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Location
  
Ireland

Month played
  
August

Established
  
1967

Final year
  
1969

R.T.V. International Trophy

Course(s)
  
Edmondstown Golf Course Cork Golf Club

The R.T.V. International Trophy was a professional golf tournament. In its first year, 1967, there was a professional team tournament between the four home nations at Edmondstown Golf Course, County Dublin. The next year the event became an individual tournament played at Cork Golf Club, Little Island, Cork, Ireland. The individual event was held twice, in 1968 and 1969. The tournaments were sponsored by R.T.V. Rentals.

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Team event (1967)

The tournament was played on 25, 26 and 27 August with each team playing the other three. There were teams of 6 with 3 foursomes matches in the morning and 6 singles in the afternoon. All matches were over 18 holes. The total prize money was £3,480.

The teams were:

  • England: Peter Alliss (Captain), Brian Barnes, Fred Boobyer, Neil Coles, Malcolm Gregson, Tony Grubb
  • Scotland: John Panton (Captain), Harry Bannerman, Eric Brown, John Burns, I Clark, George Will
  • Wales: Dai Rees (Captain), R Davies, Brian Huggett, Peter Jones, Hugh Lewis, Dave Thomas
  • Ireland: Christy O'Connor Snr (Captain), Hugh Boyle, Christy Greene, Ernie Jones, Nick Lynch, Paddy Skerritt
  • Brian Barnes played for England, although he later represented Scotland in team events.

    The event was the second attempt to run a regular professional home nations tournament, but like the first attempt, the Llandudno International Golf Trophy in 1938, it was only run once. The winning captain in 1938, Percy Alliss, was the father of the winning captain in 1967, Peter Alliss. A similar format was used for the 1971 Double Diamond International.

    Matches

    Friday 25 August

    Saturday 26 August

    Sunday 27 August

    References

    R.T.V. International Trophy Wikipedia