After World War I there was much discussion in the USA and Great Britain about ways of inspiring interest in the game on both sides of the Atlantic


Things to


come


Mark Gorton looks forward to an historic return to hoylake.


It Is 5 years in the future but no less exciting for that. In 2019 Royal Liverpool Golf Club will be the venue for the Walker Cup match. The 47th biennial contest that pits


the amateurs of Great Britain and Ireland against those of the United States will be played in September of the year in which Royal Liverpool also celebrates the 150th anniversary of its foundation.


The return of the Walker Cup is a


reminder of Hoylake’s pivotal role in the history of the amateur game. In 1921 the links were the setting for a match between the USA and Great Britain – a seed which blossomed into the Walker Cup proper in the following year when the first official match was played at the National Golf Links of America in Southampton, New York. After World War I there was much


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