The 1936 Walker Cup, the 9th

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Match, was played on September 2 and 3, 1936, at

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. The United States won by 9 matches to 0 with 3 matches halved.

Format

Four 36-hole matches of foursomes were played on Wednesday and eight singles matches on Thursday. Each of the 12 matches was worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match was all square after the 36th hole extra holes were not played. The team with most points won the competition. If the two teams were tied, the previous winner would retain the trophy.

Teams

The United States team of 11 was announced in April.

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was the captain and was given the option of whether to play himself or not. The day before the match started he announced that he had decided not to play, to give the younger players a chance and that all the other 10 members of the team would play in either the foursomes or the singles. Six members of the Great Britain and Ireland team were announced in late May, before the

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. These were

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, the captain, Bentley, Langley, Lucas, McLean and Thomson. The remaining four were announced in early June. Tweddell did not select himself or

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for any of the matches. Lucas had recently had an attack of tonsilitis.

United States

Playing captain:

* Albert Campbell * George Dunlap *

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* Johnny Fischer * Harry Givan *

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* Reynolds Smith * George Voigt * Ed White *

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Great Britain & Ireland

&
Playing captain:

* Harry Bentley * Morton Dykes *

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* Alec Hill *

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* Jack McLean *

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* Hector Thomson

Wednesday's foursomes

The American pair of Harry Givan and George Voigt were seven up on Alec Hill and

after six holes of the second round and were still three up with four to play. However, Hill and Ewing won the next three holes to level the match after 17 holes and with the last hole halved in par fours the matches was halved.

Thursday's singles

References

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