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To cap #WalkerCupWeek, I want to know: what course do you want to see host the #WalkerCup?
My dream:
🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇪 The 57th Walker Cup Match 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇪
🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇪 Sleepy Hollow Country Club 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇪
Being completely objective, Sleepy is the perfect Walker Cup host:
1. It’s a historic course (1911) designed and built by two of the game’s great architects (C.B. Macdonald & Seth Raynor).
2. It’s been renovated and modernized by the game’s greatest and most prolific modern restoration architect (Gil Hanse).
3. It’s proven capable of hosting an amateur national championship (the 2023 Mid-Amateur Championship won by Stewart Hagestad) both in terms of course quality and logistics.
4. It has an incredible super (Jonathan Heywood) and greens staff that will have the course playing to perfection.
5. It is an exceptional match play golf course that guarantees thrilling and compelling matches.
6. The Stanford White-designed Woodlea clubhouse can house all the players from both teams for the duration of the event.
7. It has an outstanding recently published history book (marginally relevant, but still….)
8. It has a tremendous membership that would go all out in support of the event and the players.
9. It’s a stunningly beautiful venue that players, fans and staff would all enjoy visiting.
So think about it, @USGA - Stewart Hagestad as captain of the 2038 U.S. Walker Cup team, returning to the site of his third Mid-Amateur victory! Let’s make this happen!
Throughout this #WalkerCupWeek, we’ve discussed most of the future #WalkerCup venues like Lahinch (2026), Princes (2030), Chicago (2036) and Pine Valley (2044), but one we haven’t mentioned:
Oakmont Country Club will host the 54th Walker Cup Match in 2032, and most assuredly, it will be absolutely awesome. Oakmont is the quintessential American tournament venue, and has deep Walker Cup connections: William Clay Fownes, son of Oakmont’s founder Henry Clay Fownes and the second president of the club, was the playing captain of the very first American Walker Cup team at NGLA in 1922 and a team member in 1922.
Given the number of @USGA tournaments Oakmont has hosted and the W.C. Fownes connection, it’s surprising Oakmont has never held a Walker Cup previously, but I expect they’ll make up for lost time in a few years by serving up one an incredible venue for this historic event.
As we close out #WalkerCupWeek tonight, here are a few final shots from around Cypress Point - I truly hope we get to see more amateur golf at this wonderful venue before too long.
Tonight, we’ll look at some future #WalkerCup venues of both the actual and the wish-list kind.
That was an amazing shot by Gavin Tiernan from the secret beach left of 16 at Cypress.
Here’s the view from down there (when it’s not foggy). Incredible work to get it on the green. #walkercup #walkercupweek
Continuing the #WalkerCupWeek showcase of the incredible U.S. venues with a stop at Seminole Golf Club, host of the 2021 #WalkerCup.
The venerable Seminole and its coastal Donald Ross gem of a golf course produced a nailbiter, with Team 🇺🇸 nipping Team 🇬🇧🇮🇪 14-12.
If you didn’t love that, you don’t love golf.
Morning foursomes kick off the 50th Walker Cup Match at Cypress Point Club - that’s just as good as it gets.
Can’t wait for Saturday afternoon singles later today. Coverage starts at 7ET on @GolfChannel.
#WalkerCup #WalkerCupWeek
More #WalkerCupWeek Trivia on the eve of the 50th Cypress:
Q: Which U.S. state has held the most #WalkerCup matches? How many? And on which courses?
A. New York has held 6 Walker Cups on 5 different courses: NGLA (1922 & 2013), Garden City (1924), Winged Foot (1949), Shinnecock (1977) and Quaker Ridge (1997).
California and Massachusetts are T2 with 3 cups on 2 courses each. Minnesota has been selected for 3 Walker Cups on 3 different courses, but the 1940 Matches at Town & Country were cancelled due to WWII.
More #WalkerCupWeek Trivia:
Q: When and where did Team 🇬🇧🇮🇪 first beat Team 🇺🇸 on American soil?
A: 1989 at Peachtree Golf Club. This was only the 3rd loss overall for the U.S. team, which was 28-2 heading into the 32nd #WalkerCup Match. Both previous GBI team wins came at the Old Course at St. Andrews.
As an added note, the golf course at Peachtree is absolutely terrific. Designed by Bobby Jones and Robert Trent Jones as an Atlanta-based version of Augusta National, Peachtree stands today as a testament to Bobby, his place in the game and his vision for its future. And it is sublime.
Some more #WalkerCupWeek facts:
Q: When was the last (and only) time the Walker Cup ended in a tie?
A: In 1965 at the lovely Baltimore Country Club. Team 🇬🇧🇮🇪 dominated the team matches and took a 10-5 lead into the singles and needed only two wins, but Team 🇺🇸 staged a furious comeback capped by Clive Clark, who despite being 2-down with 3 holes to play, managed a half for a 12-12 tie via which Team 🇺🇸 retained the Cup.
#WalkerCupWeek rolls on with an 8-pic look at my favorite hole at Cypress Point: the par-4 13th.
This stunning 391yd hole will be pivotal this week: a player/team that is 1up after the 13th hole in match play wins at least half a point 85% of the time.
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#WalkerCupWeek continues with a look at some of the “other” holes at Cypress Point - while everyone knows of the famed 15-16-17 stretch, these lesser-known but no less outstanding holes may prove critical this week:
The 11th - this terrific 475yd par-4 plays to a green backed by a gargantuan dune and comes at a pivotal point in many matches.
The 8th & 9th - perhaps the greatest back-to-back pair of short par-4s on the planet, these two holes, marked at 366 and 289 respectively, are the quintessential risk-reward holes that make for thrilling match play.
The 14th - this gorgeous 391yd par-4 (my personal favorite) plays slightly downhill to a green surrounded by a fan of MacKenzie bunkers and will almost certainly decide multiple matches this week.
The 18th - you’ll hear a few people call this uphill, dogleg right 345yd par-4 the only “bad” hole at Cypress this week, but they overlook the challenge and charm of this finisher that plays through a prehistoric forest of gnarled cypress trees - you don’t want to need to make a 6-footer from above the pin on this green to earn your team half a point.
The match play strategy on display this week on these kinds of holes promises to be incredibly compelling, and I can’t wait to see how the teams decide to play them.
The Old Course at St. Andrews has hosted the #WalkerCup a whopping 9 times out of the 49 times it has been played.
No other venue has hosted more than twice. #WalkerCupWeek
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