Eisenhower Trophy
The Eisenhower Trophy (World Men's Amateur Team Championships) is the biennial World Amateur Team Championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation. Since the tournament was first played in 1958, it is named after Dwight D. Eisenhower, the President of the United States at the time, who was a keen amateur golfer. From 2023, the field has been restricted to 36 teams, qualified through different criteria.
The equivalent competition for women is the Espirito Santo Trophy.
Results
The 1958 championship resulted in a tie. There was an 18-hole playoff which Australia won with a score of 222 to the United States 224.
From 1958 to 2000 the teams had four players with the best three scores counting for each round. From 2002 the teams have been three players with two counting. The 2004, 2010 and 2012 championships were reduced to 54 holes because of bad weather.
Players who have featured in a winning Eisenhower Trophy team and later became leading professional golfers include: Jack Nicklaus, Bruce Fleisher, Tom Kite, Lanny Wadkins, Ben Crenshaw, Curtis Strange, Scott Hoch, Hal Sutton, Michael Campbell, Tiger Woods, Ben Curtis, Luke Donald, Justin Thomas and Bryson DeChambeau.
Results summary
| Country | Win | 2nd | 3rd | Total | Competed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 16 | 9 | 3 | 27 | 33 |
| Australia | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 33 |
| Great Britain & Ireland |
4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 22 |
| Canada | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 32 |
| Sweden | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 32 |
| Japan | 1 | 3 | 4 | 33 | |
| New Zealand | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 33 |
| France | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 32 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 28 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1 | 2 | 27 | |
| Italy | 1 | 1 | 33 | ||
| Netherlands | 1 | 1 | 30 | ||
| Scotland | 1 | 1 | 10 | ||
| Spain | 1 | 3 | 4 | 32 | |
| England | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | |
| Mexico | 1 | 1 | 31 | ||
| Chinese Taipei | 3 | 3 | 31 | ||
| Philippines | 2 | 2 | 24 | ||
| Austria | 1 | 1 | 28 | ||
| Brazil | 1 | 1 | 32 | ||
| Germany | 1 | 1 | 33 | ||
| Ireland | 1 | 1 | 11 | ||
| South Korea | 1 | 1 | 27 | ||
| Totals | 34 | 35 | 36 | 104 | 33 |
There were joint silver medalists (and no bronze medalists) in 1982 and 1990. There were joint bronze medalists in 1992, 2002, 2012 (3) and 2016.
The "Great Britain and Ireland" team represented the two separate independent countries of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland from 1958 to 2000. From 2002, England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland (a combined Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland team) have competed as separate teams.
Source:[3]
Individual leader
| Year | Individual leader | Country | Score | To par | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | Bruce Devlin Bill Hyndman Reid Jack |
Australia United States Great Britain & Ireland |
81-73-74-73=301 79-77-73-72=301 72-77-74-78=301 |
+13 | Tie | |
| 1960 | Jack Nicklaus | United States | 66-67-68-68=269 | −11 | 13 strokes | Deane Beman |
| 1962 | Gary Cowan | Canada | 68-71-72-69=280 | E | 3 strokes | R. H. Sikes |
| 1964 | Hsieh Min-Nan | Chinese Taipei | 72-77-72-73=294 | +6 | 1 stroke | Raul Travieso |
| 1966 | Ronnie Shade | Great Britain & Ireland | 74-69-72-68=283 | −5 | 7 strokes | Patrick Cros |
| 1968 | Michael Bonallack Vinny Giles |
Great Britain & Ireland United States |
72-72-66-76=286 74-68-71-73=286 |
−6 | Tie | |
| 1970 | Victor Regalado | Mexico | 72-67-71-70=280 | −8 | 3 strokes | Dale Hayes |
| 1972 | Tony Gresham | Australia | 70-69-73-73=285 | +1 | 2 strokes | Ben Crenshaw Vinny Giles |
| 1974 | Jaime Gonzalez Jerry Pate |
Brazil United States |
73-74-74-73=294 73-77-73-71=294 |
+6 | Tie | |
| 1976 | Chen Tze-ming Ian Hutcheon |
Chinese Taipei Great Britain & Ireland |
75-69-73-76=293 73-73-76-71=293 |
+1 | Tie | |
| 1978 | Bobby Clampett | United States | 69-71-71-76=287 | −1 | 2 strokes | Doug Roxburgh |
| 1980 | Hal Sutton | United States | 68-69-71-68=276 | −12 | 6 strokes | Chen Tze-chung |
| 1982 | Luis Carbonetti | Argentina | 69-69-74-72=284 | −4 | 1 stroke | Jay Sigel |
| 1984 | Luis Carbonetti Tetsuo Sakata |
Argentina Japan |
68-74-70-74=286 68-72-74-72=286 |
−2 | Tie | |
| 1986 | Eduardo Herrera | Colombia | 75-67-68-65=275 | −5 | 2 strokes | Mark Brewer Jay Sigel |
| 1988 | Peter McEvoy | Great Britain & Ireland | 72-71-70-71=284 | −4 | 6 strokes | David Ecob |
| 1990 | Mathias Grönberg | Sweden | 70-67-77-72=286 | −2 | 6 strokes | Gabriel Hjertstedt |
| 1992 | Phil Tataurangi | New Zealand | 67-67-68-69=271 | −9 | 1 stroke | Michael Campbell |
| 1994 | Allen Doyle | United States | 68-70-69-70=277 | −10 | 4 strokes | & Warren Bennett |
| 1996 | Kalle Aitala | Finland | 67-68-72-69=276 | −12 | 2 strokes | Takahiro Nakagawa Brett Partridge Seo Jong-hyun |
| 1998 | Kim Felton | Australia | 70-67-69-69=275 | −11 | 2 strokes | Mikko Ilonen |
| 2000 | Bryce Molder | United States | 69-71-65-68=273 | −15 | 4 strokes | & Paul Casey |
| 2002 | Marcus Fraser | Australia | 74-70-67-70=281 | −7 | 1 stroke | Grégory Bourdy |
| 2004 | Ryan Moore | United States | 65-67-72=204 | −12 | 2 strokes | Spencer Levin |
| 2006 | Wil Besseling | Netherlands | 69-70-66-70=275 | −13 | 1 stroke | Julien Grillon Chris Kirk Richard Scott |
| 2008 | Rickie Fowler | United States | 68-67-70-75=280 | −10 | 2 strokes | Callum Macaulay Nick Taylor |
| 2010 | Joachim B. Hansen | Denmark | 67-69-73=209 | −6 | 3 strokes | Alexander Lévy |
| 2012 | Sebastián Vázquez | Mexico | 66-67-66=199 | −15 | 1 stroke | Chris Williams |
| 2014 | Jon Rahm | Spain | 70-64-62-67=263 | −23 | 3 strokes | Lucas Herbert Victor Perez Alejandro Tosti |
| 2016 | Cameron Davis | Australia | 67-66-68-68=269 | −17 | 2 strokes | Curtis Luck |
| 2018 | Alejandro del Rey | Spain | 70-64-68-65=267 | −23 | 1 stroke | Takumi Kanaya |
| 2022 | Tobias Jonsson | Sweden | 67-72-64-66=269 | −17 | 1 stroke | Taiga Semikawa |
| 2023 | Kazuma Kobori | New Zealand | 70-70-67-65=272 | −16 | 1 stroke | Nick Dunlap |
| 2025 | Christiaan Maas | South Africa | 66-66-65-69=266 | −22 | 10 strokes | Declan O'Donovan |
Future site
- 2027 Royal Golf Dar Es Salam, Morocco[4][5][6]
References
- ^ Williams, Julie (29 February 2020). "World Amateur Team Championships relocated from Hong Kong in wake of political protests". Golfweek.
- ^ Williams, Julie (6 May 2020). "IGF cancels World Amateur Team events for 2020; new women's Latin America event also off". Golfweek.
- ^ "World Amateur Team Championships – Men's Records". International Golf Federation. Archived from the original on 22 August 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ^ "Singapore To Host World Amateur Team Championships in 2025, Morocco to Host in 2027". USGA. 30 August 2022. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
- ^ "2025 World Amateur Team Championships". IGF. 2025. Retrieved 6 September 2025.
- ^ "World Amateur Team Championships Singapore 2025". Singapore Golf Association. 2025. Retrieved 6 September 2025.