Walker Cup 2025 in Cypress Gave golf fans a look at one of the most prestigious courses in the world. While the famous course along the Monterey Peninsula was the main character in this week’s confrontation between America and Great Britain and Ireland, Golf finally surpassed the host.
GB & I jumped into an early 3-1 lead after the fourth session of Saturday’s opening. But the Americans responded to Saturday’s bachelors, with Bryson Dechambeau cheering them, winning 5.5-2.5 to get a lead with a point on Sunday.
“I think only the one who appears in general means so much to us,” American captain Nathan Smith told Dechambeau. “He gave them a speech of the pump last night, which they loved and went. You know, 36 (holes) is a long day, so they were ready to play today.
My Guiea stayed around Sunday to see like Americans, led by the number 1 amateur Jackson Koivun and 18-year-old amateur winner Mason Howell, Shoots a fifth win of Walker Cup.
Both sides shared the fourth sessions of Sunday morning, with Howell, providing the moment of the day he gathered his approach to 17 to win the game and placed a point on the board.
Separation 2-2 at Sunday morning session meant that the US entered Sunday’s bachelors with a 8.5-7.5 lead, needing 4.5 points to hold the cup and five to win it.
Koivun took the things that went to the Americans on Sunday evening. World amateur number 1 came out in the first match and defeated Luke Weaver 3 and 2 in the American inches closer to the Cup.
Morrison followed with a 3 and 2 win over Niall Shiels Donegan to bring the US within 2.5 points of the Cup.
As the fog rolled and made the visibility difficult for the players, the American team held its foot in gas with its purpose. Ethan Fang rolled over Stuart Grehan 5 and 4, and Howell halved his match with Connor Graham to extend the lead to 12-8. Graham’s Putt to win the match was tracing, but hit the edge of the cup and withdrew.
With the Americans a point away from the holding, Stewart Hagestad, playing in his fifth Walker cup, rolled in a long bird blow through the Cypress Point fog to send Eliot Baker 4 and 3 and give Americans the cup.
“Credit to everyone else to do their job,” told Hagestad Hagestad, who is now 7-1 in the matches of Walker Cup bachelors, Kira K. Dixon of NBC after the match. “Her time couldn’t have worked (better). I’m just so happy that she came in. I hit her a little hard, but every blow is a right kick if she hits her hard.”
Not a minute after the Hagestad bomb, Preston Stoout left no doubt making his knives his approach shot at 17 through the obesity fog and climbing him on one foot to win his match over Luke Poulter and ensure that Americans do more than just hold the cup.
“I’m just blown up,” said US captain Nathan Smith after his team’s victory. “They appeared all the weekend. I want to say, both matches of single people afternoon and I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a Walker Cup team bringing it like those to single this afternoon.”
When the dust settled on Sunday evening, with a fog thicker than ever, the Americans had won 17-9. They went 8.5-1.5 to Sunday bachelors in a unstoppable show of talent and strength that probably impressed the US-open champion, and Ryder Cup “Weapon” who was present.
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