In the modern era, world cups - it would seem - are a ten a penny. From alpine skiing to volleyball, the disciplines and tournaments adopting the term for global championships or - increasingly - season-long series of events, seems to increase year after year.
Football's now customary global jamboree every four years is, of course, the grandaddy of them all, kicking off for the first time in Uruguay in 1930 and running - except during the second world war - ever since.
Baseball, too, was one of the first to adopt the world cup concept, all the way back in 1938, in the days long before Major League Baseball endorsed the World Baseball Classic.
But throughout the 1970s and '80s, the concept of a world cup was hijacked by just about every major sporting body.
From ski jumping to rugby union, organisations across the sporting spectrum have sought to cash in on such a valuable, instantly recognisable and marketable tag.
One sport at which that accusation cannot be levelled is golf. While football and baseball were off the mark early, the world's golfers were among the next in line to embrace the idea of nations going head to head in pursuit of glory.