Participants
Listed below are the participants in the tournament with their 1995 year-end world golf ranking which was used to seed each bracket.
| United States | Europe | Japan | International | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking | Player | Ranking | Player | Ranking | Player | Ranking | Player |
| 5 | Corey Pavin | 4 |  Bernhard Langer |
82 | Shigeki Maruyama | 1 |  Greg Norman
|
| 11 | Tom Lehman | 6 |  Colin Montgomerie |
86 | Tsuneyuki Nakajima | 2 |  Nick Price
|
| 12 | Loren Roberts | 14 | Sam Torrance |
90 | Masahiro Kuramoto | 3 |  Ernie Els
|
| 15 | Peter Jacobsen | 23 |  Costantino Rocca |
94 | Hidemichi Tanaka | 9 | Steve Elkington
|
| 17 | Lee Janzen | 37 |  Jesper Parnevik |
105 | Katsuyoshi Tomori | 16 |  Vijay Singh
|
| 18 | Mark McCumber | 38 |  Barry Lane |
114 | Hisayuki Sasaki | 25 | David Frost
|
| 19 | Scott Hoch | 48 |  Miguel Ángel Jiménez |
117 | Hideki Kase | 28 |  Michael Campbell
|
| 20 | Davis Love III | 58 | Mark James |
193 | Ryoken Kawagishi | 39 | Craig Parry
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United States bracket
Played at Reynolds Plantation, Great Waters Course, Greensboro, Georgia, USA.
| Quarterfinals April 22, 1996 | Semifinals April 23, 1996 - morning | Finals April 23, 1996 - afternoon | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Corey Pavin | |||||||||||||
| 8 | Davis Love III | 2 up | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Davis Love III | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Lee Janzen | 1 up | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Peter Jacobsen | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Lee Janzen | 3 & 1 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Lee Janzen | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Scott Hoch | 3 & 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Tom Lehman | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Scott Hoch | 1 up | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Scott Hoch | 23 holes | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Mark McCumber | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Loren Roberts | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Mark McCumber | 4 & 2 | ||||||||||||
Europe bracket
Played at The Oxfordshire Golf Club, England.
| Quarterfinals May 20, 1996 | Semifinals May 21, 1996 - morning | Finals May 21, 1996 - afternoon | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Bernhard Langer | 20 holes | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Jesper Parnevik | |||||||||||||
| 1 | Bernhard Langer | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Colin Montgomerie | 4 & 3 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Colin Montgomerie | 1 up | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Costantino Rocca | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Colin Montgomerie | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Sam Torrance | 3 & 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Sam Torrance | 2 & 1 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Mark James | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Sam Torrance | 6 & 4 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Miguel Ángel Jiménez | |||||||||||||
| 3 | Barry Lane | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Miguel Ángel Jiménez | 1 up | ||||||||||||
Japan bracket
Played at Golden Palm Country Club, Kagoshima, Japan.
| Quarterfinals March 30, 1996 | Semifinals March 31, 1996 - morning | Finals March 31, 1996 - afternoon | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Shigeki Maruyama | 4 & 3 | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Ryoken Kawagishi | |||||||||||||
| 1 | Shigeki Maruyama | 5 & 4 | ||||||||||||
| Katsuyoshi Tomori | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Hidemichi Tanaka | |||||||||||||
| 5 | Katsuyoshi Tomori | 3 & 2 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Shigeki Maruyama | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Hisayuki Sasaki | 3 & 2 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | Tsuneyuki Nakajima | |||||||||||||
| 7 | Hideki Kase | 2 & 1 | ||||||||||||
| Hideki Kase | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | Hisayuki Sasaki | 4 & 3 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Masahiro Kuramoto | |||||||||||||
| 6 | Hisayuki Sasaki | 1 up | ||||||||||||
International bracket
Played at Blackwolf Run, Kohler, Wisconsin, USA
| Quarterfinals August 29, 1996 | Semifinals August 30, 1996 - morning | Finals August 30, 1996 - afternoon | ||||||||||||
| 1 | Greg Norman | 1 up | ||||||||||||
| 8 | Craig Parry | |||||||||||||
| 1 | Greg Norman | 4 & 3 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Steve Elkington | |||||||||||||
| 4 | Steve Elkington | 3 & 2 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | Vijay Singh | |||||||||||||
| 1 | Greg Norman | 1 up | ||||||||||||
| 6 | David Frost | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Nick Price | 4 & 2 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Michael Campbell | |||||||||||||
| 2 | Nick Price | |||||||||||||
| 6 | David Frost | 5 & 3 | ||||||||||||
| 3 | Ernie Els | |||||||||||||
| 6 | David Frost | 1 up | ||||||||||||
Final four
Played at Grayhawk Golf Club, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| January 4, 1997 | ||||||
 Scott Hoch | 4 & 2 | |||||
| January 5, 1997 | ||||||
| Sam Torrance | ||||||
| Scott Hoch | ||||||
| January 4, 1997 | ||||||
| Greg Norman | 1 up | |||||
 Hisayuki Sasaki | ||||||
| Greg Norman | 5 & 4 | |||||
| Third place | ||||||
| January 5, 1997 | ||||||
| Sam Torrance | ||||||
| Hisayuki Sasaki | 2 & 1 | |||||