Trevor Immelman and Rory Sabbatini will renew their successful partnership when the World Golf Championships – World Cup is played at Real Club de Golf de Sevilla in Spain from 18-21 November.
The South Africans won by four strokes from England and by five from France over the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island in South Carolina last year. This time, Paul Casey returns to England duty hoping to go one better, joining forces with his former Walker Cup partner and now Ryder Cup team-mate, Luke Donald, in Seville.
European Ryder Cup player, Thomas Levet, again teams up with Raphaël Jacquelin while another pair of Ryder Cup heroes, Padraig Harrington and Paul McGinley of Ireland, attempt to repeat their World Cup victory in 1996.
Another prominent Ryder Cup pairing will be the Spanish entry of Sergio Garcia, who won four and a half points out of five at Oakland Hills last month, and Miguel Angel Jiménez, who has accumulated five titles on The European Tour International Schedule in 2004.
Teams:
The following are the 18 exempt nations listed alphabetically.
Argentina
(Angel Cabrera/Eduardo Romero)
Australia
(Stephen Leaney/Nick O’’Hern)
Austria
(Markus Brier/Martin Wiegele)
Denmark
(Anders Hansen/Soren Kjeldsen)
England
(Paul Casey/Luke Donald)
France
(Thomas Levet/Raphael Jacquelin)
Germany
(Marcel Siem/Kariem Baraka)
Holland
(Maarten Lafeber/Robert-Jan Derksen)
Ireland
(Padraig Harrington/Paul McGinley)
Japan
(Shigeki Mauryama/Hidemichi Tanaka)
New Zealand
(David Smail/Craig Perks)
Paraguay
(Carlos Franco/Marco Ruiz)
Scotland
(Scott Drummond/Alastair Forsyth)
Spain
(Sergio Garcia/Miguel Angel Jimenez)
South Africa
(Rory Sabbatini/Trevor Immelman)
Sweden
(Fredrick Jacobson/Joakim Haeggman)
United States
(Scott Verplank/Bob Tway)
Wales
(Phillip Price/Bradley Dredge)
The following three countries qualified at last week’’s Asian Nations Cup in
Malayasia:
Korea
(Shin Yong-Jin/Kim Dae-Sub)
Myanmar
(Kyi Hla Han/Soe Kyaw Naing)
Chinese Taipei
(Wang Ter Chang/Lu Wei
Chih)
The follwing three countires qualified at last week’’s Nations Cup in
Mexico:
Mexico
(Pablo del Olmo/Alejandro Quiroz)
Colombia
(Jose Garrido/Manuel Merizalde)
Italy
(Allesandro Tadini/Andrea Merstroni)
