Word: cups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bernard Darwin, the foremost golf writer of the period, had made one of his rare transatlantic passages to report the maiden Walker Cup Match for The London Times. When the captain of the British squad, Robert Harris, was sidelined by illness, the irrepressible Darwin stepped into the breach and won his singles match...
...English rebounded the very next time around to gain possession of the Walker Cup for the first time at St. Andrews in 1938. The Cup was received amidst general exhiliaration to the lusty strains of "A Wee Deoch and Doris...
...Walker Cup format is eight single matches in the afternoon and four foursomes in the morning on each of the two days of competition. Each match counts one point, with both sides receiving a point if a match is halved...
...green badly with his second and was staring at the prospect of a bogey. Faced with a chip that required the touch of a Swiss watchmaker, Hutcheon cooly pitched out of the cloying rough and watched his ball run over 70 feet of green and cascade into the cup. Hutcheon's victory gave the British team its final point of the competition...
...gallery swarmed toward the clubhouse, the Union Jack was lowered and the President of the United States Golf Association, Harry Easterly, presented the Walker Cup to a beaming American team. "It all started right here 55 years ago," Easterly said, referring to that First Walker Cup Match in Southampton...