PAR AND YARDAGE – Chicago Golf Club is set up at 6,782 yards and par is 35-35—70.

GOLF COURSE ARCHITECT – C.B. Macdonald is credited with the original design that opened for play in 1894.  Revisions were made in 1922 by Seth Raynor.

WHAT IS THE WALKER CUP MATCH? – The Walker Cup Match is contested by male amateur players, one team from the United States and one team from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.  The teams consist of not more than 10 players and a captain.  The Match is conducted every two years, alternately in the U.S. and Great Britain/Ireland.

SCHEDULE OF PLAY – On Saturday, Aug. 13, and Sunday, Aug. 14, there will be four foursomes matches (18 holes each) each morning and eight singles matches (18 holes each) each afternoon.

Starting Times – (CDT)
Saturday:  7:30 a.m. for foursomes, 12:30 p.m. for singles
Sunday:  7:30 a.m. for foursomes, 12:30 p.m. for singles

TELEVISION COVERAGE – The Golf Channel will show live action from the Walker Cup Match from 11-1 on Saturday and from 4-6 p.m. on Sunday (EDT).

TICKETS – Daily grounds tickets are $15 apiece and a season ticket for both days and the Opening Ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Friday (Aug. 12) is $75.  Upgrades to include Trophy Club dining are $50 daily and $125 for a season ticket.  Juniors (age 17 and under) are admitted free with a paying adult (two junior per paying adult).  The Ticket Office at Chicago Golf Club is (630) 949-3219.

MEDIA CONFERENCES – Captains and players from each team will meet with all credentialed media early Friday afternoon.  Media conferences are also scheduled at the end of each day's play.

THE FOURSOME – Foursomes is a match where two players compete against two other players in alternate shot format, with each side playing just one ball.

WWW.USGA.ORG/CHAMPIONSHIPS  – Log on to the USGA Internet site (www.usga.org) for the latest Walker Cup Match information during the Championship.

SCORING – A victory in each match scores one point.  In the event a match goes 18 holes without a decision, one-half point is awarded to each side.

COURSE SET-UP – The golf course will include green speeds of between 11-feet-6 inches and 12 feet.  The rough will be grown to three inches.

Chicago Golf Club:

HOLE BY HOLE – 6,782 yards, par 35-35—70;

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out
Par	4	4	3	5	4	4	3	4	4	35
Yards	450	450	219	550	328	395	211	445	409	3,457

Hole	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In
Par	3	4	4	3	4	4	5	4	4	35
Yards	149	414	442	149	356	400	525	465	425	3,325

TEAM SELECTION – The U.S. teams is selected by the United States Golf Association while the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, Scotland, selects the team from Great Britain and Ireland.

MEET THE 2005 U.S. TEAM – The U.S. team, captained by Bob Lewis, 61, of Pepper Pike, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, consists of the following players:

USA PRONUNCIATION KEY – Kyle Reifers (RYE-fers)

LEWIS AND THE WALKER CUP – Bob Lewis, 61, of Pepper Pike, Ohio, played on four victorious Walker Cup teams for the USA – in 1981, 1983, 1985 and 1987.  He also was captain of the 2003 USA Walker Cup team.  He compiled a career 5-2 record in both singles and foursomes play.  Only eight golfers have been named to more USA Walker Cup teams than Lewis.  Lewis is president and chief operating officer of Welded Tubes, Inc., a manufacturer of welded steel tubing, a company founded by his father in 1958.

LEWIS IN USGA CHAMPIONSHIPS – Bob Lewis was runner-up at three USGA championships, including the 1980 U.S. Amateur, where, at age 35, he lost to Hal Sutton at the Country Club of North Carolina, 9 and 8.  He also was runner-up at the 1981 and 1983 U.S. Mid-Amateur Championships.  He has qualified for the last three USGA Senior Amateur championships (age 55 and older).

 MEET THE GREAT BRITAIN/IRELAND TEAM – The GB&I team, captained by Garth McGimpsey, 50, of Bangor, Ireland, consists of the following players:

Note:  Gary Wolstenholme is playing on his sixth consecutive Walker Cup squad for GB&I.  He has enjoyed team victories in 1995, 1999, 2001 and 2003.  Overall, Wolstenholme is 5-3 in foursomes and 4-5 in singles play.  Nigel Edwards is playing on his third Walker Cup team, having also been selected for the GB&I squad in 2001 and 2003.  He was 2-0-2 combined in 2003.  He was 0-1 in 2001, losing his singles match on the first day.  Overall, he is 1-0-1 in foursomes and 1-1-1 in singles.

“This is a big milestone in my career,” Fisher told Golfweek writer Alistair Tait.  “Making the Walker Cup is high on everyone's list, but I did not think this would come so soon.”

MCGIMPSEY AND THE WALKER CUP – Garth McGimpsey of Bangor, Ireland, won the British Amateur in 1985 and was named to three GB&I Walker Cup teams (1985, 1989 and 1991).  He runs a sporting goods distribution business in Bangor.

2003 RECAP – The Great Britain and Ireland squad won five of the eight afternoon singles matches and halved another on the last day as it rallied from two points down to capture its four consecutive win, 12½ to 11½ .  In the closing two matches, reigning British Amateur champion Stuart Manley beat USA's Trip Kuehne, and Nigel Edwards halved USA's Lee Williams.  The USA had built a 7-5 lead after the first day and held a 9-7 advantage heading into the final singles matches.  Brock Mackenzie of Yakima, Wash., went 3-0 for the USA.  He was the only player to go undefeated on either squad.

2001 RECAP – Luke Donald, Nick Dougherty and then reigning British Amateur champion Michael Hoey each won twice on the last day (Sunday) to rally the Great Britain and Ireland team to a 15-9 win over the USA team at Ocean Forest Golf Club in Sea Island, Ga.  GB&I won six matches and halved another out of the eight singles matches on Sunday afternoon to pull away.  GB&I had lead by just 8½ to 7½ after the morning foursomes.  The USA team led 6½ to 5½ after play on Saturday.

1928 RECAP AT CHICAGO GOLF CLUB – Robert Jones was the playing captain and driving force behind the USA team's one-sided 11-1 win.  At the time, four 36-hole foursomes were played on the first day followed by eight 36-hole singles matches on the next day.  The USA squad was a perfect 4-0 after the foursomes.  Jones won his singles match by a record margin, 13 and 12.  Other notable players for the USA were Chick Evans, Watts Gunn, Francis Ouimet and Jess Sweetser.  

CHICAGO GOLF CLUB – Chicago Golf Club has a rich history that includes being one of the five founding member clubs of the USGA.  Its founder, Charles Macdonald, won the 1895 U.S. Amateur.  The highly-acclaimed layout has been host to 10 USGA championships since 1897, including three U.S. Opens.  The most recent USGA championship at Chicago Golf Club was the 1979 USGA Senior Amateur.

Year and Championship (Winner)

• 1897 U.S. Open – Joe Lloyd
• 1897 U.S. Amateur – H.J. Whigham
• 1900 U.S. Open – Harry Vardon
• 1903 U.S. Women's Amateur – Bessie Anthony
• 1905 U.S. Amateur – H. Chandler Egan
• 1909 U.S. Amateur – Robert Gardner
• 1911 U.S. Open – John McDermott
• 1912 U.S. Amateur – Jerome Travers
• 1928 Walker Cup Match – USA, 11-1
• 1979 USGA Senior Amateur – William Campbell

HISTORY OF THE WALKER CUP – The Walker Cup Match began in the wake of World War I and it came together formally following a series of meetings with the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, whose purpose was largely to look at modifying the Rules of the game.  As part of the meeting, an international team competition was discussed, much like what was already taking place between the United States and Canada, in 1919 and 1920.

Among those attending the meeting at the R&A was George Herbert Walker, USGA President in 1920.  The idea of an amateur team competition appealed to Walker and he soon presented a plan and offered to donate a trophy.  When the press dubbed the trophy the Walker Cup, the name stuck.

The first Walker Cup Match was held in 1922 at the National Golf Links of America in Southampton, N.Y.  Led by captain (coach) William C. Fownes Jr., the United States won the inaugural Match, 8-4.

MEDIA CENTER STAFF – The USGA media relations contacts on site Craig Smith, Pete Kowalski and Suzanne Colson.  The Media Center will be operational as of Aug. 11 and the phone number there is (630) 665-3718.