"As far as I can tell the US only won two team matches total. They played one match at each venue for a total of 12 matches. But I'm not sure about that. Whatever the exact final score, the O&C squad dominated."
BobC:
Lest anyone today think that O-C Tour was some real proof that GB amateurs were better than US amateurs at that time, they should check out all the commentary over about 4-5 months on it in GOLF Magazine. There was quite a bit of arguing over it before the O-C team arrived about who could or should play for the American teams.
Apparently van Tassel Sutphen was imbued with some pretty heavy national pride and claimed that it wasn't right that a O-C team made up of O-C graduates should be taking on only American school and college boys for the simple reason that even if the college golfers sure did have potential and some good results they were far from as seasoned as some of the older O-C team players were in competitive golf. I think Alison was one of the few or maybe the only O-C team undergrad, right?
To van Tassel Sutphen's protestations some on the other side shot back that the O-C team was by no means a representation of the best GB amateurs anyway!
I have no idea who played for Philadelphia against the O-C team but looking at the results (11-0) they should've all just stayed in bed and forfeited the entire match as it wouldn't have changed the outcome any!
Although one never really knows about something like that as one time I stayed in bed (as the story goes) during a better-ball match (in the AJDP Tournament) and my partner went out there alone and cleaned the clock of the other team all by himself. That made him locally famous enough that apparently the president of PVGC heard about it and said he had to have a guy like that as a member immediately.
Actually the story is even better than him cleaning the clock alone of another team (even though I don't know all the details that well
because my whereabouts need to remain something of a classified National secret for at least another century
).
After he did that in the first match he had to go out again in the afternoon!!
About 3/4 of the way through the second match (after our caddie had ditched my clubs in the bushes finally realizing I probably wasn't going to show) the other team got dormie (five and five). At that point my partner apparently loudly proclaimed to the crowd who had flowed out of the woodwork to observe this historic event: "OK, YOU GUYS ARE REALLY IN TROUBLE NOW!" and he proceeded to go birdie, birdie, birdie and get them back to (two up with two to play) at which point they all made par on #17 and it was over.
I'm told the crowd damn near carried my partner up the par 5 18th hole on their shoulders and he entered that salubrious world of instant local fame for a time!
The residual and lasting problem unfortunately was the team he took out in the morning were a couple of pretty significant people around here and even if everyone else seemed to be amused they most certainly were NOT!
Sometimes they still try to ask me where in the hell I was but I either plead the Fifth or just tell them I'm too old now to remember!