The R&A announced on Monday the Great Britain and Ireland team for this years Walker Cup.The team includes Harry Ellis, who won The Amateur; Alfie Plant, low amateur at The Open; and notable European amateur winners Jack Singh Brar and Matthew Jordan.GB&I is the defending champion, having won, 16 to 9 , two years ago at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. This years matches will take place at Los Angeles Country Club, Sept. 9-10.The U.S. team was announced on Sunday.Heres a look at the full GB&I team, captained by Craig Watson:
- David Boote, 23, Walton Heath, Wales
- Jack Davidson, 20, Llanwern, Wales
- Harry Ellis, 21, Meon Valley, England
- Scott Gregory, 22, Corhampton, England
- Matthew Jordan, 21, Royal Liverpool, England
- Paul McBride, 21, The Island, Ireland
- Robert MacIntyre, 21, Glencruitten, Scotland
- Alfie Plant, 25, Sundridge Park, England
- Jack Singh Brar, 20, Remedy Oak, England
- Connor Syme, 22, Drumoig, Scotland
The R&A announced on Monday the Great Britain and Ireland team for this year's Walker Cup. GB&I Walker Cup team includes Amateur champ; Open silver medalist. By Golf Channel Digital.
GB&I Walker Cup team includes Amateur champ; Open silver medalist
GB&I Walker Cup team includes Amateur champ; Open silver
Harry Ellis, winner of The Amateur in 2017. (Getty Images) The R&A announced on Monday the Great Britain and Ireland team for this year's Walker Cup. The team includes Harry Ellis, who won The Amateur; Alfie Plant, low amateur at The Open; and notable European amateur winners Jack Singh Brar and Matthew Jordan.
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After winning the first hole with a birdie on the 539-yard par-5, a team of Collin Morikawa and Norman Xiong found a groove, carding winning birdies on the next three holes, and a par that would be good enough to go 5-up on the fifth against a GB&I team made up of 2017 British Amateur Champion Harry Ellis and British Open Silver Medalist Alfie
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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.
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England's Plant was the leading amateur at the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale to win the Silver Medal The 25-year-old from Bexleyheath, who is also the current European amateur champion, plans to turn professional after the 46th Walker Cup match against the United States at the Los Angeles Country Club from Sept. 9-10.
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In doing so the 21 year old from Southampton also guaranteed himself a spot in Great Britain & Ireland's 2017 Walker Cup team. The selectors have been clear in recent years that a home winner of the Amateur Championship, in a Walker Cup year, would rightly have to be included in our team. Harry Ellis (Photo: @RandA)
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Five-time member of the GB&I Walker Cup team between 1977 and 1989 ; Five-time Eisenhower Trophy team member, including 1988 when he won the individual event and GB&I won the team event ; Low amateur at The Open Championship 1978 and 1979; In 1978 became the first British amateur golfer to make the cut at the Masters Tournament
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The R&A today announced the Great Britain and Ireland team to face the USA in the 46th Walker Cup match which will be played at Los Angeles Country Club on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 September.
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• Ten-player team includes five Englishmen, two Scots, two Welshmen and one player from Ireland. The R&A today announced the Great Britain and Ireland team to face the USA in the 46th Walker Cup match which will be played at Los Angeles Country Club on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 September.
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