Great Britain and Ireland produced the biggest comeback in Walker Cup history to defeat the United States and lift the trophy for the first time since 2015.<\/p>\n
At Lahinch in Ireland, the USA looked to be on the brink when they swept the morning foursomes to move just three-and-a-half points away from a sixth consecutive victory.<\/p>\n
But GB&I picked up seven of the 10 points in the singles to clinch victory by 13-and-a-half points to 12-and-a-half and win for the first time in 11 years.<\/p>\n
Josh Hill had the winning moment as he defeated world number two Tyler Watts on the final hole of the eighth pairing, and that sparked wild celebrations to mark a victory that seemed so unlikely after Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
For Irish player Stuart Grehan, winning the biennial amateur tournament on home turf meant event more.<\/p>\n
“I’m close to crying and I’m not an emotional person,” Grehan told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
“It’s unbelievable, it’s the best feeling I’ve ever had on a golf course by a long stretch.”<\/p>\n
Grehan twice defeated world number one Preston Stout in the week, including in Sunday’s decisive singles, and he said it was “incredible” to lead the fightback.<\/p>\n
“With the way the day flowed, everyone on this team is just unbelievable,” Grehan added.<\/p>\n
“It’s been an amazing week and to play Preston twice in the singles and get the better of him, I’m really proud of myself and it’s amazing.”<\/p>\n
For captain Dean Robertson, the emotions were flowing as he guided GB&I to the Walker Cup for the 10th time.<\/p>\n
“It’s been very emotional and I could not be more proud,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I had full belief in the players, even at lunchtime when we went down 4-0.”<\/p>\n
After Grehan defeated Stout, who battled a bug in the lead-up to the event, in the opening match, that set the tone for the comeback that was to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain and Ireland produced the biggest comeback in Walker Cup history to defeat the United States and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-762280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}