Walker Cup 2011 guide

Your guide to the 2011 Walker Cup at Royal Aberdeen, Balgownie Links. The GB&I 2011 Walker Cup side face the Americans in September looking to win back the Walker Cup after defeat two years ago in the States. Your guide to the 2011 Walker Cup

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Over the following pages we'll be giving you a guide to the 2011 Walker Cup at Royal Aberdeen in Scotland. We'll have pictures of the 2011 GB&I team to face the United States, player profiles and pictures of Balgownie Links at Royal Aberdeen where the 2011 Walker Cup is being played. Don't forget to play our Walker Cup quiz at the end and you could win some fantastic prizes.

What is the Walker Cup?

At that meeting was a certain George Herbert Walker who was so taken with the idea that he offered to donate a trophy. He was a keen golfer and the 'Walker Cup' name stuck. In 1921, the USGA invited nations to send teams to compete for the Walker Cup, but no country was able to accept that year. At Hoylake, the Americans beat a British team 9 to 3 in an informal match the day before the British Amateur. In 1922 only Great Britain accepted America's invite. The American team won the first Walker Cup Match, 8 to 4 and the contest was off and running.

1923 British Walker Cup side

Members of the Great Britain Walker Cup team of 1923 [Getty Images]

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