Usa Thump Gb&i To Win Walker Cup

Great Britain and Ireland collapsed to a 17-9 conclusion by nan USA successful nan Walker Cup successful California.

GB&I trailed 6½-5½ aft time 1 and halved nan greeting foursomes to enactment 1 constituent adrift going into nan day singles astatine Cypress Point successful Pebble Beach.

But nan hosts dominated from past on, winning 8 of nan 10 singles contests to seal triumph successful nan 50th version of nan tourney - a Ryder Cup-style title betwixt nan starring amateurs.

Preston Stout's 2&1 triumph complete Luke Poulter, boy of European Ryder Cup fable Ian, took nan hosts to nan required 14 points to seal victory.

Gavin Tiernan secured GB&I's only singles triumph pinch a 2&1 triumph complete Michael la Sasso.

GB&I's Connor Graham managed half constituent against chap 18-year-old Mason Howell.

"Obviously we travel present to triumph and evidently everyone is simply a small disappointed, but I deliberation we tin look backmost knowing that we each gave it 100%, and I deliberation that's each that really matters," said Tiernan.

GB&I person not won nan Walker Cup since 2015 and are without a triumph connected American ungraded since 2001.

The adjacent version of nan tourney will beryllium successful 2026 astatine Lahinch Golf Club successful County Clare, Republic of Ireland.

The title usually takes spot each 2 years but is shifting to even-numbered years to debar conflicting pinch nan World Amateur Team Championships.