The Walker Cup is coming to the Merion Golf Club September 11-13, 2009. This event, in suburban Philadelphia, matches the ten best amateur golfers in American against the best from the Great Britain and Ireland team. George Herbert Walker, the grandfather of Bush 41 and great grandfather of Bush 43, President of the United States Golf Association in 1920, was interested in starting a competition between teams from around the world. By 1922 the call went out from the USGA to host an international Match at The National Golf Links of America. Only a team from Great Britain and Ireland could afford to come. The press dubbed the Matches the Walker Cup and it stuck.
This year's very emotional national flag raising ceremony takes place Friday afternoon at 5pm. The two rounds a day Matches start Saturday morning at 8am.
Tickets for The Matches can be purchased at www.meriongolfclub.com. There will be no parking at the Club. There are two primary ways to get to The Matches. The first is a P&W (Philadelphia& Western) trolley line stop at the Club. In addition, remote parking in the Radnor Financial Center, east of central Wayne, will be running a shuttle to the course. Allow at least twenty minutes once on the bus.
One of the greatest things about the Walker Cup Matches is your proximity to the players. The total gallery will be small enough for you to walk with the players on the fairways and closely surround the greens. A number of these twenty young men from both sides will shortly be relinquishing their amateur status and you'll see their names on the world's professional circuits. You can hear their discussions with their caddies. Learn how they think and see if you agree with them.
The Merion Golf Club has hosted at least one United States Golf Association event for eleven consecutive decades, eighteen events in all. The twelfth decade and nineteenth event will be in 2013 when it hosts the US Open. Only Baltusrol and Oakmont with fifteen events each at close to Merion's total.
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