[4][5] Jason Day, the individual champion of the 2013 World Cup of Golf, qualified automatically, representing Australia, and was allowed to select his partner as defined below.

One player each from 27 other countries qualified based on their position in the Official World Golf Ranking on 1 August.

The table below lists the teams in order of qualification (i.e. ranking of seeded player on 1 August 2016), together with their World Ranking at the time of the tournament.

The order is based on the World Rankings on 1 August 2016.

Three countries with an eligible player did not compete: Argentina, Fiji and Paraguay.