Daimler & Chrysler Cup - The Annual North American-Europe Golf Challenge in Japan

BASIC FACTS 2008

Date: Friday 26 September

Tee-off: 8:30 (shotgun start)

Venue: Atsugi Kokusai C.C.

Number of players:

North America 72

Europe 72

Participation fee:
24,000 yen all included

Registration:
by Fri. 19 September

Play format:
New Peoria (shin-peria)

Team Competition:
Best 80 % in each team
counts as the team score

Organizers:

ACCJ

European Business
Council

Title Sponsors:
Daimler Japan, Ltd.
Chrysler Japan Co., Ltd.

Hosting provided by:

Team North America takes the 6th Daimler & Chrysler Cup!

Team North America took the 6th Daimler & Chrysler Cup with a fairly convincing margin, 74.62 versus Team Europe's 75.48 for the net stroke average of the best 80% in each team.
This was the fourth win for North America, Europe has two wins.

The team captains, North America's Neil Moody (left) and Europe's Joachim Hinne (right) with EBC's Erik Ullner and the trophy.

The event was played in fine weather and 131 players participated in the event, 66 for Team North America, 65 for Team Europe.

In the individual competition the Swedish Chamber (SCCJ) took a clean sweep. Eiji Takagi was best net with a score of 68.0 while Finn Havaleschka and Anders Sjöstedt shared the best gross with 72 strokes, one over par on the Atsugi Kokusai C.C. in Kanagawa Prefecture.

For more about the event go to the Report page, or check the Results page or view a lot of images in the Gallery.

NEW
To be able to further develope and improve the event we have conducted a participants survey. To find out about the results of the survey, please go to the Survey Report page.