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The Walker Cup: Day Two Pairings
02 Sep 2023
by Justin Golba of AmateurGolf.com

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Great Britain and Ireland will head into the Sunday matches with a 7 1/2 to 4 1/2 lead over the United States after an impressive showing on the first day, Saturday.

John Gough and Calum Scott went 2-0 for GB&I, and Gordon Sargent went 2-0 for the United States. Gough had the most impressive win of the day, defeating 2023 U.S. Amateur Champion Nick Dunlap 6&5 in their singles match.

Related: THE 49TH WALKER CUP: GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND LEAD USA 7 1/2 TO 4 1/2

On Sunday, the teams will play four matches of Foursomes in the morning, and all ten players from both teams will participate in Singles in the afternoon.

For GB&I, Jack Bigham and Barclay Brown are sitting out the morning Foursomes session, and for the United States, Stewart Hagestad and David Ford are sitting out the morning Foursomes session.

SUNDAY FOURSOMES

Caleb Surratt/Ben James vs. John Gough/Matthew McClean
Nick Dunlap/Gordon Sargent vs. Connor Graham/Calum Scott
Preston Summerhays/Nick Gabrelcik vs. Alex Maguire/James Ashfield
Dylan Menante/Austin Greaser vs. Liam Nolan/Mark Power

SUNDAY SINGLES

Caleb Surratt vs. Calum Scott
Nick Dunlap vs. Barclay Brown
Stewart Hagestad vs. Connor Graham
Gordon Sargent vs. John Gough
Preston Summerhays vs. James Ashfield
Dylan Menante vs. Matthew McClean
Nick Gabrelcik vs. Jack Bigham
Ben James vs. Mark Power
Austin Greaser vs. Liam Nolan
David Ford vs. Alex Maguire

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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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