How to purchase your tickets


TICKETS FOR THE WALKER CUP MATCH ARE REAL VALUE FOR MONEY, ESPECIALLY FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.


n Fans will be able to attend the match for as little as £40 for an Adult Weekend Ticket and £25 for a Daily Ticket, while families are also being encouraged to attend with children under the age of 16 being admitted free of charge. There are reduced price tickets available for those aged 16-24 years old.


didn’t abort their mission and William C. Fownes, the 1910 US Amateur champion, who had twice assembled amateur teams that played against Canada in 1919 and 1920, rounded up a third team. It included Charles ‘Chick’ Evans,


Francis Ouimet and Robert T. Jones. Its destination was Hoylake. The opposition was a British team featuring the likes of Tommy Armour and Cyril Tolley. Though the match, staged the day


before the British Amateur, was informal, it was contested keenly – the Americans emerged victorious, 9 matches to 3. This would have seemed an unlikely


result shortly after their arrival at Hoylake in the midst of a long, dry spell of weather on the Wirral peninsula. The fairways were running fast, and the visitors had difficulty stopping the ball on unwatered greens during their practice rounds, including a morning 71 by Bobby Jones, followed by an 80 in the afternoon. He later described Hoylake as “dried out with the turf hard and the greens like glass. They don’t water the greens over there; they believe in letting nature take its course.” Nevertheless, on the day of competition,


the British succumbed, though Royal Liverpool Secretary and historian Guy Farrar had his own explanation for their defeat: “It was obvious that certain


They believe in letting


nature take its course


Above: Hoylake’s Matt Jordan, now a professional, represented GB&I at Los Angeles Country Club in 2017


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members of the British team were


suffering from an acute attack of nerves. America did not play unbeatable stuff... we obligingly dug our own graves.” The British may have been dead and


buried in 1921 but the transatlantic match was not. The Walker Cup was contested for in 1922, 23 and 24, and thereafter became the biennial match with which we are familiar, although four potential matches were lost to World War Two and its aftermath. The Walker Cup was last staged at


Hoylake in 1983. Captained by Walker Cup phenomenon, Jay Sigel,


the USA


team beat Charlie Green’s GB&I team 13½ - 10½. Two years ago, at Los Angeles Country


Club, the Americans were easy winners by the wide margin of 19 - 7. Royal


Liverpool looks forward to


welcoming some of the finest amateur golfers in the world - with the aim of helping to make the 47th Walker Cup an unforgettable experience for both players and spectators. n


The Walker Cup - Image courtesy of The R&A/Getty Images


ROYAL LIVERPOOL GOLF CLUB 2019–2020 MAGAZINE 11


Duncan Weir, Executive Director – Golf Development and Amateur Events at The R&A, said, “The Walker Cup is one of the world’s most prestigious and exciting amateur events featuring the most talented golfers from Great Britain and Ireland and the United States. “The two teams have contested many memorable encounters and golf fans of all ages can look forward to watching a competitive and entertaining match next year when it is played on one of the finest links courses in the country.”


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