World Cup 2011

[deasy55]

Anyone care about this anymore? Some good teams playing this year.

I could only find the members of the 19 automatically exempt teams handy, so there's more than this playing.

Germany – Martin Kaymer and Alex Cejka
Ireland - Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell
United States – Matt Kuchar and Gary Woodland
South Africa – Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen
England – Ian Poulter and Justin Rose
Sweden – Robert Karlsson and Alex Noren
Italy – Francesco Molinari and Edoardo Molinari
Spain – Alvaro Quiros and Miguel Angel Jiménez
Scotland – Martin Laird and Stephen Gallacher
Denmark – Anders Hansen and Thomas Björn
France – Raphaël Jacquelin and Gregory Bourdy
Japan – Yuta Ikeda and Tetsuji Hiratsuka
Australia – Brendan Jones and Richard Green
Belgium – Nicolas Colsaerts and Jérôme Theunis
Colombia – Camilo Villegas and Manuel Villegas
Wales – Jamie Donaldson and Rhys Davies
Thailand – Thongchai Jaidee and Kiradech Aphibarnrat
Zimbabwe – Brendon de Jonge and Bruce McDonald
China (Host Nation) – Liang Wen-chong and Zhang Xin-jun

There's 3 teams of brothers playing... defending champions Italy, Colombia and Portugal.

http://worldcup.pgatour.com/

[jamo]

Kuchar and Woodland? That's who we've got?!? Ireland has the last two U.S. Open winner and the best guys we could get to play are Kuchar and Woodland? Geez. I would say the top teams are, Ireland, Spain, Germany, South Africa, England, and Italy. Maybe the US too. Also, I think the full list is here: http://worldcup.pgatour.com/team_profile.aspx

[makaveli]

I kinda like Sweden and Denmark too!

Ireland is the by far the strongest team even if I am not that convinced about G-Mac's game this year...

[Jmdmbike]

Kuchar and Woodland? That's who we've got?!? Ireland has the last two U.S. Open winner and the best guys we could get to play are Kuchar and Woodland? Geez. I would say the top teams are, Ireland, Spain, Germany, South Africa, England, and Italy. Maybe the US too. Also, I think the full list is here: http://worldcup.pgatour.com/team_profile.aspx

Man, we've (Canada) got nobody from what I'm seeing. Canada is a golf crazy country. Wonder why we're not involved. Hey, can we have Kuchar and Woodland if you guys (U.S.) don't want 'em? :-D

[Chilli Dipper]

Originally Posted by jamo

Kuchar and Woodland? That's who we've got?!? Ireland has the last two U.S. Open winner and the best guys we could get to play are Kuchar and Woodland? Geez.

I would say the top teams are, Ireland, Spain, Germany, South Africa, England, and Italy. Maybe the US too.

Also, I think the full list is here: http://worldcup.pgatour.com/team_profile.aspx

Considering that the last three American representatives to this event were John Merrick/Nick Watney, Ben Curtis/Brandt Snedeker, and Heath Slocum/Boo Weekley, Kuchar and Woodland are a vast improvement.

Certainly, some countries are not holding this tournament in the same regard as others. (I'm looking at you, South Korea, whose team had to go through sectional qualifying because none of the five Koreans ranked within the top 100 of the world rankings wanted to attend.)

[Kieran123]

Shouldn't it say Northern Ireland, not Ireland?

[deasy55]

Nope, it's Ireland in golf. Always has been.

Originally Posted by Kieran123

Shouldn't it say Northern Ireland, not Ireland?

[Kieran123]

I'm just joshing

[forza utreg]

Does anyone know if OWGR points can be gained here and if the prize money does count for the Race to dubai standings? Can't find the answers anywhere.

Ireland, Sweden and South Africa are my favorites to win it.

[deasy55]

^^

No world ranking points and the money doesn't count, as far as I'm aware.

[forza utreg]

thanks for the answer Deasy.

that's a shame. I was hoping that my man, Joost Luiten, could sneak in the top 50 of the OWGR that way. So he would be allowed to play all the big tournaments next year.

[Bigcats82]

Originally Posted by jamo

Kuchar and Woodland? That's who we've got?!? Ireland has the last two U.S. Open winner and the best guys we could get to play are Kuchar and Woodland? Geez.

I would say the top teams are, Ireland, Spain, Germany, South Africa, England, and Italy. Maybe the US too.

Also, I think the full list is here: http://worldcup.pgatour.com/team_profile.aspx

If you think Kuchar and Woodland is bad for the U.S., think about the Australian team.  They have guys like Jason Day, Aaron Baddeley, Adam Scott, John Senden, Geoff Ogilvy, and Robert Allenby.  Yet they have Richard Green and Brendan Jones representing them.

[jamo]

Kuchar and Woodland? That's who we've got?!? Ireland has the last two U.S. Open winner and the best guys we could get to play are Kuchar and Woodland? Geez.

For the record, I understand why and am not surprised by the fact that we only have Kuchar and Woodland playing.

[mcfc_nick]

more interested in the Australian PGA and im not that interested in that

[mcfc_nick]

p.s. but i'll take Spain

[Stretch]

Oosthuizen and Schwartzel won the Junior World Cup playing together in 2001. Would be rather cool to also bag the grown-up version 10 years later, although they'll have to finish better than they started today.

Speaking of Schwartzel -- that guy sure gets around!

[deasy55]

There will be arguments all over Northern Ireland after this picture was posted in all the major Irish newspapers today

[Stretch]

GMac: "Dat ass!"