The
draw for this year's Alfred Dunhill Cup on the Old Course was made on Wednesday.
The draw (prefix number denotes
seeding):
Group One: 1-United
States (Tom Lehman, Mark O'Meara, Payne Stewart), 8-Sweden (Gabriel Hjertstedt,
Jarmo Sandelin, Patrik Sjoland), New Zealand (Michael Campbell, Michael Long,
Greg Turner), Italy (Emanuele Canonica, Costantino Rocca, Massimo Scarpa).
Group Two: 4-Scotland (Paul Lawrie, Colin Montgomerie, Gary Orr), 5-Australia
(Stephen Leaney, Peter O'Malley, Craig Parry), Paraguay (Angel Franco, Carlos
Franco, Raul Fretes), Japan (Isao Aoki, Tsuyoshi Yoneyama, Katsuyoshi Tomori).
Group Three: 3-South Africa
(Ernie Els, David Frost, Retief Goosen), 6-England (David Howell, Mark James,
Lee Westwood), China (Cheng Jun, Wu Xiang-bing, Zhang Lian-wei), India (Vijay
Kumar, Jyoti Randhawa, Jeev Milkha Singh)
Group Four: 2-Spain (Sergio Garcia, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Jose Maria Olazabal),
7-Ireland (Darren Clarke, Padraig Harrington, Paul McGinley), France (Marc Farry,
Jean Francois Remesy, Jean Van de Velde), Zimbabwe (Tony Johnstone, Mark McNulty,
Nick Price).
Seeded teams
play the unseeded teams in their group on Thursday and Friday and meet the other
seeded team in their group on Saturday.
The Group One winners face the winners of Group two in one of Sunday morning's
semifinals. The winners of Groups Three and Four meet in the other. The final
is on Sunday afternoon.
Thursday's
matches:
Group One: U.S.v
New Zealand, Sweden v Italy
Group Two: Scotland v Paraguay, Australia v Japan
Group Three: South Africa v China, England v India
Group Four: Spain v France, Ireland v Zimbabwe
Individual matches for the medal-match play contests were being worked out later.
