About the Tournament

The 2011 Omega Mission Hills World Cup is a golf tournament which will take place from November 24 to November 27 at Mission Hills Haikou in Hainan, China. It will be the 56th World Cup, and the first since 2009, when the tournament switched to being staged biennially. 28 countries will compete as two player teams.

Qualification and format

The leading 18 available players from the Official World Golf Ranking on July 18 qualified. These 18 players then selected a player from their country to compete with them. The person they pick had to be ranked within the top 100 on the Official World Golf Ranking as of September 1. If there was no other player from that country within the top 100 then the next highest ranked player would be their partner. If there was no other available player from that country within the top 500, then the exempt player could choose whoever he wants as long as they are a professional from the same country. A further nine countries will qualify via three qualifying stages, held respectively in Malaysia, Estonia and South America. The final team will be the host nation, China.

The event is a 72-hole stroke play team event with each team consisting of two players. The first and third days are fourball play and the second and final days are foursomes play.

Teams

Country	Players	Qualified
Australia	Brendan Jones and Richard Green	OWGR
Austria	Florian Praegant and Roland Steiner	European Qualifier
Belgium	Nicolas Colsaerts and Jérôme Theunis	OWGR
China	Liang Wen-chong and Zhang Xin-jun	Host nation
Colombia	Camilo Villegas and Manuel Villegas	OWGR
Denmark	Anders Hansen and Thomas Bjørn	OWGR
England	Ian Poulter and Justin Rose	OWGR
Germany	Martin Kaymer and Alex Cejka	OWGR
France	Raphaël Jacquelin and Gregory Bourdy	OWGR
Ireland	Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell	OWGR
Italy	Francesco Molinari and Edoardo Molinari	OWGR
Japan	Yuta Ikeda and Tetsuji Hiratsuka	OWGR
SouthKorea	Kim Hyung-sung and Park Sung-joon	Asian Qualifier
Netherlands	Joost Luiten and Robert-Jan Derksen	European Qualifier
New Zealand	Gareth Paddison and Michael Hendry	Asian Qualifier
Portugal	Ricardo Santos and Hugo Santos	European Qualifier
Scotland	Martin Laird and Stephen Gallacher	OWGR
Singapore	Mardan Mamat and Lam Chih Bing	Asian Qualifier
South Africa	Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen	OWGR
Spain	Álvaro Quirós and Miguel Ángel Jiménez	OWGR
Sweden	Robert Karlsson and Alexander Noren	OWGR
Thailand	Thongchai Jaidee and Kiradech Aphibarnrat	OWGR
United States	Matt Kuchar and Gary Woodland	OWGR
Wales	Jamie Donaldson and Rhys Davies	OWGR
Zimbabwe	Brendon de Jonge and Bruce McDonald	OWGR
TBD	TBD	South American Qualifier
TBD	TBD	South American Qualifier
TBD	TBD	South American Qualifier

Mission Hills Haikou

Coordinates: 19.905375°N 110.310699°E
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Club information
Location: Hainan, People's Republic of China
Type: Private
Owned by: Mission Hills Group

Mission Hills Haikou is a golf complex currently under construction in Hainan, China. At 80sq km (1.5 times the size of Manhattan) and containing 22 golf courses[2] and luxury hotels,[3] it will be the second largest golf complex in the world.  The largest is the Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen.  The complex has been under construction since 2006, but stopped for several months during 2008 because of land disputes.[5] It is due to open some time in 2011. The complex is expected to host the 2010 Mission Hills Star Trophy and 2011 Omega Mission Hills World Cup.