1994 Presidents Cup
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20 United States – 12 International
The 1st Presidents Cup
Matches were held in 1994 between September 16 and September 18. They were played at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia
, USA. The United States team won the competition by a margin of 20–12. The honorary chairman was former President of the United States Gerald R. Ford.
David Graham
Steve Elkington
Vijay Singh
Fulton Allem
David Frost
Nick Price
Bradley Hughes
Craig Parry
Robert Allenby
Frank Nobilo
Peter Senior
Tsukasa Watanabe
Mark McNulty
Captain: Hale Irwin
The 1st Presidents Cup
Presidents Cup
The Presidents Cup is a series of men's golf matches between a team representing the United States and an International Team representing the rest of the world less Europe. Europe competes against the U.S. in a similar but considerably older event, the Ryder Cup. The Presidents Cup is held biennially...
Matches were held in 1994 between September 16 and September 18. They were played at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia
Gainesville, Virginia
-Demographics:Gainesville is currently the third-largest CDP in Prince William County. As of the census estimate of 2009, there were 28,662 people, 10,300 households, and 8,604 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,150.2 people per square mile . There were 10,300 housing units...
, USA. The United States team won the competition by a margin of 20–12. The honorary chairman was former President of the United States Gerald R. Ford.
Format
The United States team had 12 players including a captain who participated in the event. The International team had 12 players plus a non-playing captain. On the first and second day four-ball was played in the morning and foursomes were played in the afternoon. On the third day only singles were played.Team International
Captain: David GrahamDavid Graham (golfer)
Anthony David Graham is a former professional golfer from Australia.Born in Windsor, Australia, Graham turned professional in 1962 at age 16 and spent much of his career in the United States, playing on the PGA Tour. Turning age 50 in 1996, he joined the Senior PGA Tour, later known as the...
Steve Elkington
Steve Elkington
Stephen John Elkington is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He spent over 50 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings from 1995 to 1998.-Early years and education:...
Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh, CF , nicknamed "The Big Fijian", is a Fijian professional golfer who was Number 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings for 32 weeks in 2004 and 2005. He has won three major championships and was the leading PGA Tour money winner in 2003, 2004 and 2008...
Fulton Allem
Fulton Allem
Fulton Peter Allem is a South African professional golfer.Allem was born in Kroonstad, Orange Free State, South Africa, the middle child of five children and the grandson of a Lebanese trader; he had a privileged upbringing...
David Frost
David Frost (golfer)
David Laurence Frost is a South African professional golfer who has more than twenty professional tournament wins to his name, spread across four continents....
Nick Price
Nick Price
Nicholas Raymond Leige Price is a South African-Zimbabwean Professional golfer and an inductee in the World Golf Hall of Fame. In the mid-1990s, Price reached number one in the Official World Golf Rankings.-Background:...
Bradley Hughes
Bradley Hughes (golfer)
Bradley Hughes is an Australian professional golfer.Hughes was born in Melbourne. He turned pro in 1988. He has played on the PGA Tour of Australasia , European Tour , Japan Golf Tour , PGA Tour and Nationwide Tours . He has won five times in Australia and once in the United States...
Craig Parry
Craig Parry
Craig David Parry is an Australian professional golfer. He has been one of Australia's premier golfers since turning professional in 1985, and has 23 career victories, two of those wins being events on the PGA Tour; the 2002 WGC-NEC Invitational and the 2004 Ford Championship at Doral.Parry was...
Robert Allenby
Robert Allenby
Robert Allenby is an Australian professional golfer.Allenby was born in Melbourne, Australia. His father was from Leeds, England and emigrated to Australia as a young man.-Professional career:...
Frank Nobilo
Frank Nobilo
Frank Ivan Joseph Nobilo, CNZM is a professional golfer from New Zealand.Nobilo had a successful playing career, winning 15 pro tournaments around the world...
Peter Senior
Peter Senior
Peter Albert Charles Senior is an Australian professional golfer who has won more than twenty tournaments around the world....
Tsukasa Watanabe
Tsukasa Watanabe
Tsukasa Watanabe is a Japanese professional golfer.Watanabe was born in Tokyo. He played on the Japan Golf Tour, winning twice, and earned over 750,000,000 ¥. He played on the 1994 International Team in the Presidents Cup.-Results in major championships:...
Mark McNulty
Mark McNulty
Mark William McNulty is an Irish/Zimbabwean professional golfer currently playing on the Champions Tour. He was one of the leading players on the European Tour from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s, and cracked the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for 83 weeks from 1987 to 1992.McNulty...
Team United States
Captain: Hale IrwinHale Irwin
Hale S. Irwin is an American professional golfer. He is one of the few players in history to have won three U.S. Opens and was one of the world's leading golfers for much of the 1970s and 1980s. He has also developed a career as a golf course architect.Irwin was born in Joplin, Missouri, but was...
- Fred CouplesFred CouplesFrederick Steven Couples is an American professional golfer who competes on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. A former World No. 1, he has won numerous events, most notably the 1992 Masters Tournament. In August 2011 he won his maiden senior major at the Senior Players Championship...
- Jim Gallagher, Jr.Jim Gallagher, Jr.James Thomas Gallagher, Jr. is an American professional golfer and sportscaster.Gallagher was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. His father, a career club pro, started him in golf at age 6. He attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Gallagher turned pro in 1983 and joined the PGA Tour in...
- Jay HaasJay HaasJay Dean Haas is an American professional golfer.Haas was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Belleville, Illinois. He attended Wake Forest University and was a member of the NCAA Championship team of the middle 1970s with Curtis Strange and Bob Byman that Golf World has called "the...
- Scott HochScott HochScott Mabon Hoch is an American golfer, who represented his country in the Ryder Cup in 1997 and 2002.Hoch was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was a member of the golf team at Wake Forest University before graduating in 1978. He also played on the winning U.S. team in the Eisenhower Trophy...
- John Huston
- Tom LehmanTom LehmanThomas Edward Lehman is an American professional golfer.Lehman was born in Austin, Minnesota, but Alexandria, Minnesota is credited as his official Minnesota hometown. He attended the University of Minnesota, graduating with a degree in Business/Accounting and turned professional in 1982. It took...
- Davis Love IIIDavis Love IIIDavis Milton Love III is an American professional golfer.Love was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina before turning professional in 1985. He earned his PGA Tour card in the fall of 1985, on his first attempt. He quickly established himself on the PGA...
- Jeff MaggertJeff MaggertJeffrey Allan Maggert is an American professional golfer.Maggert was born in Columbia, Missouri and was raised on a golf course in The Woodlands, Texas, where he attended McCullough High School. He attended Texas A&M University, where he was an All-American member of the golf team.Maggert turned...
- Phil MickelsonPhil MickelsonPhilip Alfred Mickelson is an American professional golfer. He has won four major championships and a total of 39 events on the PGA Tour. He has reached a career high world ranking of 2nd in multiple years. He is nicknamed "Lefty" for his left-handed swing, even though he is otherwise right-handed...
- Corey PavinCorey PavinCorey Allen Pavin is an American professional golfer on the PGA Tour. He spent over 150 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between 1986 and 1997.-Biography:...
- Loren RobertsLoren RobertsLoren Lloyd Roberts is an American professional golfer.-Early life:Roberts was born in San Luis Obispo, California. He competed for San Luis Obispo Senior High School and Cal Poly-SLO...
Morning four-ball
| International | Results | United States |
|---|---|---|
| Elkington/Singh | 2 and 1 | Pavin/Maggert |
| Allem/Frost | 6 and 5 | Haas/Hoch |
| Price/Hughes | 1 up | Love/Couples |
| Parry/Allenby | 4 and 2 | Huston/Gallagher, Jr. |
| Nobilo/Senior | 3 and 2 | Lehman/Mickelson |
| 0 | Four-Ball | 5 |
| 0 | Overall | 5 |
Afternoon foursomes
| International | Results | United States |
|---|---|---|
| Frost/Allem | 3 and 1 | Irwin/Roberts |
| Parry/Watanabe | 4 and 3 | Haas/Hoch |
| Nobilo/Allenby | 2 and 1 | Pavin/Maggert |
| Elkington/Singh | 2 and 1 | Mickelson/Lehman |
| Price/McNulty | halved | Love/Gallagher |
| 2 ½ | Foursomes | 2 ½ |
| 2 ½ | Overall | 7 ½ |
Morning four-ball
| International | Results | United States |
|---|---|---|
| Allem/McNulty | 4 and 3 | Gallagher/Huston |
| Watanabe/Singh | 3 and 1 | Haas/Hoch |
| Parry/Hughes | 4 and 3 | Roberts/Lehman |
| Nobilo/Allenby | 2 up | Couples/Love |
| Price/Elkington | halved | Mickelson/Pavin |
| 3 ½ | Four-Ball | 1 ½ |
| 6 | Overall | 9 |
Afternoon foursomes
| International | Results | United States |
|---|---|---|
| Frost/Senior | 6 and 5 | Irwin/Haas |
| Parry/Allem | 1 up | Pavin/Roberts |
| Singh/Elkington | 3 and 2 | Maggert/Huston |
| Nobilo/Allenby | 7 and 5 | Love/Gallagher |
| Hughes/McNulty | 3 and 2 | Mickelson/Lehman |
| 2 | Foursomes | 3 |
| 8 | Overall | 12 |
Singles
| International | Results | United States |
|---|---|---|
| Allenby | 1 up | Irwin |
| McNulty | 4 and 3 | Haas |
| Watanabe | 4 and 3 | Gallagher |
| Allem | halved | Mickelson |
| Singh | halved | Lehman |
| Senior | 3 and 2 | Huston |
| Frost | halved | Hoch |
| Hughes | 2 and 1 | Maggert |
| Nobilo | halved | Roberts |
| Price | 1 up | Couples |
| Elkington | 1 up | Love |
| Parry | 1 up | Pavin |
| 4 | Singles | 8 |
| 12 | Overall | 20 |
External links
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