Barbados set to host 2006 World Cup
The International Federation of PGA Tours has announced that the Caribbean Island of Barbados will host the 2006 World Golf Championships-World Cup. The Country Club Course at the Sandy Lane Resort in St. James, Barbados will serve as the host competitive venue for this global championship.
A total of 24 nations, including the host country, will participate in this prestigious event, which will be known as the World Golf Championships-Barbados World Cup, from Dec. 4-10, 2006, with a minimum purse of U.S. $4,000,000.
This will be the first time a World Golf Championships event, including the historic World Cup, has been played in Barbados, and only the third time it has been held in the Caribbean. Puerto Rico was the host of the 1961 and 1994 World Cups.
Sandy Lane's Country Club Course is one of three golf courses at the Sandy Lane Resort. Along with the recently opened Green Monkey and historic Old Nine Golf Club, the Tom Fazio-designed Sandy Lane Country Club is a 7,060-yard, par-72 layout that opened in 2001.
Barbados also has two other existing championship golf courses -- Royal Westmoreland designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. and the Barbados Golf Club designed by Ron Kirby -- as well as one additional nine-hole track at Rockley on the south coast. Two new championship courses will commence construction in 2006.
The World Cup of Golf became the fourth event of the World Golf Championships in 2000 when the International Federation of PGA Tours entered into an agreement with the International Golf Association, the organization which operated the World Cup beginning in 1953.
The United States has won a record 23 World Cups with David Duval and Tiger Woods winning at Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2000 when first the World Cup was played as a World Golf Championships event.
This year, the World Golf Championships-Algarve World Cup in Portugal was played at the Victoria Club de Golfe-Vilamoura in the Algarve region of Portugal. The team of Stephen Dodd and Bradley Dredge led Wales to its second title in the event.
The other World Golf Championships include the Accenture Match Play Championship, American Express Championship and Bridgestone Invitational. For more information, please visit
