The 2009 Grey Power World Cup of Curling was held October 21–25 at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga, Ontario.
The 2009 World Cup was the first Grand Slam event of the 2009-10 curling season. It was the first Grand Slam to be held in the Greater Toronto Area.
This event is normally known as the Masters of Curling, but in 2009 it was changed to the World Cup of Curling . The 2009 event had a majority of its teams from outside of Canada. The event featured one team from every country that sent a team to the men's Olympic event, except Canada, which had five teams (the four teams that had already qualified for the 2009 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials plus defending Olympic champions, team Brad Gushue.
The total purse of the event was $100,000, with the Howard rink winning $24,000 of that.
For the third event in a row, Howard faced off against Koe in the final. Howard defended his previous three titles by winning his fourth straight event, and his eighth Grand Slam title. Koe has yet to win a title, having now lost six Grand Slam finals.
Three Nations Cup In addition to the World Cup, which is a men's event, a women's "Three Nations Cup" was held. This small event featured teams Shannon Kleibrink and Stefanie Lawton of Canada as well as Wang Bingyu of China and Eve Muirhead of Great Britain. Many of the top women's teams however could not participate, as they were playing in the 2009 Manitoba Lotteries Women's Curling Classic. The event was a round robin event, which was won by Great Britain's Eve Muirhead.
TeamWLPFPA Muirhead 3 1 25 14 Lawton 2 2 23 23 Wang 2 2 20 25 Kleibrink 1 3 20 36
World Cup teams SkipThirdSecondLeadHome cityThomas Dufour Tony Angiboust Richard Ducroz Jan Henri Ducroz ChamonixNiklas Edin Sebastian Kraupp Fredrik Lindberg Viktor Kjäll Karlstad David Nedohin (fourth) Randy Ferbey (skip) Scott Pfeifer Marcel Rocque EdmontonBrad Gushue Mark Nichols Ryan Fry Jamie Korab St. John'sGlenn Howard Richard Hart Brent Laing Craig Savill ColdwaterAndy Kapp Andreas Lang Holger Höhne Andreas Kempf FüssenKevin Koe Blake MacDonald Carter Rycroft Nolan Thiessen EdmontonWang Fengchun (fourth) Liu Rui (skip) Xu Xiaoming Li Hongchen HarbinKevin Martin John Morris Marc Kennedy Ben Hebert EdmontonDavid Murdoch Ewan MacDonald Peter Smith Euan Byers LockerbieJohnny Frederiksen (fourth) Ulrik Schmidt (skip) Bo Jensen Lars Vilandt CopenhagenJohn Shuster Jason Smith Jeff Isaacson John Benton DuluthRalph Stöckli Jan Hauser Simon Strübin Markus Eggler BaselThomas Ulsrud Torger Nergård Christoffer Svae Havard Vad Petersson Oslo
Draw Pool A TeamWLPFPA Martin 6 0 43 20 Ulsrud 4 2 33 22 Koe 4 2 38 35 Edin 4 2 29 33 Ferbey 2 4 26 34 Wang 1 5 24 32 Dufour 0 6 22 38
Scores: Martin 9-1 Edin Ferbey 4-2 Wang Koe 7-4 Dufour Martin 6-3 Dufour Ulsrud 8-2 Edin Koe 6-4 Ulsrud Edin 8-3 Ferbey Martin 8-4 Wang Wang 8-5 Dufour Koe 7-6 Ferbey (9) Edin 5-3 Dufour Martin 5-4 Ulsrud (9) Koe 6-4 Wang Ulsrud 7-4 Ferbey Martin 9-5 Koe Ferbey 6-4 Dufour Edin 5-4 Wang (9) Ulsrud 6-3 Dufour Martin 6-3 Ferbey Ulsrud 4-2 Wang Edin 8-6 Koe
Pool B TeamWLPFPA Howard 6 0 44 22 Schmidt 4 2 34 34 Kapp 3 3 30 23 Gushue 3 3 26 26 Shuster 2 4 21 31 Stöckli 2 4 31 32 Murdoch 1 5 20 38
Scores: Howard 9-5 Kapp Shuster 4-3 Gushue Kapp 7–1 Gushue Stöckli 8-4 Murdoch Howard 9-3 Schmidt Kapp 8–0 Shuster Gushue 6-5 Stöckli (9) Schmidt 5-3 Shuster Howard 8-3 Murdoch Howard 4-1 Gushue Stöckli 4-1 Kapp Schmidt 8-3 Murdoch Schmidt 6-5 Kapp (9) Shuster 5-4 Stöckli Gushue 6-2 Murdoch Howard 6-5 Shuster (9) Howard 8-5 Stöckli Kapp 4–3 Murdoch Gushue 9-4 Schmidt Schmidt 8-5 Stöckli Murdoch 5-4 Shuster
Playoffs
External links Event website World Curling Tour event site