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- DictionaryWalk·er Cup/ˈwôkər kəp/
- 1. a golf tournament held every two years and played between teams of male amateurs from the US and from Great Britain and Ireland, first held in 1922. The tournament was instituted by George Herbert Walker, a former president of the US Golf Association.
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The Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested in odd-numbered years by leading male amateur golfers in two teams: United States, and Great Britain and Ireland featuring players from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The official name is the Walker Cup Match (not "Matches" as in Ryder Cup Matches ). It is organised by The R&A and the United States ...
The Walker Cup Match began in the wake of World War I with a view toward stimulating golf interest on both sides of the Atlantic. The match grew in part out of two international matches between the USA and Canada, in 1919 and 1920. At the same time, British and American amateurs considered each nation’s national amateur championship a great ...
The Walker Cup was contested in 1922, 1923 and 1924 and then biennially ever since, with a nine-year hiatus between 1938 and 1947 for World War II. Until recent years, the USA clearly dominated the series, but the number of American victories never clouded the true purpose of the Walker Cup Match. A much higher value has been placed upon the ...
golf. Walker Cup, golf trophy awarded to the winner of a competition between amateur men’s teams from the United States and the British Isles, held biennially since 1922 on sites alternating between the United States and Britain. The cup is named for George H. Walker, a president of the United States Golf Association (USGA) in the 1920s and a ...
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Dec 15, 2023 · However the second would go down in history. The 12.5-11.5 victory in Atlanta was the first time GB&I had won a Walker Cup match on American soil. At the end of the 1989 season Geoff Marks and his Walker Cup team were awarded the Association of Golf Writers Trophy in recognition of their achievement.
The 49th Walker Cup match took place at St. Andrews in Scotland in September 2023. USA won 11.5 – 14.5 and now lead the 97 year old competition W39-L9-D1. This unassailable lead is a result of the one-sided nature of the matches up until 1987. USA won 28 out of the first 31 matches, with GB&I winning just two and halving the other.
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Sep 9, 2015 · When the press dubbed the trophy the Walker Cup, the name stuck. The first Walker Cup Match was contested in 1922 at the National Golf Links of America in Southampton, N.Y. Led by playing captain William C. Fownes Jr., the USA won the inaugural Match, 8-4. The USA leads the series, 35-8-1.
