# 1959 Canada Cup

The 1959 Canada Cup took place 18–21 November at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Melbourne, Australia. It was the seventh Canada Cup event, which became the World Cup in 1967. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 30 teams. These were the same teams that had competed in 1958 but without Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela and with the addition of Indonesia. Each team consisted of two players from a country. The combined score of each team determined the team results. The Australian team of Kel Nagle and Peter Thomson won by 10 strokes over the American team of Cary Middlecoff and Sam Snead. The individual competition was won by Canadian Stan Leonard, who beat Peter Thomson at the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.

## 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 Stan Leonard |
| Chile | Luciano Calderon and Enrique Orellana |
| China | Chen Ching-Po and Hsieh Yung-yo |
| Colombia | Pablo Molina and Miguel Sala |
| Denmark | Henning Kristensen and Carl Paulsen |
| Egypt | Cherif El-Sayed Cherif and Mohamed Said Moussa |
| England | Peter Alliss and Bernard Hunt |
| France | Roger Cotton and François Saubaber |
| Indonesia | Salim and Sjamsudin |
| Ireland | Harry Bradshaw and Christy O'Connor Snr |
| Italy | Alfonso Angelini and Ugo Grappasonni |
| Japan | Torakichi Nakamura and Haruyoshi Kobari |
| Mexico | Roberto De Vicenzo and Juan Neri |
| Netherlands | Gerard de Wit and Joop Rühl |
| New Zealand | Frank Buckler and John Kelly |
| Philippines | Vic Allin and Larry Montes |
| Portugal | Henrique Paulino and F De Silva Pina |
| Scotland | Eric Brown and John Panton |
| South Africa | Harold Henning and Gary Player |
| South Korea | Kim Hark Young and Park Myeong-chul |
| Spain | Ángel Miguel and Sebastián Miguel |
| Sweden | Åke Bergquist and Harry Karlsson |
| Switzerland | Jacky Bonvin and Otto Schoepfer |
| United States | Cary Middlecoff and Sam Snead |
| Wales | Dai Rees and Dave Thomas |
| West Germany | Friedrich Becker and Herbert Becker |
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## Scores

Team
| Place | Country | Score | To par |
| 1 | Australia | 137-139-144-143=563 | +3 |
| 2 | United States | 145-140-148-140=573 | +13 |
| 3 | Canada | 144-139-144-147=574 | +14 |
| 4 | South Africa | 144-147-142-147=580 | +20 |
| 5 | England | 150-145-146-147=588 | +28 |
| 6 | Wales | 144-143-154-149=590 | +30 |
| 7 | Scotland | 158-147-146-144=595 | +35 |
| 8 | China | 152-152-146-147=597 | +37 |
| T9 | Argentina | 151-153-150-147=601 | +41 |
| T9 | Spain | 152-145-147-157=601 | +41 |
| 11 | Belgium | 152-151-151-148=602 | +42 |
| 12 | Ireland | 150-148-151-154=603 | +43 |
| 13 | Japan | 147-148-148-162=605 | +45 |
| 14 | France | 155-150-150-153=608 | +48 |
| 15 | Italy | 151-152-154-152=609 | +49 |
| 16 | Brazil | 151-157-152-159=619 | +59 |
| T17 | Chile | 157-154-145-166=622 | +62 |
| T17 | Mexico | 154-149-160-159=622 | +62 |
| T17 | New Zealand | 154-155-153-160=622 | +62 |
| 20 | Colombia | 155-152-160-158=625 | +65 |
| 21 | Egypt | 160-157-157-157=631 | +71 |
| 22 | Sweden | 159-149-160-169=637 | +77 |
| 23 | Switzerland | 168-154-168-161=651 | +91 |
| T24 | Denmark | 165-156-164-167=652 | +92 |
| T24 | West Germany | 164-161-163-164=652 | +92 |
| 26 | Portugal | 166-161-161-166=654 | +94 |
| 27 | Philippines | 173-166-159-157=655 | +95 |
| 28 | Netherlands | 167-165-161-165=658 | +98 |
| 29 | South Korea | 166-162-162-172=662 | +102 |
| 30 | Indonesia | 185-181-179-181=726 | +166 |
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International Trophy
| Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
| 1 | Stan Leonard | Canada | 70-66-69-70=275 | −5 |
| 2 | Peter Thomson | Australia | 67-69-68-71=275 | −5 |
| 3 | Sam Snead | United States | 73-65-73-70=281 | +1 |
| 4 | Gary Player | South Africa | 72-72-71-69=284 | +4 |
| 5 | Kel Nagle | Australia | 70-70-76-72=288 | +8 |
| T6 | Eric Brown | Scotland | 78-72-75-67=292 | +12 |
| T6 | Chen Ching-Po | China | 76-73-71-72=292 | +12 |
| T6 | Cary Middlecoff | United States | 72-75-75-70=292 | +12 |
| T6 | Flory Van Donck | Belgium | 70-75-75-72=292 | +12 |
| 10 | Peter Alliss | England | 73-74-70-76=293 | +13 |
Leonard beat Thomson with a par 4 at the first hole of a sudden-death playoff.
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