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46TH WALKER CUP MATCH MEDIA GUIDE SEPTEMBER 9-10, 2017 The Los Angeles Country Club | Los Angeles, Calif. 46TH WALKER CUP MATCH SEPTEMBER 9-10, 2017 The Los Angeles Country Club (North Course) Los Angeles, Calif. Par: 35-35–70 Yardage: 7,397 Golf Course Architect: George C. Thomas Jr., 1927 Golf Course Restoration: Gil Hanse, 2010 2017 CONDITIONS OF PLAY THE TEAMS The Walker Cup Match is contested by male amateur golfers, one team from the United States of America and one team comprised of players from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The teams consist of not more than 10 players and a captain. LOCATION & SCHEDULE OF PLAY The Match is conducted every two years, alternately in the USA and in Great Britain or Ireland. In 2017, the 46th Walker Cup Match will be played on the North Course at the Los Angeles Country Club in Los Angeles, Calif. Saturday, Sept. 9 Four foursomes matches (18 holes) Eight singles matches (18 holes) Sunday, Sept. 10 Four foursomes matches (18 holes) 10 singles matches (18 holes) SCORING Victory in a match scores one point. When a match goes 18 holes without a decision, one-half point is awarded to each side. 2017 UNITED STATES WALKER CUP TEAM CAMERON CHAMP DOC REDMAN 22, of Sacramento, Calif. 19, of Raleigh, N.C. DOUG GHIM SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER 21, of Arlington Heights, Ill. 21, of Dallas, Texas STEWART HAGESTAD BRADEN THORNBERRY 26, of Newport Beach, Calif. 20, of Olive Branch, Miss. MAVERICK MCNEALY NORMAN XIONG 21, of Portola Valley, Calif. 18, of Canyon Lake, Calif. COLLIN MORIKAWA WILL ZALATORIS 20, of La Cañada Flintridge, Calif. 21, of Plano, Texas 2017 GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND WALKER CUP TEAM DAVID BOOTE PAUL MCBRIDE 23, of Walton Heath, Wales 21, of The Island, Ireland JACK DAVIDSON (20) ROBERT MACINTYRE 20, of Llanwern, Wales 21, of Glencruitten, Scotland HARRY ELLIS (21) ALFIE PLANT 21, of Meon Valley, England 25, of Sunridge Park, England SCOTT GREGORY JACK SINGH BRAR 22, of Corhampton, England 20, of Remedy Oak, England MATTHEW JORDAN CONNOR SYME 21, of Royal Liverpool, England 22, of Drumoig, Scotland MATCH HISTORY The Walker Cup Match began in the wake of World War U.S. Amateur champion Jesse Guilford, Robert T. Jones I with a view toward stimulating golf interest on both Jr., Max Marston, Francis Ouimet, Jess Sweetser and sides of the Atlantic. The match grew in part out of two Rudolph Knepper, who did not play. international matches between the USA and Canada, in 1919 and 1920. Robert Harris was captain of the British side, and his play-ers were Cyril Tolley, Roger Wethered, Colin Aylmer, At the same time, British and American amateurs C.V.L. Hooman, W.B. Torrance, John Caven and W. Willis considered each nation’s national amateur championship Mackenzie. Ernest Holderness, the British Amateur a great plum. Mean while, the USGA Executive Committee champion, was unable to make the trip. had been invited to Great Britain for a series of meetings with the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews Rules Bernard Darwin, the golf writer of The Times of London, Committee. The meeting was to look at the advisability had accompanied the team and wound up playing in of modifying vari-ous rules of the game. Among the the Match. When Harris fell ill, Darwin was invited to participants was George Herbert Walker, USGA president compete in his place and serve as playing captain. He in 1920. defeated Fownes, 3 and 1. The American Team, however, prevailed, winning the fi rst Walker Cup Match, 8-4. Upon the Executive Committee’s return to the United States of America, international team matches were Until recent years, the USA clearly dominated the series, discussed. The idea so appealed to Walker that he but the number of American victories never clouded the soon presented a plan and off ered to donate a trophy. true pur-pose of the Walker Cup Match. A much higher Walker had been a low hand-icap player and was a value has been placed upon the series as a medium of keen advocate of the game. When the press dubbed the international friend-ship and understanding between The trophy the Walker Cup, the name stuck. R&A and the USGA. In 1921, the USGA invited all golfi ng nations to send teams The Match was played on an annual basis until 1924, to compete in the Match, but no country was able to when it was decided that the fi nancial strain of annual accept that year. The Americans stuck to their mission, encounters was too severe. It was also believed that however, and William C. Fownes, the 1910 U.S. Amateur interest might drop if the Matches were played too champion, who had twice assembled the amateur teams frequently. A decision was made to meet in alternate that played against Canada, rounded up a third team years. in the spring of 1921 and took it to England. At Hoylake, the American team defeated a British team, 9-3, in an The series was interrupted by World War II after the informal match the day before the British Amateur. 1938 Match at St. Andrews, Scotland. When the Match resumed, in 1947, St. Andrews was again selected Early in 1922, The R&A announced that it would send a as the site. Under normal peacetime conditions, the team to compete for the Walker Cup at the National Golf Match would have been played in the USA, but postwar Links of America, Walker’s home club, in Southampton, economic conditions would have made the trip diffi cult N.Y. for the British. Originally, the competition was open to any country that Many Walker Cup alumni have gone to have tremendous might care to challenge. The USGA invited all countries pro-fessional success, including Jack Nicklaus, Phil to compete. Except for Great Britain, however, no other Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Corey Pavin, Davis Love III, country was able to accept. Rickie Fowler, Webb Simpson and Jordan Spieth. Fownes was the American captain for the inaugural match and his team consisted of Charles Evans Jr., Robert Gardner, 45TH WALKER CUP MATCH RESULTS Sept. 12-13, 2015 Royal Lytham & St Annes G.C., Lancashire, England Par: 34-36—70, Yardage: 7,086 GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GB&I USA DAY 1 FOURSOMES Ashley Chesters/Jimmy Mullen (3 and 2) Maverick McNealy/Hunter Stewart 1 0 Paul Dunne/Gary Hurley Beau Hossler/Denny McCarthy (3 and 1) 0 1 Cormac Sharvin/Jack McDonald (5 and 4) Jordan Niebrugge/Robby Shelton 1 0 Jack Hume/Gavin Moynihan (3 and 2) Lee McCoy/Mike McCoy 1 0 Day 1 Foursomes 3 1 DAY 1 SINGLES Ashley Chesters Bryson DeChambeau 1/2 1/2 Paul Dunne Hunter Stewart (2 up) 0 1 Grant Forrest Scott Harvey (2 and 1) 0 1 Jimmy Mullen (2 up) Denny McCarthy 1 0 Ewen Ferguson (1 up) Maverick McNealy 1 0 Gary Hurley Robby Shelton 1/2 1/2 Jack Hume Beau Hossler (1 up) 0 1 Gavin Moynihan (4 and 2) Jordan Niebrugge 1 0 Day 1 Singles 4 4 Day 1 Total 7 5 DAY 2 FOURSOMES Ashley Chesters/Jimmy Mullen (3 and 2) Beau Hossler/Denny McCarthy 1 0 Paul Dunne/Gary Hurley (1 up) Mike McCoy/Scott Harvey 1 0 Cormac Sharvin/Jack McDonald (2 up) Hunter Stewart/Lee McCoy 1 0 Gavin Moynihan/Jack Hume Bryson DeChambeau/Robby Shelton (3 and 2) 0 1 Day 2 Foursomes 3 1 DAY 2 SINGLES Ashley Chesters (3 and 1) Jordan Niebrugge 1 0 Paul Dunne Maverick McNealy 1/2 1/2 Jimmy Mullen (3 and 2) Denny McCarthy 1 0 Cormac Sharvin (4 and 3) Mike McCoy 1 0 Ewen Ferguson Beau Hossler (1 up) 0 1 Grant Forrest (2 and 1) Scott Harvey 1 0 Gary Hurley (1 up) Hunter Stewart 1 0 Jack McDonald Lee McCoy 1/2 1/2 Jack Hume Robby Shelton 1/2 1/2 Gavin Moynihan Bryson Dechambeau (6 and 5) 0 1 Day 2 Singles 6 1/2 3 1/2 Day 2 Total 9 1/2 4 1/2 Captain: Nigel Edwards Captain: John “Spider” Miller Total 16 1/2 9 1/2 GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND WINS THE 2015 MATCH Great Britain and Ireland defeated the United States Paul Casey and Luke Donald are among the small group of America, 16½-9½, in the 45th Walker Cup Match at of GB&I players who have posted 4-0 records in a single Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club in Lytham St. Annes, Match. England. College All-Americans Bryson DeChambeau, of Clovis, “I’m delighted with the victory,” said GB&I captain Nigel Calif., the 2015 U.S. Amateur and NCAA Division I men’s Edwards. “We had a very strong front and we have individual champi-on, and Beau Hossler, of Mission Viejo, strength throughout the team. I said last night to the Calif., were the only USA players to score victories in the team that as long as the lads keep doing what they have Sunday singles matches. been doing all week, playing their own games, their short games are fan-tastic, which is probably what has Hossler (3), DeChambeau (2½) and Robby Shelton (2), of given us the edge. Some of the bunker shots have been Wilmer, Ala., were the top point-scorers for the USA. exceptional but also the stan-dard of play here has been “I don’t think we handed them anything. I think they went fantastic.” out and played well, very well, and they won it,” said USA captain John “Spider” Miller.