| 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. This challenging course features lush greens, five lakes and lovely open fairways with angled slopes. Most holes offer spectacular Caribbean Sea views, and the course is comprised of 5 par threes, 8 par fours, and 5 par fives.
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 December 4-10, 2006, with a minimum purse of US$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.
"We are pleased to announce that Barbados will be the host of the 2006 World Cup," said PGA TOUR Commissioner Tim Finchem on behalf of the International Federation of PGA Tours. "The World Cup has a tradition of visiting some of the world's great golf venues in exotic locations.
"Next yearıs event will continue that tradition by going to one of the worldıs most attractive destinations at one of the best courses in all of the Caribbean."
Commenting on the 2006 Barbados World Cup, Dermot Desmond, principal owner of Sandy Lane, said, "All of us at Sandy Lane are honored that the World Cup will be played here next year, and I am confident that everyone at Sandy Lane and in Barbados will do their utmost to make this the best World Cup ever."
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.
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