IGF Golf Scoring
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. --Purdue men's golfer Fernando Barco will represent Peru this week at the International Golf Federation's Eisenhower Trophy, being contested in Riviera Maya, Mexico.
Nineteen of the world's top-25 amateur golfers, according to the World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR), will represent their respective countries in quest of the Eisenhower Trophy.
Conducted by the International Golf Federation (formerly the World Amateur Golf Council), which comprises the national governing bodies of golf in more than 125 countries, the World Amateur Team Championships are a biennial international amateur golf competition rotated among three geographic zones of the world: Asia-Pacific, American and European-African. Each team has two or three players and plays 18-holes of stroke play for four days. In each round, the total of the two lowest 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.
Barco will tee off in Wednesday's first round at 11:50 a.m. ET and will be paired with Norway's Viktor Hovland and Germany's Jeremy Paul. Peru will have three golfers representing their country (Felipe Strobach and Julian Perico).
Barco is no stranger to elite international play. The senior from Lima finished 12th at the 2016 Pan-Am Games in Toronto and placed third in the Latin America Amateur Championship last January, narrowly missing a spot in The Masters by just two shots. He has also appeared in the last two U.S. Amateur Championships.
Barco will miss this weekend's Windon Memorial Classic outside Chicago.
