China hosts World Cup until 2018
Siem (L) and Langer won the World Cup for Germany last year Under a 12-year contract with a new title sponsor, the event will be staged at Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen.The World Cup will also lose its six-year association with the World Golf Championships.The two-man team competition has been a WGC event since 2000 when Tiger Woods and David Duval won the title for America in Argentina.The World Cup began as the Canada Cup in 1953 but in recent years has struggled to attract the world’s biggest
players.World number one Woods has not played since 2001 while Phil Mickelson, Jim Furyk, Ernie Els and Retief Goosen all missed the 2006 event in Barbados.Germany’s Marcel Siem and Bernhard Langer won last year, beating Scottish duo Colin Montgomerie and Marc Warren in a play-off.This year’s event will be played from 22-25 November on the Olazabal Course, designed by Spanish player Jose Maria Olazabal.The three remaining WGC tournaments this year will all be held in the United States.The WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship takes place in Arizona, the WGC-CA Championship in Miami and the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio.