Right: The 1921 USA team included Bobby Jones and Francis Ouimet
Above: The British team, photo courtesy of The British Golf Museum
Below: The USA team of 1983
The
Americans emerged victorious, 9 to 3
discussion in the USA and Great Britain about ways of inspiring interest in the game on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1920 the USGA Executive Committee had been invited to Great Britain to meet with the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews Rules Committee to discuss possible changes to the rules of the game. Among the American contingent was George Herbert Walker, USGA President. When Walker and his colleagues
returned home international team matches were discussed. The idea so appealed to Walker that he soon came up with a plan and offered to donate
In 1921 the Hoylake links were the setting for a match between the USA and Great Britain – a seed which blossomed into the Walker Cup proper
a trophy. He had been a low handicap player and was keen to promote the game. When the press dubbed the trophy the Walker Cup, the name stuck and the rest is history. However, in 1921, when the USGA
invited all golfing nations to send teams to compete for the Cup, no country was
able to accept that year. The Americans didn’t abort their mission and William C. Fownes, the 1910 U.S. Amateur champion, who had twice assembled amateur teams that played against Canada in 1919 and 1920, rounded up a third team in the spring of 1921. This team included Charles ‘Chick’
Evans, Francis Ouimet and Robert T. Jones. Its destination was Hoylake. The opposition was a British team captained by Robert Harris. Though the match, staged the day before the British Amateur, was informal, it was no doubt contested keenly – the Americans emerged victorious, 9 to 3. The Walker Cup was last staged at
Hoylake in 1983. Captained by Jay Sigel, the USA team beat Charlie Green’s GB&I team 13 ½ - 10 ½ . Royal Liverpool is proud of its past
and excited by the future. In 2019 we will celebrate a 150 year contribution to the history of the game, reflect on the chapter that was written in 1921, and give the warmest of welcomes to some of the finest amateur golfers in the world. ■
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