Tournament information | |
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Dates | 17–20 November |
Location | Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal 37°4′40″N 8°6′55″W / 37.07778°N 8.11528°W |
Course(s) | Oceânico Golf (Victoria Course) |
Format | 72 holes stroke play (best ball & alternate shot) |
Statistics | |
Par | 72 |
Length | 7,174 yards (6,560 m) |
Field | 24 two-man teams |
Cut | None |
Prize fund | US$4.0 million |
Winner's share | US$1.4 million |
Champion | |
Wales Stephen Dodd & Bradley Dredge | |
189 (−27) | |
Location map | |
Oceânico Golf (Victoria Course) Location in Europe Oceânico Golf (Victoria Course) Location i Portugal | |
The 2005 WGC-World Cup took place 17–20 November at the Oceânico Golf on its Victoria Course in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal. It was the 51st World Cup and the sixth as a World Golf Championship event.
The course was designed by Arnold Palmer and opened in 2004, the year before it hosted the World Cup. Eleven years after this tournament, in 2016, Dom Pedro Golf acquired the Victoria Course and four other Vilamoura courses from Oceânico Golf.[1]
24 countries competed and each country sent two players. The prize money totaled $4,000,000 with $1,400,000 going to the winning pair. The Welsh team of Stephen Dodd and Bradley Dredge won. They won by two strokes over the English and Swedish teams after the event was shortened to 54 holes due to rain.[2][3]