ASIA-PACIFIC MEN’S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP (NOMURA CUP) AUSTRALIAN REPRESENTATIVES AND RECORDS The Asia-Pacific Team Championship is conducted by the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation and is a biennial competition rotated among the Asia-Pacific region. Each team, which consists of four male players, plays 18 holes of stroke play for four days. In each round, the total of the scores from each team constitutes the team score for the round. The four-day (72-hole) total is the team’s score for the championship. The winning team receives the Nomura Cup, which was named after Shun Nomura, the former Vice-President of the Japan Golf Association who donated the Cup. Year Winner Score Runner Up & Score Australia’s Pos. & Score Venue 1963 Japan 1544 Republic of China (1547) Did not compete Wack Wack G&CC Yoshikane Hirose Chang Tung-chan Philippines Kiyoshi Ishimoto Chen Chien-chin Noriyuki Miyoshi Hsieh Min-nan Nomoto Nabeshima Hsu Sheng-san Hiroyasu Tomita Kuo Chi-hsiung Takayuki Yoshikawa Kuo Jung-shu 1965 Japan 876 Republic of China (890) Did not compete Nikko CC Yoshikane Hirose Chen Chien-chi Japan Masahiko Mikami Chen Chien-chin Ginjiro Nakabe Hsu Sheng-san Akihiro Teramoto Lee Cheng-hsiung 1967 Republic of China 861 Japan (06) Did not compete Taiwan GC Chen Chien-chin Shoichiro Maeda Republic of China Ho Ming-chung Michio Mori Hsu Sheng-san Ginjiro Nakabe Shay Yi-shiong Masahiko Shimazaki 1969 Republic of China 891 Japan (898) Did not compete Seoul CC, Chen Chien-chi Ginjiro Nakabe South Korea Ho Ming-chung Tsutomu Irie Chang Tung-chan Kenichi Yamada Lee Cheng-hsiung Shinji Morikawa 1971 Japan 894 Philippines (911) Did not compete Wack Wack GCVC Tsutomu Irie Luis Silverio Philippines Zenjiro Takano Tomas Manotoe Nobuo Takahashi Rolando Viray Michio Mori Ed Unson 1973 India 876 Japan (879) Did not compete Jakarta GCG P K Pitamber Tsutomu Irie Indonesia P G Sethi Michio Mori Vikramjit Singh Ginjiro Nakabe Laksman Singh Tetsuo Sakata 1979 Japan 850 Republic of China (871) Did not compete Singapore Island CC B Nakabe Chen Tze-chung Singapore Y Hagawa Chang Dong-liang N Yuhara Yuan Ching-chi M Naito Lin Chia Year Winner Score Runner Up & Score Australia’s Pos. & Score Venue 1981 Japan 879 New Zealand (901) Did not compete Royal Calcutta GC Tetsuo Sakata Michael Barltrop India Masayuki Naito Neil Gaskin Kazuhiko Kato Paul Hartstone Taichiro Kanatani Colin Taylor 1983 Republic of China 869 Australia (876) 2ND Nam Seoul CC Yuan Ching-chi Tony Dight South Korea Li Wen-chen Gerard Power Lai Chung-jen Wayne Smith Yu Chin-han Chris Tatt 1985 AUSTRALIA 874 Republic of China (889) 1ST Royal Adelaide GC Bradley King Lin Chie-hsiang Australia Brett Ogle Lin Tze-cheng Craig Parry Chen Yun-mao Gerard Power Hsieh Chin-sheng 1987 Japan 877 AUSTRALIA (877) 2ND Royal Hua Hin GC Tetsuo Sakata (won play- David Ecob Thailand Takahiro Nakagawa off) Bradley Hughes Tomio Otomo Brett Johns Kazuyoshi Yonekura Lester Peterson 1989 Japan 887 New Zealand (895) 3RD – AUSTRALIA (904) Taiwan GC Ryoken Kawagishi Owen Kendall Stuart Bouvier Taiwan Shigeki Maruyama Michael Long Paul Moloney Kiyotaka Pie Brent Paterson Lester eeterson Tetsuo Sakata Phillip Tataurangi Stephen McGraw 1991 AUSTRALIA 883 Korea (893) 1ST Wack Wack GC Robert Allenby Joo Hyung Kim Philippines Stephen Collins Joo Kwan Ahn Stephen Leaney In Woo Lee Lucas Parsons Tae Won Park 1993 AUSTRALIA 852 Japan (858) 1ST Royal Selangor GC David Bransdon Shingo Katayama Malaysia Stephen Collins Katsumasa Miyamoto Jason Dawes Shinichi Yokota Chris Jones Kazuyoshi Yonekura 1995 New Zealand 889 AUSTRALIA (890) 2ND Russley GC Richard Best Lee Eagleton New Zealand Hadyn Morgan Mathew Goggin Martin Pettigrew Jarrod Moseley David Somervaille Lester Peterson 1997 Chinese Taipei 829 AUSTRALIA (830) 2ND Hong Kong GC Kao Bo-song David Gleeson Hong Kong Su Chin-jung Geoff Ogilvy Chan Yih-shin Cameron Percy Lin Wen-ko Brett Rumford 1999 AUSTRALIA 845 South Korea (853) 1ST Lahore Gymkhana GC Scott Gardiner Kim Hyung Tae Pakistan Brad Lamb Jung Sung Han Wayne Perske Kim Dae Sub Brett Rumford Kim Sung Yoon 2001 AUSTRALIA 814 New Zealand (821) 1ST Wu Yi Fountain Palm GC Andrew Buckle Sam Hunt China Steven Bowditch Eddie Lee Marcus Fraser Brad Shilton Luke Hickmott Tim Wilkinson 2003 AUSTRALIA 852 Korea (870) 1ST Links GC, QLD Nick Flanagan Hye-Dong Kim Australia Richard Moir Kyung-Tae Kim James Nitties Dong-Hwan Lee Michael Sim Sea-Woo Sung Year Winner Score Runner Up & Score Australia’s Pos. & Score Venue 2005 AUSTRALIA 814 New Zealand (831) 1ST Narita GC Won Jon Lee J. Geary Narita, Japan Andrew Dodt M. Holten Michael Sim B. Iles Andrew Tampion M. Urser 2007 AUSTRALIA 882 Japan (891) 1ST Sunrise GCC Rick Kulacz Naoyuki Tamura Taiwan Andrew Dodt Shunsuke Sonoda Tim Stewart Yuki Ito Rohan Blizard Yuki Usami 2009 Korea 846 Chinese Taipei (868) 6th – AUSTRALIA (899) Nam-Seoul CC Meen-Whee Kim Chien-Yao Hung Daniel Beckmann Seoul Chang-Won Han Chi-Hsien Hsieh Matt Jager Jung-Ho Yoon Fei-Hao Yang Bryden MacPherson Kyung-Hoon Lee Tao Huang Jordan Sherratt Stuart Cox (M) 2011 AUSTRALIA 840 New Zealand (861) 1ST Denarau and Natadola Bay Marika Batibasaga Ryan Fox GCs Daniel Bringolf Vaughan McCall Fiji Jake Higginbottom Sam An Cameron Smith Mathew Perry 2013 AUSTRALIA 828 Korea (837) 1ST Santiburi CC, Thailand Cameron Davis Chang-Woo Lee Geoff Drakeford Nam-Hun Kim Taylor Macdonald Soo-Min Lee Aaron Wilkin Jeong-Woo Ham 2015 JAPAN 842 c/b Chinese Taipei (842) 7th (854) Yaslinks, Abu Dhabi Daisuke Matsubara Chiu Hang-Ting Brett Coletta Toskiki Ishitoku Yu Chan-an Ben Eccles Naoyuki Kataoka Liu Yung-Hua Harrison Endycott Takumi Kanaya Lu Sun-Yi Travis Smyth Gareth Jones (M) Matt Cutler (M) 2017 THAILAND 808 Japan (820) 3rd (825) Sungai Long Golf CC, Kammalas Namuangruk Daiki Imano Charlie Dann Malaysia Sdaom Keawkanjana Takumi Kanaya Dylan Perry Atiruj Winaicharoenchai Keita Nakajima Minwoo Lee Kosuke Hamamoto Kazyua Osawa Shoe Wools-Cobb Matt Cutler (M) .