Women's World Cup of Golf

The Women's World Cup of Golf was a professional golf tournament contested by teams of two female golfers representing their respective countries. The tournament was played in two incarnations, first in 2000 at Adare Manor Hotel & Golf Resort, County Limerick in Ireland sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour,^[1] and later annually between 2005 and 2008 in South Africa sanctioned also by the LPGA Tour, money unofficial on both tours.^[2] The purse in the final year was US$1.4 million. The field consisted of twenty-two teams and each qualifying country could field one team. It was held in January or February, at the beginning of the season for the world's dominant professional tour, the U.S. LPGA Tour, and of other major tours such as those in Japan and Europe.^[3]

Winners

Year	Dates	Country	Team	Runners-up	Third-place	Individual
2008	Jan 18–20	Philippines	Jennifer Rosales & Dorothy Delasin	Jiyai Shin & Eun-Hee Ji	Miki Saiki & Shinobu Moromizato Amy Hung & Yun-Jye Wei	n/a
2007	Jan 19–21	Paraguay	Julieta Granada & Celeste Troche	Pat Hurst & Juli Inkster	Young Kim & Jiyai Shin
2006	Jan 20–22	Sweden	Annika Sörenstam & Liselotte Neumann	Catriona Matthew & Janice Moodie	Becky Brewerton & Becky Morgan
2005	Feb 11–13	Japan	Ai Miyazato & Rui Kitada	Jang Jeong & Bo Bae Song Jennifer Rosales & Dorothy Delasin
TSN Ladies World Cup Golf
2000	Sep 15–17	Sweden	Carin Koch & Sophie Gustafson	Laura Davies & Trish Johnson	Alison Munt & Jane Crafter	Laura Davies

Performance by nation 2005–2008

Team	Champions	Runners-up	Third-place
Philippines	1	1	0
Japan	1	0	1
Paraguay	1	0	0
Sweden	1	0	0
South Korea	0	2	1
Scotland	0	1	0
United States	0	1	0
Taiwan	0	0	1
Wales	0	0	1

See also

• World Cup of Golf - the equivalent event for men's golf.

References

External links

• Official website
• TSN Ladies World Cup of Golf 2000 - Results, Golf Sweden, 17 September 2000
• LPGA official microsite