The rosters are complete, and with two weeks to go until the first tee goes in the ground at the inaugural World Champions Cup, excitement for the first-of-its-kind international team golf competition is heating up.
The rosters include:
Team International
- Ernie Els (Captain, South Africa)
- Stuart Appleby (Vice Captain, Australia)
- Vijay Singh (Fiji)
- Retief Goosen (South Africa)
- Steven Alker (New Zealand)
- Stephen Ames (Canada)
- K.J. Choi (Korea)
Team Europe
- Darren Clarke (Captain, Northern Ireland)
- Jesper Parnevik (Vice Captain, Sweden)
- Bernhard Langer (Germany)
- Colin Montgomerie (England)
- Miguel Angel Jiménez (Spain)
- Robert Karlsson (Sweden)
Team USA
- Jim Furyk (Captain)
- Billy Andrade (Vice Captain)
- Steve Stricker
- David Toms
- Jerry Kelly
- Justin Leonard
“I put a lot of time into trying to choose the two best guys for each team as my Chairman’s Selections, and of course, I had Ernie, Darren and Jim in my ear lobbying for certain guys to give them the best chance at winning,” said tournament chairman Peter Jacobsen.
Each of the three teams competing in the World Champions Cup will consist of six players, including a playing captain, and all will be active PGA Tour Champions members.
Automatic qualifiers were determined by the top point-earners in the World Champions Cup Historical Rankings, while Chairman’s Selections were determined by Jacobsen.
The World Champions Cup is set to make its debut December 7-10, 2023, at The Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida.
Inspired by the passion and tradition of the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, the World Champions Cup is officially sanctioned by PGA Tour Champions and is set to air on ABC and ESPN. The World Champions Cup will feature Team International, Team Europe and Team USA squaring off over three days of competition that will renew some of the game’s most storied rivalries as the teams battle for international pride and global bragging rights.
The World Champions Cup is an annual three-team, three-day competition that will be contested across nine-hole matches featuring team formats and singles play, with points being earned for each hole won in each of the event’s 24 matches. The team with the highest point total across all matches will be crowned the champion.
The Concession Golf Club was named the Best New Private Course in America by Golf Digest in 2006. The seed of what would become The Concession Golf Club was planted in 1969, with Jack Nicklaus’ famous gesture of conceding the final putt in the Ryder Cup to Tony Jacklin, clinching the first tie in the competition’s history. Decades later, the two golf legends paired up to design and create The Concession Golf Club — a championship, privately-owned golf facility with no houses lining the course. The course has hosted the PGA TOUR’s 2021 World Golf Championships-Workday Championship at The Concession, the 2015 Men’s and Women’s NCAA Division I championships and the biennial Concession Cup.
Tickets are now on sale at WorldChampionsCup.com. Champions Passes, which allow access to the grounds and the grandstand, start at $40 per day, with prices increasing the week before the tournament.
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