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JIMMY DUNNE President, Seminole Golf Club

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A PERFECT PAIRING At Long Last, The Walker Cup Match Comes to Seminole Golf Club

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THE HISTORY OF THE WALKER CUP Nonsul tus hos boncus, quam esilium aus te temno quam esilium aus

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THE HAWK AND THE HERO Nonsul tus hos boncus, quam esilium aus te temno

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NINE CAPTAINS Since 1955 Seminole has been a breeding ground for Walker Cup captains who share a passion for amateur competition and the fellowship of the game

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THE SUN SETS ON SEMINOLE Weekend recap tus hos boncus, quam esilium aus te temno

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MEMBERS AND FRIENDS Nonsul tus hos boncus, quam esilium aus te temno

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STATISTICS

THE PERFECT PA I R I N G At long last, the Walker Cup Match comes to Seminole Golf Club

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HEN THE SPRING SUN ROSE on Juno Beach and the 48th

Walker Cup Match between the United States and Great Britain and Ireland at Seminole Golf Club on May 8-9, 2021, excitement and destiny filled the air.

For behind the thick garlands of sea grapes that crown the crystalline beach

named for a fiercely protective Roman goddess of home, family and warfare lies an iconic golf course and club whose one-word name is spoken with the reverence of a holy oath.

Carved out of a tangled, snake-infested swamp in 1929 by an industrious carpenter’s son from Dornoch, Scotland, named Donald Ross, tenaciously guarded from the outside world’s prying eyes by its founders and spiritual heirs, Seminole Golf Club occupies its own liminal space somewhere between heaven and earth – a secular shrine to the amateur game known the world over, yet only experienced by the fortunate few.

Until now.

OPPOSITE: THE SUN RISES OVER THE SEVENTH GREEN AT SEMINOLE GOLF CLUB.

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“In a sense,” says Seminole’s president, Jimmy Dunne, “this

“In a word, the golf IQ of this club is incredible,” says head

is an unveiling decades in the making, and the perfect moment

professional Bob Ford, who knows a thing or two about amateur

for opening up Seminole to the world. Given our history as a club

excellence. Ford, a former Bob Jones Award winner – the USGA’s

that since its inception has nurtured the amateur game at the

highest honor -- served as Oakmont Country Club’s head

highest level, we feel the timing is right — and the Walker Cup

professional in Pittsburgh for 37 years, simultaneously holding

the perfect way — to welcome the world. You might even say,” he

down Seminole’s top job until he retired from Oakmont in 2016

adds with an Irish twinkle, “we are the perfect pairing.”

and began working exclusively for Seminole.

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“More importantly,” Ford adds, “what A FEW NUMBERS SUPPORT THE CASE

you find here among members is a profound

• Within a club of 330 members, nearly 200 are

affection and respect for amateur golf, a

single-digit handicappers.

genuine love of competition and the tradition

• Approximately one quarter of the membership

of fellowship that comes from it. It’s been

have competed in USGA Championships.

that way from the beginning. To have the

•Thirteen present or former members

Walker Cup come here at long last is one of

have won either British or USGA national

the most fitting occasions I can think of, and a

championships.

truly good thing for all of golf — for no place

•Half a dozen presidents of the USGA have

embodies the values of amateurism better

been, or presently are, Seminole members,

than Seminole.”

including the current President StuFrancis and Executive Director and CEO of the USGA, Mike Davis. Numerous

He pauses and smiles. “Some might simply wonder what took the Walker Cup so long to get here!”

members have also served on various USGA committees and as

mogul), Walter Chrysler (founder of the car company that’s still

the story goes, the older man snapped, “Hunter, you young snips

bears his name), Henry Carnegie Phipps, Harold Vanderbilt and

make me mad. We old men put up all the money for this club, and

Rodman Wannamaker II.

you snips want us to stay on the sidelines while you ride through.

tournament officials over the decades.

THE SHORT ANSWER is rooted in Seminole’s origins, it’s birth

• Seminole’s annual George L. Coleman Invitational is

in 1929 as an exclusive retreat for some of Florida’s wealthiest

The idea for their ultra-private golf retreat was reportedly

considered one of the world’s elite amateur events, attracting

winter residents, a select membership of businessmen and titans

born when Wall Street tycoon Edward F. Hutton and his pal

A short time later, Hutton, Marston and other members of

top Mid-Amateur and Senior Amateur talent from across

of industry who wished to enjoy golf with their friends on a

Hunter Marston were playing at newly-established Gulfstream

Palm Beach’s “younger golfing set” purchased a large tract of

the globe.

golf course built by a master craftsman. In the faraway days of

Golf Club during the winter of 1928 and came upon an elderly,

marshy wilderness north of town. As Hutton told friends who

•

Finally, perhaps most compelling of all, nine of the Walker

the American Jazz Age, the club’s founding members included

slow-playing carpet mogul named John Sanford and his valet.

expressed interest in their highly private project, he and his

Cup’s 28 captains have been Seminole members.

iconic names like Herbert “Tony” Pulitzer (son of the newspaper

When Marston politely inquired if the pair might play through,

partners intended to build the finest golf course in the world.

No, stay behind – in your turn!”

THE 16TH HOLE AT SEMINOLE GOLF CLUB

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Even slow-footed John Sanford would sign on as a founding

earth as possible, allowing the natural terrain of a site to dictate

The brilliance of Ross’s economical design is best revealed by his

member. To this day, fast play remains a tradition at Seminole.

a design that would test all levels of skill. Ross won the contract.

strategic use of the site’s dominant physical feature, the western

In a decade during which some of America’s most celebrated

Unlike other private Florida country clubs with their busy

ridge that grants Seminole much of its distinctive character. As

golf course architects did their finest works, Hutton could

social calendars and range of amenities, the club Hutton and

his crews shaped the earth with mule-teams and slip pans, Ross

have had his pick of Golden Age designers. The man he settled

partners envisioned would cater exclusively to the refined tastes

located a dozen natural tee and green sites around the beach

on, however, was a quiet-spoken Scotsman who created four

and fellowship of gentlemen who primarily loved playing golf.

dune to the east and the boundary ridge to the west, elevating

outstanding golf courses at Pinehurst and dozens of private

Family members would also be welcome. In its lowkey approach

greens in traditional links style. He drew two conventional

and public courses across the Northeast and Southern states.

to the game, however, there would be no starting times, few rules,

returning nines that artfully exploited the changing elevations

One story goes that upon learning that Alistair MacKenzie was seriously under consideration to build Bobby Jones’s Augusta National, a job he’d hoped to snag, Ross cabled Hutton directly from his winter home in Pinehurst hoping to be considered for

The man he settled on, however, was a quiet-spoken Scotsman who created four outstanding golf courses at Pinehurst and dozens of private and public courses

the Seminole job.

across the Northeast and Southern states

By the time the Scotsman walked onto the property, 180 men working in teams of twenty for sixty hours a week had begun clearing the site. At least two other prominent architects

as little paperwork as possible, no daily breakfast or evening meal

and touched the highest points of the property at least twice,

under consideration preceded him. In their proposals, William

service, and only a fine luncheon made available daily. Moreover,

providing dramatic views of the ocean and a variety of enhanced

Flynn and a second designer whose name is lost to history

as a seasonal club that would only open from November to March,

shot options and perils.

both proposed leveling the dominant 40-foot sandy ridge that

coinciding with Palm Beach’s traditional wintertime High Season,

The designer’s biggest challenge became his major

defined the western edge of the site, using its sand to fill the

the club would close sharp at six each evening so members could

engineering feat. During early blasting, a generous fresh water

site’s low-lying swampy interior, portions of which were two feet

be safely home to dress for dinner. The same rules — and absence

source from natural artesian wells was discovered and used for

below sea level. The layouts they envisioned would be a relatively

of many others — more or less prevail to this day.

irrigating the course, creating one of the first fully irrigated golf

flat affairs, the kind of conventional golf courses common to Florida’s coastal terrain.

Ross had other ideas. His reputation was built on creating championship golf courses quickly and economically, layouts that

On March 12, 1929, eight days after the inauguration of

courses in the nation. A major issue remained, however, from the

Herbert Hoover as the thirty-first President of the United

occasional tidal surge after heavy rainstorms that made the low-

States, twelve initial founding members signed on, officially

lying areas of the layout a natural marshland subject to serious

incorporating the Seminole Golf Club.

flooding. Ross’ clever solution was to devise a series of shallow,

were kinder to the game’s newcomers but challenging to highly

hand-dug ponds and inner-connect canals that effectively

skilled players. He was also a firm believer in moving as little

drained the affected areas, employing a new pumping technology

DONALD ROSS— THE ORIGNAL ARCHITECT OF SEMINOLE

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US MAGNISIMIN CON CUMQUO maio dolora sitam facea porum quidelluptis

W.C. FOWNES JR., CAPTAIN OF THE USA WALKER CUP TEAM, PUTTS IN FRONT OF A WELL-DRESSED CROWD AT THE INAUGURAL WALKER CUP MATCHBESIDE THE FAMED PUNCHBOWL GREEN (16TH) AND IN THE SHADOWOF NATIONAL GOLF LINKS’ ICONIC WINDMILL.

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ineme nihilies conesse rurore nos, non acciens ulicultorta, cus

ulestebatur, fue temque conferimo concute etimum id iam iurbi

parent? Veres me in dis. Sat, venti, tere te moeride ffresse

conscri se nihin se cotem in sedo, quo te te pertem quemure,

horariam crit, cut videnihicam aut vicienatem etem poptim spere

peri senihilinit; nonsit deeses host aberite fin temquem quostil

natusquium nossi testis esse, st iam achuc iaelic tis. Ivivitum

quam ret patin videmprio horum etrimus cureniam Patus tam

derursum nos andaci prachuci fue pro vivirtilius bonos, con ta

hocumen tebunica; es publicae ferisse am stimum audam sentiam

quam sul hortem us, C. Hoculvi

novidi, et, Ti. Fui ina, consupionfec

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vestro vilisquam inte puliu cre crit

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cut rem, quem publicis suasdam

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hocultur horbitam inatuam ta re,

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avessimur us me et construr aus per

fit L. Dectumus rebuntes publissus,

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prarei iustrartam iam in verfecum

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porbitarbis hilis vit? que confeci

atili in det, Ti. Sp. Imum publistra

nerivemque dientus hilis vit vicautem

defacit vivivitus me crius? Heme

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lin deo, plisquam hor hi, sediures

in diurbi publicates? Ad intra aler

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omnitintia? Deconiquam, quam obuloctorum involus, nonte

publicit perum it ves? Bondemus, num ad sed fuempere, te

pultust publibus publi interei pri ius huiti, quam pro comacta quo

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nostem que o ipio aciem ignost atas conves facit. Ost L. Mae

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vat, nonsum ente nos Catractum factum quo es bons consimus, te

pulia nos hosulis cum que et alica moendumursus fes fur, quod

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in vendam vis orem fore, Palis noculic apernum et publictam

publistridem

pimihilnem

GEORGE HERBERT WALKER, FOR WHOMTHE MATCH IS NAMED, WAS PRESIDENTOF THE USGA. BOTH HIS GRANDSONAND GREAT-GRANDSON WOULD BE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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TWO OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL FIGURES IN20TH CENTURY GOLF, BERNARD DARWIN, LEFT, AND C.B. MACDONALD, PLAYED KEY ROLES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE WALKER CUP MATCH.

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nonsus hoctus inatrun tericae maximmor quo me publibus;

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egertim perores? Habemus, con partero pubit. Fuiu vericau

cipiora non temo efacit, quondie remus, Catus vis curnunius

detilic remurbem num vit. consus etro, esignos tementilnes

pari in ina, obsenateatra sul cotalestus pra Senatam ta, quosti,

fuidessil conterione inatatum is suludam unum te cla vitus suam

auctea vo, core hilium vis cons inatquissis cluterei estrum rebem

ia dem nihicae viveres tiocturnit, quam mant. Quiderrae culto et,

aucturis. Veridien rem publiu medo, prat or adhui se teribultime

nos vivatam tam. Evivess enduciam tebatuampro ad scestrurs et

nostrum num sediuscient? Ad anum, ca; enat patus hos spiem res

re, quo pertere adduci prorae vis, Catus etilis, facterora, nonum in

bonvertius etili consulego vivenenatil virmis, ne horitiae hocchus

restra in simus conferis. Sentis vid di, que inem arimper mihilic

sidensu licaes! Od invercered ca non vidi conduc vid internihil

aequid init potifeceps, Cat resum ad sent? To et inessed emquit

videper ortatum pos esenatat.

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The man he settled on, however, was a quiet-spoken Scotsman who created four outstanding golf courses at Pinehurst and dozens of private and public courses across the Northeast and Southern states

spiorum adhuium et; noctum, nos morum sente, quam. Vivis adhuite rratatuus? Apero etius atquempos, nostra con plicastilic in Ita re temum sunihicavem diis. Ipterfec menaris maion Ita L. Cerit; horum, quost vastum acchus nonium tum nonferi stratum iam inequem ac int rei publiquo int vivem Romnes horbis nonum

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partus, trestra mentis hoctuam, Catquem ela int, nicae tabefac

di perfecrum per quoditus, Ti. Opicam, inarium trussiciis note

fici proremp ecerus, conum ad Casdacchil viribus confecrenatu

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constaturbi caucid morarbis? Edi tatu que di, si sena, sum antem

vitia vis coniquam dem poenihi lictanumenis ocultus rem, C.

ia? Equonti dertum ia se publicam duceperurs publicaes non

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in dem ute, quidetid ius crit. Grature villa vivit? Od nostilius cris

comnost vem iam terceru ressed pris consus, omandam. Ec omni

henem, num, si istium in tem facit vignonfin patiam acipsen

vicultorur, det? Tam es publibutum iusum potestem dem in ves

porbisse vatin vistrudem. Rorissum ta dem Romperivis? Verude

ihicae nem dem plin nocum quam ocris ferei in tabus conlos,

BOBBY JONES, FAR LEFT, AND THE REST OF THE INAUGURAL U.S. WALKER CUP TEAM IN 1922.

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AMERICAN GOLFERS CHARLES COE AND HARVIE WOOD HOLDING THE WALKER CUP IN 1959.

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satiae ere peri, condame audeo, nequam et vivid moveric atudam

mo ad consulum am ut viciorum ma, sulinum ta nem nica

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EN HOGAN’S NAME FIRST APPEARED in Seminole records in 1947 for

winning the Col. Latham Reed Amateur-Professional Tournament with playing partner Michael Phipps. But his connection to the club, particularly longtime friendships with members Robert “Bobby” Sweeny, George Coleman

and Wall Street broker Paul Shields, began with his first visit in 1941.

Following his breakthrough on the PGA Tour the previous year, Hogan and wife Valerie

could afford to follow the sun to Palm Beach, initially staying at the Breakers Hotel but later renting a seaside villa not far from the gates of Seminole Golf Club. Because of his growing affection for the course and Club’s unstructured privacy, his annual springtime quickly visit grew into a full month’s residency and a lifelong love affair. The Hogans even briefly considered purchasing a winter home near the Colemans in North Palm Beach.

Upon his miraculous recovery and comeback from a near-fatal car crash to win the 1950 U.S. Open at Merion, followed a year later by a successful defense at ruthless Oakland Hills, Hogan’s connections to Seminole grew even stronger. That same year, not long after George Coleman officially became a member of Seminole, he arranged to have The Hawk made an honorary member.

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“...smooth as a Rolls Royce engine, the finest swing I’ve ever seen.”

A R N O L D PA L M E R O N T H E G O L F S W I N G O F B O B B Y S W E E N Y

Though Hogan was known to occasionally invite regular

world’s richest women and the niece of Seminole founder E.F.

members to play for relatively modest wagers – the rare few who

Hutton. Despite rumors of an impending marriage, the twice-

beat him were known to keep his checks uncashed -- Hogan’s

divorced Hutton instead married actor Cary Grant in 1942.

preferred matches were against amateur star Bobby Sweeny,

During his years in London, Sweeny also became friendly with

afternoon Nassaus that ran into hundreds

the family of Ambassador Joseph Kennedy,

of dollars and became the stuff of Seminole

a Seminole member, and something of a

legend.

role model for Kennedy’s impressionable

The Hawk’s attraction to Sweeny isn’t

son, Jack. The two played golf many times at

hard to figure. A lean, patrician Californian

Seminole and Hyannisport.

who grew up in New York and London,

When war broke out, Sweeny joined the

with movie star good looks and a golf swing

Royal Air Force’s famed “Eagle Squadron,” an

Arnold Palmer once described as “smooth

all-volunteer group of American fighter pilots

as a Rolls Royce engine, the finest swing I’ve

founded by his older brother, Charles. He

ever seen,” 26-year-old Bobby Sweeny played

successfully piloted a Liberator bomber on

in the inaugural Amateur-Professional just

more than 80 missions over enemy territory,

weeks before capturing the 1937 British

earning the Distinguished Flying Cross from

Amateur Championship at Royal St. George’s

King George VI. In the closing days of the

Golf Club in England. Film star Merle

war, he was also credited with helping capture

Oberon followed him around the course, generating headlines of

a German double agent at a dinner party hosted by the Queen of

her own in the Fleet Street press.

the Netherlands, and is said to have been the inspiration for Ian

Within a year, Sweeny was making society headlines on both sides of the Atlantic with Barbara Woolworth Hutton, one of the

LEFT: BARBARA HUTTON AND BOBBY SWEENY IN PALM BEACH RIGHT: ROBERT SWEENY SWINGS DURING HIS SEMI-FINAL MATCH WITH C. STONE WHOM HE BEAT ON JUNE 9, 1937

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Fleming’s debonair fictional spy hero, James Bond.

After the war, he married and settled comfortably in Palm

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Palmer explained years later. “I was in shock but he was the soul of graciousness and couldn’t have been a finer gentleman.”

Ben Hogan was also the recipient of Sweeny’s fabled grace and elegance. A five-times Men’s Club Champion and two-time Seminole Cup winner, Sweeny dominated the course so thoroughly he not only set the amateur course record of 65 in 1952 but was eventually prevailed upon by The Hawk to give up strokes in their legendary head-to-head matches, most of which Sweeny won.

Late Tour star Dave Marr, once an assistant pro at Seminole, loved to tell the story of how Hogan arrived one winter for his month of Masters preparation and found himself beaten four times in a row by Seminole’s finest player, at which point he demanded – and got – a stroke per side in their $100 standing Nassau matches.

As weeks progressed and Hogan’s game rounded into form, Beach, becoming a fixture at Seminole.

When he met a young paint salesman from Latrobe,

however, The Hawk refused to give back the strokes, a measure of his respect for Bobby Sweeny’s exquisite ball striking abilities.

Pennsylvania, in the finals of the 1954 U.S. Amateur Championship

Those who knew him best always wondered why Sweeny was

at Detroit Country Club, the contrasts between Arnold Palmer and

never chosen to represent America in the Walker Cup Match.

Bobby Sweeny couldn’t have been more dramatic. Palmer was a

Part of the answer may lie in the fact that the war deprived him

free-swinging, self-taught son of rural Pennsylvania; Sweeny a war

of competition from ages 28 to 34, prime years for a golfer of his

hero and wealthy scion of American and British societies. Sports

elite abilities. For years stories also circulated that he was often

Illustrated summed up their epic duel as a “battle of the classes.”

considered but his dual citizenship made selection problematic.

Arnold was followed by his nervous parents; Sweeny by a beautiful

Whatever the reason, the aging Seminole Champion who never

socialite dressed all in cream white.

complained about an unlucky shot or unhappy outcome spent most

The match ended on the 36th hole when Sweeny – one

of the 1960s and ‘70s living quietly in London and playing most of

down -- drove his ball into the deep rough, pitched out short

his golf at Sunningdale Golf Club, where he dazzled members with

of the green, smiled and removed his cap, conceding the match

his stories and patrician golf swing. He died of cancer in 1983.

to the future King of golf. “I couldn’t believe what happened,”

Several years ago, former British Walker Cupper Bruce

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William Campbell EVERAL YEARS AGO, the late Walker Cup legend William “Bill” Campbell was asked by a

golf journalist about his long and distinguished golf career.

“I must correct you,” he replied with one of his gentle contrarian smiles. “I haven’t had a career in golf. I’ve had a wonderful life in amateur golf. There’s a big difference. Amateur golf is

about one’s simple love of the game, the pleasure of competition and fellowship that goes with it. When I look back on the many ways golf has enriched my life, I regard playing in the U.S. Amateur and my fortunate Walker Cup participation as major highlights. For they embody what the amateur spirit is all about.”

It was a telling observation from the courtly, self-effacing insurance man from West Virginia, for not only did Campbell compete in 37 U.S. Amateur Championships -- winning the title on his 21st attempt at Canterbury in 1964 – but served on eight Walker Cup teams between 1951 and 1975, compiling a record of 11-4-3 that included a nearly perfect mark of 7-0-1 in singles. He also served as playing captain for the USA team that dominated the Match at St Andrews in 1955 by a margin of 10-2.

By the end of his competitive days, the second Bobby Jones Award recipient had also collected a pair of U.S. Senior Amateur titles, qualified for 18 Masters and 15 U.S. Opens, and become a leading force in the governing bodies of golf worldwide, the only man to serve as both Captain of the Royal &Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and President of the USGA.

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Like many who would follow his lead, Campbell’s passion for

tie for the second time on American soil. “They [GB&I] came

amateur golf led him to Seminole in 1969, a moment he reflected

on strong on Day Two. We were lucky things went our way,”

on in the Afterward to the club’s 75th anniversary book, The Story

he told a reporter from the sunny terrace of his rest home in

of Seminole. “Of special appeal to me are the people who turn up

North Carolina decades later, the event still fresh in his mind.

at Seminole in broad geographical representation of like-minded

For his part, Dick Siderowf recalls his first Cup appearance

sportsmen,” he wrote, “some better golfers than others, many of

as “ a wonderful, lowkey experience, a relaxed atmosphere

present or past outstanding ability – all savoring the ‘true spirit’

at a beautiful old club where the hospitality was outstanding

of our favorite game played at such a celebrated shrine.”

– and the outcome not determined until the final matches.

Given Seminole’s stewardship of the game, it’s perhaps not too surprising that nine Walker Cup captains have risen from

At the end of the day, that’s what makes the Walker Cup so unique and fun.”

the ranks of the club’s membership over the past 70 years — comprising almost a third of America’s 28 team captains — each one expressing his own vision of the Cup’s intrinsic importance to the present and future of the amateur game.

Here are a few highlights from their Walker Cup campaigns:

Dick Siderowf TWO YEARS LATER, after playing on four winning U.S.

teams between 1969 and 1977, it was Siderowf ’s turn to lead an American team to Muirfield as non-playing

William Patton

captain for 1979, a group headlined by amateur sensation

COLORFUL, WISE-CRACKING North Carolina lumber man

had a pretty strong group but missed out on having Gary

William “Billy Joe” Patton played on four U.S. Walker Cup

Hallberg and John Cook on the team because of a conflict

squads – including the victorious 1955 USA team at St Andrews

with the NCAA,” he remembers. “As it turned out, we

under Bill Campbell’s aegis — before returning as non-playing

didn’t need them. Sigel and Hoch were great from the start

captain in 1969 to lead a diverse American side composed of

and Sutton was on fire in singles, driving the ball 300 yards

Cup veterans and college newcomers that included future fellow

and putting like a man on a mission.”

Seminole members Richard “Dick” Siderowf and Marvin “Vinny”

The key to a successful Walker Cup campaign, he

Giles to 10-8 victory at Milwaukee Country Club. Four decades

reflects, is success in foursomes. “Because alternate shot

later, Patton remembered that the Match in Wisconsin featured

is not something we do much in America, chemistry is

no less than six halved matches and could easily have ended in a

everything. You’ve got to find guys who are compatible

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Jay Sigel and college stars Hal Sutton and Scott Hoch. “We

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and can at least hold their own in that format. I believe it’s as

however, was an announcement from nine-time Walker Cupper

true today as it was back then.” In the final Walker Cup of the

Jay Siegel that he planned to join the US Senior Tour upon turning

1970s, Siderowf points out, the Americans at Muirfield split in

fifty that November, bringing to a close one of the Cup’s – and

TWO YEARS LATER, at Royal Porthcawl Golf Club in Wales,

opening foursomes but GB&I kept the outcome suspenseful

amateur golf ’s – most illustrious careers.

three-time Walker Cupper and non-playing captain Downing

Downing Gray

until Day 2 singles, at which point Team USA went on a

“Obviously, having played on four teams myself, finally being

Gray enjoyed the honor of leading a team that featured the most

7-1 surge to craft a surprisingly lopsided victory, 15 ½ to 8

chosen to serve as a captain meant a great deal to me,” says Giles

heralded American player in decades — two-time U.S. Amateur

½. “It was a dramatic end to a marvelous week,” he sums up,

today. “Jay wasn’t the only one turning fifty that year. To come

Champion Tiger Woods — against a plucky GB&I team loaded

“made even better because my wife Topsy and I were given

that late in my career and end the way it did – making Walker

with Scottish and Irish talent. Gray, a former Florida State star and

the honeymoon suite at Greywalls for the week. Given how it

Cup history – was unforgettable and deeply rewarding.”

a veteran of three Cup quests between 1963 and 1967, including the first and only time the Match ended in an 11-11 tie at Baltimore

ended for our side,” he adds with a laugh, “it really was like a second honeymoon.”

Vinny Giles FOR THE 34TH WALKER CUP at historic Interlachen Country

Club in Minnesota, four-time Walker Cupper Marvin M. “Vinny” Giles — one of a handful of elite players to have won both the U.S. Amateur and British Amateur — guided a balanced squad composed of seasoned Cup veterans (Jay Sigel, Danny Yates and Allen Doyle) plus seven talented newcomers against a solid GB&I team in a Match that was nearly derailed from the start by fitful weather. Torrential rains the night before the first session

foursomes and took 8 of the concluding 10 afternoon matches

soaked the course where Bobby Jones claimed his “Impregnable

resulting in a record-breaking 19-5 victory for Team USA.

Quadrilateral” U.S. Open in 1930, resulting in a hastily altered

The historic margin briefly ignited debate back home in

format that saw Day 1’s traditional opening foursomes replaced by

Britain when the editor of an influential golf publication proposed

10 (rather than 8) singles matches, which left America up by three

inviting top amateurs from the European Continent to bolster the

points by day’s end. Foursomes were played on Day 2 followed by

GB&I cause, an idea eventually rejected by both the USGA and

another 10 singles matches. The home team went 3-1 in morning

the R&A. Perhaps the biggest headline that followed the Match,

VINNY GILES CAPATION HERE

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Country Club in 1965, recalls his first selection to the team in 1963

past his 17th birthday. At that time, Justin Rose was the youngest

the mystical Highlands and outstanding clutch play in Day 2

as “almost an out of body experience, given the great amateurs

player in Walker Cup history. “But several things were different

singles served up a surprisingly easy six-point win for the home

who’d played on the team across history. In my mind, it was the

that year,” Gray remembers. Prior to the Match, the American

lads, a 15-9 victory to mark the final Match of the century.

most magnificent experience a golfer can have – until I was asked

squad assembled for a practice weekend at Deepdale Country

to be a captain,” he adds. “Being a captain was a life-changing

Club on Long Island. “That’s now a commonplace practice,

Cup staged at Sea Island’s Ocean Forest Golf Club in late August

experience for me, especially considering what transpired.”

something both sides do to help create a bond between players

of 2001. For one of the final times in modern Cup competition,

before the Match begins. But I think we were the first team to do

he fielded a team enhanced by older mid-amateur champions

that and it really paid off.”

against a highly regarded GB&I team of youthful guns fresh from

Heavily favored to retain ownership of the cup at Royal Porthcawl, a plucky GB&I team bounced back from a slow start

Yates returned as non-playing captain for the 38th Walker

to prevail convincingly, 14 -10, on the strength of a strong Day

Team USA’s 4-0 sweep in opening foursomes dealt a blow

elite college competition in America. Following another second

2 performance. Woods, playing in his lone Walker Cup Match,

from which Team GB&I never recovered. Following Day 1’s

day surge, led by future PGA stars Irishman Graeme McDowell

disappointingly went 2-and-2.

success, Gray treated his charges to pizza and beer and the team

and England’s Luke McDonald, the visitors claimed all but one

“That’s golf. Always unpredictable. I can tell you there were

received a surprise phone call of encouragement from the PGA

of the final singles matches to retain the Cup by an identical 15-

a lot of quivering lips on our side afterwards,” Gray recalls today

Tour’s Rookie of the Year, a former Walker Cupper named Tiger

to-9 margin, a first in the history of the Match. Sports Illustrated

with a gentle chuckle. “But it turned out to be a very valuable

Woods. “That meant a great deal to everyone,” Gray recalls.

described the moment as “The end of an era,” speculating that

teaching moment for me as a captain and a bonding moment

“Tiger’s enthusiastic support really gave a boost to the team’s

Great Britain and Ireland were now fielding superior teams

for all of us as a team.” Among the positive takeaways, he says,

confidence.” The next day, the Americans coasted to an easy

because many of America’s most promising amateurs were

R&A Secretary Sir Michael Bonallack (nine-time Walker Cup

18-to-6 victory. Former team captain Vinny Giles watched the

leaping prematurely from the college ranks into professional golf.

competitor, two-time Walker Cup captain, five-time British

victory unfold on television and was among the first to phone

Danny Yates has different take on the matter.

Amateur Champ) proposed a Tuesday evening shared team

Captain Gray and offer his congratulations. “I told Downing

amateur, England’s Luke Donald, the reigning NCAA titleholder,

dinner that became a revered tradition of the Match, fostering

that I was rooting hard for the team until I realized that my 19-5

plus a trio of winning Eisenhower Trophy team members that

we lost, I’m proud of the fact that we had those older players on

sportsmanship and stronger ties of friendships on both sides. “It

record might be in jeopardy,” Giles remembers with a laugh.

included English Amateur Champion Paul Casey. Some London’s

both our teams, guys who worked for a living and played the

oddsmakers gave GB&I a slight edge and Fleet Street excitedly

game purely for the love of the competition. They really held their

dubbed them a “Team of Champions.” Quiet-spoken Danny Yates

own. To my way of thinking, that’s what the spirit of the Walker

Danny Yates

fielded a strong contingent of his own, however, with the likes of

Cup is all about. Some years later, at Merion in 2009, I spotted Bill

1997 U.S. Amateur Champ Matt Kuchar and four-time, first-team

Campbell and walked over to say hello. When I asked him which

In 1997, Gray repeated his captaincy at Tillinghast-designed

FOR 1999, Atlantan Danny Yates, two-time Walker Cupper and

All-American Bryce Moulder. “They were loaded with talent. But

side he was rooting for – given his connections to both the USGA

Quaker Ridge in Scarsdale, New York, building his young team

U.S, Amateur runner-up, was tapped to lead the American

our guys battled to the very end,” Yates remembers. “I couldn’t

and the R&A -- he told me something I found so moving. ‘I’m

around 1990s Cup stalwart John Harris and career amateur Buddy

side to Nairn Golf Club in the quaint Scottish seaside town of

have been prouder of them. They never quit.” In the end, though,

not pulling for either side,’ he replied. ‘I’m pulling for the Walker

Marucci. The visitors brought along a talented phenom of their

the same name on Scotland’s rugged Moray Firth. GB&I’s best

own, however, in the person of a young Englishman just ten days

hopes were fueled by the presence of the world’s top ranked

was a wonderful evening, epitomizing what the Walker Cup is all

about. To this day,” Gray adds, “I still get emotional just thinking about how it brought both sides so much closer. Many of us are still good friends to this day.”

“When I look back on those two Walker Cups, even though

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Cup.’ I never forgot that. It perfectly summarizes what’s so special

the Americans by a margin on 16.5 to 9.5, with Rickie Fowler and

about the Cup, win or lose.”

Peter Uihlein both amassing 4-0-0 records. For the United States,

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McNealy and Doug Ghim – finished 4-0 in competition.

“It was great to claim the Cup back,” Captain Miller allows.

“Looking back, I’d learned a few things about player chemistry

it was the third consecutive Walker Cup victory.

“For me this was such a different experience than County

from the previous Match and this one was made even more

Down. If Ireland was fun but nerve-wracking, Merion was

memorable by the unique atmosphere. The weather was beautiful

IN 2007, a veteran of more than 60 USGA Amateur Championships,

stressful and very emotional for me,” remembers Marucci. “Part

and the club members fully embraced the event with large

George Ernest “Buddy” Marucci -- probably best known for

of that was probably because I grew up across the street from the

and enthusiastic crowds for both sides. That made it a magical

battling 19-year-old Tiger Woods in the final round of the 1995

course and had been playing it since I was ten years old. It meant

experience for everyone, especially satisfying for the team.”

U.S. Amateur, taking him to the 36th hole before the issue was

so much to me to see the kids playing for our country there. Rickie

settled -- was selected to lead a gifted American team headlined

kind of took the leadership role on the team, and just seeing what

by future PGA Tour stars Dustin Johnson, Rickie Fowler and

this meant in the eyes of guys like Drew Weaver, Adam Mitchell

Webb Simpson to Northern Ireland’s Royal County Down Golf

and Brian Harmon reminded me of how I felt when I made the

FITTINGLY, the 47th Walker Cup Match was staged at Hoylake,

Club, where they authored a thrilling one-point victory, 12 ½

Walker Cup team at age 43. It couldn’t have been more special.”

England’s Royal Liverpool Golf Club, site of the friendly bilateral

Buddy Marucci

match in 1921 between the top amateur golfers of Britain and

to 11 ½, over a plucky home team that featured its own future professionals, Rory McIlroy and Danny Willett. Marucci sums up the Match as “such a special week, probably the most fulfilling

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Nathaniel Crosby

America that formally blossomed into the Walker Cup Match just

John “Spider” Miller

one year later.

experience of my golfing life, a true nail-biter to the end.” He

THE EIGHTH SEMINOLE MEMBER to carry the mantle of

America’s Walker Cup hopes for 2019 were placed in the

notes that he had a couple primary goals for the week. “One was

Walker Cup captaincy was genial John “Spider” Miller, the two-

hands of 1981 U.S. Amateur Champion Nathaniel Crosby, who

to make sure that we did everything the right way by properly

time U.S. Mid-Amateur champion and 1999 Walker Cupper who

something in themselves and rise to the occasion. Win or lose, it’s

grew up playing at Seminole and went on to be part of the1982

representing our country, amateur golf and the spirit of the

guided a group of fellow Mid-Am champions and highly regarded

an experience you never forget.”

World Amateur Team Championship and 1983 Walker Cup

Walker Cup. That means showing great respect to our hosts and

Palmer Cup teammates to Royal Lytham in 2015 for the 45th Match

Miller returned as the USA’s non-playing captain for the 2017

squad that claimed a 13.5-10.5 victory at Royal Liverpool under

the privilege of playing on such a grand stage. I also wanted our

against a GB&I squad that featured only one world Top Ten ranked

Walker Cup Match at historic Los Angeles Country Club, only the

playing-captain Jay Sigel. After college at the University of Miami,

guys to thoroughly enjoy themselves, especially at a spectacular

player. Once again, however, the home team rose splendidly to the

second time the event had been staged in California. Following a

Crosby played the professional tour overseas before regaining his

place like County Down with 12,000 spectators watching. These

occasion -- forging a relatively easy 15-9 victory that went into

split in Day 1’s opening foursomes, highlighted by a dominating

amateur status and joining Seminole in 2003. “Having missed

are lifetime events, ones none of us will ever forget.”

the books as the largest margin yet by GB&I Walker Cup team.

8 & 7 win by Colin Morakowa and Norman Xiong, Team USA

decades of amateur competition, it was nice to be recognized

The thoughtful fifty-five-year-old Pennsylvanian reprised his

“Looking back,” Miller says candidly, “we were soundly beaten.

took seven of eight singles matches in the afternoon en route to

by the USGA by being selected to be a Walker Cup captain

non-playing captain’s role two years later at Merion Golf Club, his

Their side was really inspired. But our guys fought it out hard to the

the largest win by a USA team in 20 years, 19-7. For the first time

-- especially returning to Hoylake,” he says, where he played

home club, with a USA team that got off to a hot start by claiming

very end and I was incredibly proud of that fact. There’s no sugar

in Cup history, three Americans -- Colin Morikawa, Maverick

sparingly in 1983 but came away with a 1-1-0 record.

the first three matches of Day 1’s foursomes, followed by five of

coating the matter -- we were simply outplayed. But we learned

the available eight points in singles competition that afternoon.

something important about ourselves. And at the end of the day,

Another 3-1 foursomes win to start Day 2 clinched the deal for

that’s what make a Walker Cup experience so special. Players find

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anywhere else, starting with with my dad, brother and George

personal memories and generational friendships that we will

Coleman when I was 14.”

carry till the end of our days.” His friendship with Gary Koch, he

He pauses and adds, “It’s going to be an incredible week and

notes, began as teammates in foursomes at a pair of Walker Cups

very emotional me for me, quite frankly, given what Seminole and

in 1973 and 1975 respectively, blossoming into a close friendship

the Walker Cup both mean to amateur golf. I’ll probably need

and eventually a professional relationship that continues to this

divine intervention from George and my dad just to get through it.”

day.

Likewise, Dick Siderowf and Jerry Pate began their longtime friendship in foursomes at St Andrews in 1975 and still travel

THOUGH EACH of Seminole’s seven living Walker Cup captains

together with their wives to Walker Cup Matches at home and

holds memories unique to their time of guiding Team USA, they

abroad. “It’s the friendships that make these reunions so great,”

share a belief that it’s the lasting relationships that develop from

he explains. “Every Walker Cup has them. The camaraderie is

the game’s most prestigious amateur team event that resonates

incredible. And when they play national anthems and raise the

most powerfully as the years go by.

flags – oh, man, that still gets you.”

“You almost can’t put it into words,” admits Downing Gray.

“It’s a bonding experience and a rite of passage. You start out as a

“Given what this means to amateur golf and what the Walker

other but are transformed by the challenge of playing together as

Cup means to Seminole,” says the de facto Dean of Walker Cup

a team, win or lose, for your country, in a spotlight on the world

captains, “I and every other former captain certainly plan to be on

stage. How amazing is that? It’s the same for both sides, by the

hand for the party.”

more exciting for the fans and incredibly fulfilling for me,” Crosby

way, the emotion and pageantry, an experience unlike any other.

John Augenstein, Johnny Pak and Andy Ogletree ended Day 1

allows. “Given the amazing setting – Hoylake, where the spirit of

It stays with you.”

two points behind a motivated GB&I team and was still down

the Match was really born -- it was very emotional for everyone

a point following Day 2 foursomes. “I told the guys to go out

on both sides, certainly a high point of my long journey in golf.”

To be selected as Team USA Captain for the 48th playing

fullest,” Crosby remembers. “They did just that and then some.”

of the Match at Seminole, Crosby concedes, is icing on the cake.

A final day surge in afternoon singles by Team USA notched

“It’s an incredible honor and I almost have to pinch myself to

victories in eight of ten concluding matches producing a winning

realize it’s happening again,” he says. “Seminole means so much

margin of 15.5-10.5. “To comeback the way we did made it even

to me because I probably played more rounds of golf here than

gets under way at Seminole this week.

group of individually talented players who really don’t know each

An American side bolstered by collegiate stars Brandon Wu,

and have fun, to play hard and enjoy this rare experience to the

Siderowf notes that he will be 83 when the 48th Walker Cup

“What comes out of it,” agrees Vinny Giles, “is incredible

“Best of all,” he adds with a wry chuckle. “We have an apartment a mile away from the course. I can always just walk over.”

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