VIDEO: A look at Team USA's Walker Cup practice session
Spirits were high all weekend long at LACC
(USGA Photo)
LOS ANGELES, CA (December 21, 2016) -- Last
weekend 16 Team USA 2017 Walker Cup hopefuls
teed
it up at Los Angeles Country Club in a practice
session
for the biennial event. The practice session was held
in
uncharacteristically cold and rainy conditions but it
didn't tamper the excitement that came with a
chance
to compete for a spot on the team for the September
9-
10 match against Great Britain & Ireland.
"This practice session has a lot of value for me as the
captain and it has a lot of value for the players,"
Team
USA captain Spider Miller said. "It's likely the bulk of
the
team will come from this pool of players, it doesn't
mean that they all will but likely most of them will."
The 16 players at the practice session included
Dawson
Armstrong (Lipscomb), Sean Crocker (USC), Brad
Dalke
(Oklahoma), Doug Ghim (Texas), Gavin Hall (Texas),
Stewart Hagestad (Mid-Amateur), Scott Harvey (Mid-
Amateur), Nick Hardy (Illinois), Rico Hoey (USC),
Maverick McNealy (Stanford), Dylan Meyer (Illinois),
Collin Morikawa (California), John Oda (UNLV),
Scottie
Scheffler (Texas), Jimmy Stanger (Virginia) and
Will Zalatoris (Wake Forest).
ABOUT THE
The Walker Cup
The Walker Cup Match is a biennial 10-man
amateur
team competition between the USA and a team
composed of players from Great Britain and
Ireland
and selected by The R&A. It is played over two
days
with 18 singles matches and eight foursomes
(alternate-shot) matches.
The first United States Walker Cup Team, which
in
1922 defeated the GB&I side, 8-4, at the
National Golf
Links of America, is considered among the best
teams
ever and included Francis Ouimet, Bob Jones,
Charles
“Chick” Evans and Jess Sweetser. Many of the
game’s
greatest players have taken part in Walker Cup
competition, including U.S. Open champions
Jack
Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth for
the
USA
and Graeme McDowell, Rory McIlroy and Justin
Rose
for Great Britain and Ireland.
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