Walker Cup: Saturday morning foursomes pairings at Seminole
Team USA First Alternate Mac Meissner (practicing while listening to some classic rock)
will see action this morning
Players are ready, and Seminole Golf Club is ready. It's time for the 48th Walker Cup matches in South Florida.
You can
watch more than 10 hours of coverage on Golf Channel and Peacock, as the historic matches that place USA against Great Britain and Ireland get underway. Foursomes is first -- with 8 of the 10 USA players (including first alternates Mac Meissner for USA and Jake Bolton for GB&I) get ready to do battle for each side.
Meissner looked cool as a cucumber as he warmed up listening to some classic rock. "Tom Petty?" I asked him?
"I was earlier," he replied.
When in Florida...
The alternates were at the ready, given the non-Covid virus that hit both teams (and captains) hard Thursday and Friday. Hopefully all original ten players on both sides will see action before the weekend is done, as allowed for in the official match rules. Whatever you watch on TV this weekend, make sure you see how these players do at the venerable Seminole Golf Club. It's seldom seen on TV.
Pairings and tee times for Saturday morning's foursomes matches at the 48th Walker Cup Match at the 7,256-yard, par-72 Seminole Golf Club:
All Times EDT
Morning Foursomes Pairings
8:20 a.m. – Alex Fitzpatrick and Barclay Brown, GB&I vs. Cole Hammer and Davis Thompson, USA
8:35 a.m. – Mark Power and John Murphy, GB&I vs. Quade Cummins and Austin Eckroat, USA
8:50 a.m. – Jack Dyer and Matty Lamb, GB&I vs. Mac Meissner and Ricky Castillo, USA
9:05 a.m. – Angus Flanagan and Jake Bolton, GB&I vs. Stewart Hagestad and William Mouw, USA
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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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