The 1990 Dunhill Cup was the sixth Dunhill Cup. It was a team tournament featuring 16 countries, each represented by three players. The Cup was played 11–14 October at the Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland. The sponsor was the Alfred Dunhill company. The Irish team of David Feherty, Ronan Rafferty, Philip Walton beat the English team of Richard Boxall, Howard Clark, and Mark James in the final. It was the second win in the Dunhill Cup for Ireland. (As in the World Cup, Ireland was represented by a combined Ireland and Northern Ireland team.)

Format The Cup was played as a single-elimination, match play event played over four days. The top eight teams were seeded with the remaining teams randomly placed in the bracket. In each match, the three players were paired with their opponents and played 18 holes at medal match play. Tied matches were extended to a sudden-death playoff only if they affected the outcome between the two teams.

Bracket

Round by round scores First round Source:

– 2 – 1Player Score Player Score Satoshi Higashi 68 Miguel Guzmán 70 Yoshinori Kaneko 72 Vicente Fernández 73 Hajime Meshiai 76 Eduardo Romero 73

– 0.5 – 2.5Player Score Player Score Mark Calcavecchia 73 Marc Farry 70 Curtis Strange 69 Jean van de Velde 69 Tom Kite 74 Emmanuel Dussart 73

– 2 – 1Player Score Player Score Miguel Ángel Jiménez 67 Ove Sellberg 72 José Rivero 69 Magnus Persson 72 José María Cañizares 71 Mats Lanner 68

– 3 – 0Player Score Player Score Richard Boxall 74 Sukree Onsham 77 Howard Clark 68 Suthep Meesawat 78 Mark James 70 Boonchu Ruangkit 79

– 2.5 – 0.5Player Score Player Score Sandy Lyle 68 Rafael Alarcón 73 Stephen McAllister 73 Enrique Serna 77 Sam Torrance 69 Carlos Espinoza 69

– 3 – 0Player Score Player Score Ronan Rafferty 70 Choi Sang-Ho 73 Philip Walton 71 Park Nam-Sin 74 David Feherty 69 Choi Yoon-Soo 81

– 2 – 1Player Score Player Score Ian Woosnam 71 Hsieh Yu-shu 78 Mark Mouland 73 Chen Liang-hsi 72 Philip Parkin 77 Kuo Chie-Hsiung 78

– 1 – 2Player Score Player Score Greg Norman 76 Frank Nobilo 67 Wayne Grady 78 Simon Owen 74 Rodger Davis 66 Greg Turner 75

Quarter-finals Source:

– 3 – 0Player Score Player Score Satoshi Higashi 71 Marc Farry 80 Yoshinori Kaneko 71 Jean van de Velde 75 Hajime Meshiai 70 Emmanuel Dussart 70

– 2 – 1Player Score Player Score David Feherty 76 Miguel Ángel Jiménez 77 Ronan Rafferty 71 José María Cañizares 70 Philip Walton 70 José Rivero 82

– 1 – 2Player Score Player Score Ian Woosnam 67 Frank Nobilo 70 Mark Mouland 76 Simon Owen 71 Philip Parkin 75 Greg Turner 74

– 1 – 2Player Score Player Score Stephen McAllister 75 Richard Boxall 73 Sandy Lyle 75 Howard Clark 77 Sam Torrance 73 Mark James 72

Semi-finals Source:

– 2.5 – 0.5Player Score Player Score Philip Walton 70 Simon Owen 71 Ronan Rafferty 68 Frank Nobilo 68 David Feherty 68 Greg Turner 69 – 2 – 1Player Score Player Score Howard Clark 70 Satoshi Higashi 70 Richard Boxall 70 Yoshinori Kaneko 69 Mark James 70 Hajime Meshiai 70 Clark won on first playoff hole. James won on fourth playoff hole.

Final Source:

– 3.5 – 2.5Player Score Player Score Philip Walton 72 Mark James 72 Ronan Rafferty 71 Richard Boxall 73 David Feherty 74 Howard Clark 73 Philip Walton 77 Mark James 76 Ronan Rafferty 71 Richard Boxall 77 David Feherty 75 Howard Clark 75 Feherty won on third playoff hole.

Third place Source:

– 1 – 2Player Score Player Score Satoshi Higashi 75 Greg Turner 72 Yoshinori Kaneko 74 Simon Owen 77 Hajime Meshiai 77 Frank Nobilo 73

Team results Country Place W L Seed 1 11 4 3 2 9.5 5.5 5 3 6.5 5.5 4 7 5 8 T5 3.5 2.5 4 T5 3 3 6 T5 3 3 7 T5 2.5 3.5 T9 1 2 T9 1 2 2 T9 1 2 T9 1 2 T9 0.5 2.5 T9 0.5 2.5 1 T9 0 3 T9 0 3

Player results Country Player W L David Feherty 4 1 Ronan Rafferty 3.5 1.5 Philip Walton 3.5 1.5 Mark James 4.5 0.5 Howard Clark 3 2 Richard Boxall 2 3 Frank Nobilo 2.5 1.5 Simon Owen 2 2 Greg Turner 2 2 Yoshinori Kaneko 4 0 Satoshi Higashi 2 2 Hajime Meshiai 1 3 Sandy Lyle 2 0 Stephen McAllister 1 1 Sam Torrance 0.5 1.5 José María Cañizares 1 1 Miguel Ángel Jiménez 1 1 José Rivero 1 1 Ian Woosnam 2 0 Philip Parkin 1 1 Mark Mouland 0 2 Emmanuel Dussart 1 1 Marc Farry 1 1 Jean van de Velde 0.5 1.5 Eduardo Romero 1 0 Vicente Fernández 0 1 Miguel Guzmán 0 1 Rodger Davis 1 0 Wayne Grady 0 1 Greg Norman 0 1 Mats Lanner 1 0 Magnus Persson 0 1 Ove Sellberg 0 1 Chen Liang-hsi 1 0 Hsieh Yu-shu 0 1 Kuo Chie-Hsiung 0 1 Carlos Espinoza 0.5 0.5 Rafael Alarcón 0 1 Enrique Serna 0 1 Curtis Strange 0.5 0.5 Mark Calcavecchia 0 1 Tom Kite 0 1 Choi Sang-Ho 0 1 Choi Yoon-Soo 0 1 Park Nam-Sin 0 1 Suthep Meesawat 0 1 Sukree Onsham 0 1 Boonchu Ruangkit 0 1

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