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Patrick_Mucci

Re: Seminole GC to Host 2021 Walker Cup
« Reply #50 on: November 13, 2013, 07:46:21 PM »

Quite a of run of US clubs hosting.

Maybe Pine Valley or CPC next?

Would love to see Prairie Dunes get a chance as well.

Pine Valley (1985) and CPC (1981) have already hosted the Walker Cup, thus I don't see a return to either site.

Prairie Dunes would be an interesting venue.

A little remote, but interesting.


It's 45 mins away from a commercial airport smack dab in the middle of the country.

A commercial airport that only services nine (9) other U.S. Airports non-stop.
Phoenix
Minneapolis
LA
Las Vegas
Houston
Denver
Dallas
Chicago
Atlanta

Not a direct flight from Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. or other large cities


10 mins away from a municipal airport you can fly your G5 into as well ;)

Now, Kansas might not be where you want to spend a ton of time, but logistically it's not bad at all.

It's remote......... bordering on unfeasible.

There have been distant sites in the past, but, I'd imagine that other sites offer more tangential benefits,


Steve Scott

Re: Seminole GC to Host 2021 Walker Cup
« Reply #51 on: November 13, 2013, 08:40:08 PM »
Steve,

If the dates really are late April, as Pat has suggested but not confirmed, the selection committee will have to rely heavily on the prior year's results. This falls before NCAA's or even Regionals in 2021. Basically zero chance of a mid-am or Northern College player playing their way on to the team with a great performance over the final month or so of selection.

Sure, the top 20 or so players will be known and pretty much the same, but picking the ones most likely on form will be near impossible.

Why would the Spring be better than the late fall?

http://www.golfclubatlas.com/forum/index.php/topic,57143.0.html


Golf course wise the course is way better in late April or early May.  I was fortunate enough to caddie there for two seasons over ten years ago and have played there many times since and it always plays firm and fast that time of year given the usual lack of rain as compared to the summer months.  Team wise the best players most likely will get picked but it the selection committee will have limited big events just prior to that to help pick....most of the team are college guys and will have been playing all spring anyway.  As far as mid ams, nobody typically gives them a chance anyway (look at this year) but they came up big for the US in securing the cup.  Good players are going to be picked and those players will be ready.