GOLF ROUNDUP : Couples and Love Lead U.S. to Easy World Cup Victory

Fred Couples and Davis Love III cruised to a front-running victory Sunday in defense of their title in the World Cup of Golf and completed an American sweep of all the major team titles this year.

“It’s great for American golf, and I think it’s about time we had a great year,” Love said, then pointed to his partner in this two-man competition at Orlando, Fla. “And Freddie’s played on three of them.”

Love and Couples both played on the Ryder Cup team, and Couples was a member of the three-man U.S. team that won the Dunhill Cup. The other team win was in amateur play, in the Walker Cup.

The Americans led after all four rounds, held a three-shot advantage when play started on the final round and won by five over Zimbabwe with a 20-under-par total of 556.

Bernhard Langer of Germany won the individual title by three shots over Couples.

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U.S. senior golfers won six matches, lost one and drew one against Japan, prevailing in the DuPont Cup Japan-USA Senior Golf Match, 26-6. Al Geiberger shot the day’s best score, a 67, over the 6,729-yard, par-72 Kitaura Golf Club course, northeast of Tokyo.

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John Daly finished 25 strokes behind Fred Funk in the Mexico Open, an exhibition tournament at Mexico City. Funk won with 20-under 268.