TheWomen's World Cup of Golf was a professionalgolf tournament contested by teams of two female golfers representing their respective countries.
The tournament was played in several incarnations, first in 1992 as theSunrise Cup World Team Championship held in Taiwan, and in 2000 atAdare Manor inIreland sanctioned only by theLadies European Tour.[1]
It was later played annually between 2005 and 2008 atGary Player Country Club inSouth Africa, and sanctioned also by theLPGA Tour, money unofficial on both tours.[2] The purse in the final year wasUS$1.4 million. The field consisted of twenty-two teams and each qualifying country could field one team. It was held in January or February, at the beginning of the season for the world's dominant professional tours.[3]
In 2014, theInternational Crown succeeded the event, a women's team golf tournament featuring national teams of four players.
| Year | Dates | Tour[a] | Country | Team | Runners-up | Third-place | Individual |
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| Women's World Cup of Golf | |||||||
| 2008 | Jan 18–20 |  Philippines | Jennifer Rosales &Dorothy Delasin |  Jiyai Shin &Eun-Hee Ji |  Miki Saiki &Shinobu Moromizato Amy Hung &Yun-Jye Wei | n/a | |
| 2007 | Jan 19–21 |  Paraguay | Julieta Granada &Celeste Troche |  Pat Hurst &Juli Inkster | Young Kim &Jiyai Shin | ||
| 2006 | Jan 20–22 |  Sweden | Annika Sörenstam &Liselotte Neumann |  Catriona Matthew &Janice Moodie |  Becky Brewerton &Becky Morgan | ||
| 2005 | Feb 11–13 | Japan | Ai Miyazato &Rui Kitada | Jang Jeong &Bo Bae SongJennifer Rosales &Dorothy Delasin | — | ||
| TSN Ladies World Cup Golf | |||||||
| 2000 | Sep 15–17 | LET | Sweden | Carin Koch &Sophie Gustafson |  Laura Davies &Trish Johnson |  Alison Munt &Jane Crafter | Laura Davies |
| Sunrise Cup World Team Championship | |||||||
| 1992 | Oct 16–18 | LET | Sweden | Liselotte Neumann &Helen Alfredsson | Trish Johnson &Laura Davies | Jane Geddes &Meg Mallon | Trish JohnsonLiselotte Neumann |
| Team | Champions | Runners-up | Third-place |
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| Philippines | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Japan | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Paraguay | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sweden | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| South Korea | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Scotland | 0 | 1 | 0 |
 United States | 0 | 1 | 0 |
 Taiwan | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Wales | 0 | 0 | 1 |
22 nation teams contested the event.[4][5]
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