{"id":123694,"date":"2025-09-06T06:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123694\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T06:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:55:08","slug":"on-walker-cup-eve-all-is-in-order-the-matches-will-put-an-end-to-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/123694\/","title":{"rendered":"On Walker Cup eve, all is in order. The matches will put an end to that"},"content":{"rendered":"

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. \u2014 There is no driving range, here at Cypress Point Club<\/a>, not for the event this week, the Walker Cup<\/a>. The 20 players go down the road a mile or so to Spyglass and use the range there. Even under normal conditions, the range here is just a modest sloping hill, no fancy anything. Cypress doesn\u2019t do fancy. It leans into quiet, timeless, elegant.<\/p>\n

Late Friday afternoon, there was an opening ceremony for this 50th playing of the Walker Cup. Some of the observers were on the range and speakers and other dignitaries \u2014 President George W. Bush; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ridley<\/a>; Mr. and Mrs. Vinny Giles, Mr. Andy North, etc. \u2014 were seated on white folding chairs stationed on the first fairway. It was lovely. These are chaotic times all over the world. All is well here. Things are in order.<\/p>\n

The American players have been wearing baseball caps with a big W on their fronts. The W is for Walker. The event is named for George Walker, the first president of the USGA. His grandson become the 41st president of the United States and his great grandson became the 43rd. W. spoke at the opening ceremonies here on Friday. He was funny, appropriate and quick.<\/p>\n

WATCH \u201cCYPRESS POINT\u2019S HIDDEN BEAUTY\u201d HERE:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The band played on. The Del Monte Brass band, 50 members strong, each of them a volunteer. Amateur players playing for an amateur golf event. There were trumpet players in local colleges and horn players in their 70s. They opened with \u201cBorn to be Wild,\u201d all brass, no vocalists, but this will maybe conjure something for you:<\/p>\n

Get your motor runnin\u2019
Head out on the highway
Looking for adventure
In whatever comes our way<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t incongruous. It was congruous.<\/p>\n

They were wearing black from head-to-toe, performing for an unlikely collection of club members and amateur golfers and the game\u2019s deepest fans.<\/p>\n

The sky was cooling, the 20 players were pretending to be calm and collected, the dignitaries on hand were oh-so-appropriate.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will play \u2018God Save the Queen,\u2019\u201d the Del Monte Brass band\u2019s leader told his players. \u201cI mean, \u2018God Save the King.\u2019 We will play the National Anthem.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

It was lovely, as golf is lovely. It was timeless, as golf is timeless. It was orderly. The golf here, in four sessions \u2014 Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon; Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon \u2014\u00a0will feature shots that finish in the ocean and greens where three putts are not enough. Disorder will reign, as it always does in golf. But as Friday closed, everything was in its proper place.<\/p>\n

Michael Bamberger welcomes your comments at\u00a0Michael.Bamberger@Golf.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. \u2014 There is no driving range, here at Cypress Point Club, not for the event…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-123694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}