1978 Espirito Santo Trophy
Tournament information | |
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Dates | 10–13 October |
Location | Navua, Viti Levu, Fiji 18°14′38″S 178°04′08″E / 18.244°S 178.069°E |
Course(s) | Pacific Harbour Golf & Country Club |
Organized by | World Amateur Golf Council |
Format | 72 holes stroke play |
Statistics | |
Par | 72 |
Length | 5,823 yards (5,325 m) |
Field | 14 teams 42 players |
Champion | |
Australia Lindy Goggin, Edwina Kennedy, Jane Lock | |
596 (+20) | |
Location map | |
Pacific Harbour Golf & Country Club, Fiji Location in the Pacific Ocean | |
The 1978 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 10–13 October at Pacific Harbour Golf & Country Club in Navua, Viti Levu, Fiji. It was the eighth women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 14 team entries, each with three players. The best two scores for each round counted towards the team total.
The Australia team won the Trophy, winning their first title, beating team Canada by one stroke. Canada earned the silver medal and France took the bronze, five strokes further back.[1]
Teams
[edit]14 teams contested the event. Each team had three players.
Country | Players |
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Argentina | Amanda de Felicia, Susanna Garmendla, Beatriz Rossello |
Australia | Lindy Goggin, Edwina Kennedy, Jane Lock |
Canada | Marylin Palmer, Cathy Sherk, Stacey West |
Fiji | Anna Dunn, Lydia Manueli, Adi Sai Tuivanuavou |
France | Nathalie Jeanson, Catherine Lacoste de Prado, Marie-Laure de Lorenzi |
Great Britain & Ireland |
Mary Everard, Julia Greenhalgh, Muriel Thomson |
Italy | Minette Marazza, Guenda Moavero, Marina Ragher |
Japan | Haruko Ishii, Miki Oda, Machiko Yamada |
New Zealand | Liz Douglas, Cherry Kingham, Heather Ryan |
Spain | Marta Figueras-Dotti, Carmen Maestre de Pellon, Cristina Marsans |
Sweden | Kärstin Ehrnlund, Charlotte Montgomery, Liv Wollin |
Switzerland | Carole Charbonnier, Regine Lautens, Marie Christine de Werra |
United States | Beth Daniel, Cindy Hill, Judith Oliver |
West Germany | Barbara Böhm, Susanne Schultz, Marion Thannhauser |
Results
[edit]Place | Country | Score | To par |
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Australia | 149-143-151-153=596 | +20 | |
Canada | 147-149-153-148=597 | +21 | |
France | 146-153-156-147=602 | +26 | |
T4 | Great Britain & Ireland |
145-151-153-156=605 | +29 |
United States | 152-149-148-156=605 | ||
6 | Japan | 148-153-151-158=610 | +34 |
7 | New Zealand | 153-150-152-159=614* | +38 |
8 | Sweden | 149-153-148-166=616* | +40 |
9 | Spain | 156-159-156-154=625 | +49 |
10 | West Germany | 167-156-152-157=632 | +56 |
11 | Switzerland | 153-156-163-163=635 | +59 |
12 | Argentina | 160-151-160-169=640 | +64 |
13 | Italy | 157-160-163-164=644 | +68 |
14 | Fiji | 183-181-175-198=737 | +161 |
* Notes: After scoring 74 in the first round, Sweden's Kärstin Ehrnlund withdrew due to food poisoning and Sweden had to count both scores from the other two players during the remaining three rounds. New Zealand's Heater Ryan withdrew from the last round.
Sources:[1][2][3][4][5]
Individual leaders
[edit]There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.
Place | Player | Country | Score | To par |
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1 | Cathy Sherk | Canada | 72-74-76-72=294 | +6 |
T2 | Beth Daniel | United States | 75-71-74-78=298 | +10 |
Miki Oda | Japan | 74-73-77-74=298 | ||
Jane Lock | Australia | 73-72-75-78=298 | ||
5 | Marie-Laure de Lorenzi | France | 74-77-77-73=301 | +13 |
6 | Julia Greenhalgh | Great Britain & Ireland |
72-76-78-79=303 | +15 |
T7 | Edwina Kennedy | Australia | 76-71-78-79=304 | +16 |
Catherine Lacoste de Prado | France | 73-78-79-74=304 | ||
T9 | Mary Everard | Great Britain & Ireland |
73-77-75-80=305 | +17 |
Cherry Kingham | New Zealand | 75-74-74-82=305 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Record Book 1978 World Amateur Golf Team Championships" (PDF). World Amateur Golf Council. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
- ^ "World Amateur Team Championships – Women's Records". Retrieved 30 May 2013.
- ^ "Golf-VM genom åren, VM-resultat genom tiderna" [World Team Championship through the years]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 8. August 1988. pp. 168–170, 174–175. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ^ Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 180–181. ISBN 9172603283.
- ^ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 184. ISBN 91-86818007.