So it does, Pat, indeed......... And on Friday evening, Sept.6th, the US and GB & I flags will be raised on the magnificent flagpole on the bluff above Peconic Bay in front of the assembled USGA and R & A committees, past and present, and The Walker Cup will have finally come home - 85 years later - to its inaugural venue. Old Tom Morris and his onetime pupil when at St. Andrews University, Charles Blair Macdonald, will surely be together smiling down as the flags are slowly raised. And Bobby Jones will be with them, recalling what he called the greatest round of golf he ever played - level par at 73 in a cold and misting north wind during the practice round. And so will be George Herbert Walker, USGA President in 1920 whose idea it was to create the competition at his home club and among whose direct descendants are Bush 41 and 43. And finally, perhaps if one watches them long enough, the head busts of the twelve original Founders along the hallway going from the foyer to the great room might be seen to smile ever so slightly.