The World Cup of Golf doesn’t have the same glamour as football or rugby’s equivalent, but it’s certainly a welcome break from the 72-hole individual strokeplay events that we’re accustomed to.

It’s a pairs’ competition whereby two golfers from each nation join forces to represent their country over four days at Kingston Heath GC, Australia. Playing a mixture of alternate shot and fourball betterball golf, winning the World Cup of Golf requires two in-form golfers who seamlessly dovetail throughout the 72 holes.

This is exactly what Søren Kjeldsen and Thorbjørn Olesen managed to do, including a scintillating 60 (12-under-par) in Friday’s fourballs which propelled them to the top of the leaderboard before the weekend’s play. The Danes held a four-shot advantage heading into Sunday and, although this was cut to just a single stroke at one stage, six birdies on their back nine was more than good enough to claim Denmark’s first World Cup of Golf victory.

French duo Victor Dubuisson and Romain Langasque led the chasing pack four strokes back, with China’s Wu Ashun and Li Haotong and America’s Rickie Fowler and Jimmy Walker also finishing on the same score. How did the English team fare? A T13th finish for the little and large duo of Sullivan and Wood – respectable but not what they were hoping for at the start of the week.