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The Omega Mission Hills World Cup will return as a biennial event next year to fall in line with golf's return to the Olympics in 2016.

The two-man team event, won by Italian brothers Francesco and Edoardo Molinari last year, will be staged at the Mission Hills Resort on Hainan Island in southern China from November 24-27, 2011.

By playing the event in alternate years from next year, the World Cup will be aligned with many of the major sports in the Olympic movement, such as the World Athletics Championships, which are contested biennially and do not clash with the summer and winter Games.

Stephen Urquhart, president of Omega, said: "In addition to finding a coherent strategy in relation to the Olympics, one of the main reasons for making the World Cup a biennial event is that it should give all the federations involved a better opportunity to send their best teams to represent their country.

"We are confident that we can make important inroads in our primary objective, which is to re-establish the World Cup in its rightful position."