Puerto Rico Wins the Vote

Puerto Rico will host the World Amateur Team Championships in 2004, the year of its golf association's 50th anniversary.

"Despite a splendid bid from Argentina, Puerto Rico thoroughly deserves its selection," said R&A secretary Peter Dawson, who is also joint secretary of the event's organising body.

Berlin hosted the women's Espirito Santo Trophy and the men's Eisenhower Trophy last month, and the two 72-hole strokeplay events will reconvene in two years' time in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The dates and host courses in Puerto Rico will be announced within the next few months.