Among a group of youngsters, 34-year-old Stewart Hagestad did himself proud at Cypress Point Club, the lone mid-amateur on the US Walker Cup side contributing a pair of singles wins in the Americans’ 17-9 victory over Great Britain & Ireland.
When you’re 21 years old and Dad wants to hang with you and your friends for dinner, the reaction could be a mix of guilt and horror. Unless your father is a continent’s fiery golf hero and your buddies have looked up to him for as long as they’ve been swinging a club. So Luke Read more…
In the 35 years since Cypress Point Club took itself out of the rotation for the PGA Tour’s Bing Crosby Clambake—otherwise known as the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am—there have been few glimpses of it from those who are outside of its 250 members and their grateful guests.
During its annual meeting last weekend, the governing body solidified that Pine Valley will host the prestigious amateur match pitting the United States against Great Britain & Ireland in 2044.
In the run-up to any team contest, a few sporting metaphors invariably spring to mind when it comes to the various decisions, behaviour and carefully considered comments required of the two captains. “Jockeying for position” comes to mind. So does “shadow boxing.” And, from cricket, “playing a straight bat.” Still, after all the preamble has Read more…
You may have heard this before in a golf context. Walker Cups, like every other golf competition, are played on grass and not, as the tired old cliché has it, on paper.