-165=653 | +77 | |
| 40 | Switzerland | 159-176-162-159=656 | +80 | |
| 41 | Netherlands | 163-172-160-162=657 | +81 | |
| 42 | Greece | 168-163-168-161=660 | +84 | |
| 43 | Portugal | 166-167-172-167=672 | +96 | |
| 44 | Iceland | 160-177-171-167=675 | +99 | |
| 45 | Israel | 164-164-184-170=682 | +106 | |
| 46 | Nigeria | 177-169-172-167=685 | +109 | |
| 47 | Czechoslovakia | 176-171-173-172=692 | +116 | |
| 48 | Libya | 183-180-173-168=704 | +128 | |
| 49 | Nepal | 172-184-184-189=729 | +153 | |
| 50 | Yugoslavia | 180-190-184-178=732 | +156 | |
International Trophy
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par | Money US$ |
| 1 | Gary Player | South Africa | 72-68-73-76=289 | +1 | 1,000 |
| T2 | Hubert Green | United States | 69-72-77-74=292 | +4 | 450 |
| T2 | Rudy Lavares | Philippines | 73-69-77-73=292 | +4 | 450 |
| 4 | Seiichi Kanai | Japan | 75-73-73-72=293 | +5 | 200 |
| 5 | George Knudson | Canada | 69-72-78-75=294 | +6 | |
| T6 | Seve Ballesteros | Spain | 73-77-69-76=295 | +7 | |
| T6 | Kuo Chie-Hsiung | Taiwan | 73-75-72-75=295 | +7 | |
| 8 | Antonio Garrido | Spain | 71-77-73-75=296 | +8 | |
| 9 | Eddie Polland | Ireland | 78-76-74-70=298 | +10 | |
| 10 | Mya Aye | Burma | 76-72-75-76=299 | +11 | |
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