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The Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested biennially in odd numbered years between teams comprising the leading amateur golfers of the United States and Great Britain and Ireland. The event, officially called the Walker Cup Match (not "Matches", unlike the professional Ryder Cup Matches), is co-organised by the R&A and the United States Golf Association, and is named in honor of George Herbert Walker (grandfather and namesake of the George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States and great-grandfather of George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States), who was president of the USGA in 1920 when the series was initiated. There was an unofficial event in 1921 at Royal Liverpool and annual events to 1924. From that time on it became a biennial event, and after World War Two it switched to odd numbered years. It is played alternately on either side of the Atlantic. Half points for matches finishing even were awarded for the first time in 1971.

The Match employs a combination of foursomes (alternate-shot) and singles competition and was originally the format used for the professional equivalent Ryder Cup, which also began as a competition between the U.S. and the United Kingdom; unlike the Ryder Cup, the Walker Cup has never been expanded to make all European amateur golfers eligible to compete. There is little present competitive reason to do so: although the United States leads the series 34 to 8, with one halved match, through 2011, the two teams have been far more evenly matched in recent decades. Starting with the 1989 Match in which Team GB&I ended Team USA's eight-match winning streak, both teams are tied at 6–6. The 1989 Match and the three matches between 2003 and 2007 were all decided by one point.

Results[link]

Year	Venue	Winning Team	Score		Losing Team	Captains
2011	Royal Aberdeen Golf Club	Great Britain &  Ireland	14	12	United States	Jim Holtgrieve  Nigel Edwards
2009	Merion Golf Club	United States	16½	9½	Great Britain &  Ireland	Buddy Marucci  Colin Dalgleish
2007	Royal County Down Golf Club	United States	12½	11½	Great Britain &  Ireland	Buddy Marucci  Colin Dalgleish
2005	Chicago Golf Club	United States	12½	11½	Great Britain &  Ireland	Bob Lewis  Garth McGimpsey
2003	Ganton Golf Club	Great Britain &  Ireland	12½	11½	United States	Bob Lewis  Garth McGimpsey
2001	Ocean Forest Golf Club	Great Britain &  Ireland	15	9	United States	Danny Yates  Peter McEvoy
1999	Nairn Golf Club	Great Britain &  Ireland	15	9	United States	Danny Yates  Peter McEvoy
1997	Quaker Ridge Golf Club	United States	18	6	Great Britain &  Ireland	Downing Gray  Clive Brown
1995	Royal Porthcawl Golf Club	Great Britain &  Ireland	14	10	United States	Downing Gray  Clive Brown
1993	Interlachen Country Club	United States	19	5	Great Britain &  Ireland	Vinny Giles  George MacGregor
1991	Portmarnock Golf Club	United States	14	10	Great Britain &  Ireland	Jim Gabrielsen  George MacGregor
1989	Peachtree Golf Club	Great Britain &  Ireland	12½	11½	United States	Fred Ridley  Geoffrey Marks
1987	Sunningdale Golf Club	United States	16½	7½	Great Britain &  Ireland	Fred Ridley  Geoffrey Marks
1985	Pine Valley Golf Club	United States	13	11	Great Britain &  Ireland	Jay Sigel  Charles Wilson Green
1983	Royal Liverpool Golf Club	United States	13½	10½	Great Britain &  Ireland	Jay Sigel  Charles Wilson Green
1981	Cypress Point Club	United States	15	9	Great Britain &  Ireland	Jim Gabrielsen  Rodney Foster
1979	Muirfield	United States	15½	8½	Great Britain &  Ireland	Dick Siderowf  Rodney Foster
1977	Shinnecock Hills Golf Club	United States	16	8	Great Britain &  Ireland	Lewis Oehmig  Sandy Saddler
1975	Old Course at St Andrews	United States	15½	8½	Great Britain &  Ireland	Edgar Updegraff  David Marsh
1973	The Country Club	United States	14	10	Great Britain &  Ireland	Jess Sweetser  David Marsh
1971	Old Course at St Andrews	Great Britain &  Ireland	13	11	United States	John M. Winters  Michael Bonallack
1969	Milwaukee Country Club	United States	10	8	Great Britain &  Ireland	Billy Joe Patton  Michael Bonallack
1967	Royal St George's Golf Club	United States	13	7	Great Britain &  Ireland	Jess Sweetser  Joe Carr
1965	Baltimore Country Club	United States	11	11	Great Britain &  Ireland	John Fischer  Joe Carr
1963	Turnberry	United States	12	8	Great Britain &  Ireland	Richard Tufts  Charles Lawrie
1961	Seattle Golf Club	United States	11	1	Great Britain &  Ireland	Jack Westland  Charles Lawrie
1959	Muirfield	United States	9	3	Great Britain &  Ireland	Charles Coe  Gerald Micklem
1957	The Minikahda Club	United States	8½	3½	Great Britain &  Ireland	Charles Coe  Gerald Micklem
1955	Old Course at St Andrews	United States	10	2	Great Britain &  Ireland	William C. Campbell  G. Alec Hill
1953	The Kittansett Club	United States	9	3	Great Britain &  Ireland	Charles R. Yates  A. A. Duncan
1951	Royal Birkdale Golf Club	United States	7½	4½	Great Britain &  Ireland	Willie Turnesa  Raymond Oppenheimer
1949	Winged Foot Golf Club	United States	10	2	Great Britain &  Ireland	Francis Ouimet  Percy Lucas
1947	Old Course at St Andrews	United States	8	4	Great Britain &  Ireland	Francis Ouimet  John B. Beck
1940-46: Not held due to World War II
1940	Town & Country Club	1940 event was awarded to The Town & Country Club of St. Paul, MN but the matches were canceled one month prior due to World War II
1938	Old Course at St Andrews	Great Britain &  Ireland	7½	4½	United States	Francis Ouimet  John B. Beck
1936	Pine Valley Golf Club	United States	10½	1½	Great Britain &  Ireland	Francis Ouimet  William Tweddell
1934	Old Course at St Andrews	United States	9½	2½	Great Britain &  Ireland	Francis Ouimet  Michael Scott
1932	The Country Club	United States	9½	2½	Great Britain &  Ireland	Francis Ouimet  T.A. Torrance
1930	Royal St George's Golf Club	United States	10	2	Great Britain &  Ireland	Bobby Jones  Roger Wethered
1928	Chicago Golf Club	United States	11	1	Great Britain &  Ireland	Bobby Jones  William Tweddell
1926	Old Course at St Andrews	United States	6½	5½	Great Britain &  Ireland	Robert A. Gardner  Robert Harris
1924	Garden City Golf Club	United States	9	3	Great Britain &  Ireland	Robert A. Gardner  Cyril Tolley
1923	Old Course at St Andrews	United States	6½	5½	Great Britain &  Ireland	Robert A. Gardner  Robert Harris
1922	National Golf Links of America	United States	8	4	Great Britain &  Ireland	William C. Fownes  Robert Harris

Future sites[link]

• 2013 – National Golf Links of America (Southampton, New York, USA)
• 2015 – Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club (Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England)
• 2017 – Los Angeles Country Club (Los Angeles, California, USA)

External links[link]

• Official site

Nigel Edwards (born 31 December 1950) is a Welsh former footballer who played as a full back. He made more than 400 Football League appearances for Chester City and Aldershot.

Playing career[link]

Born Wrexham, Edwards was signed by Chester as a youngster in September 1968 after being at Blackburn Rovers on amateur terms.^[1] After impressing in the reserve side,^[2] Edwards made his Football League debut on 23 April 1969 against Lincoln City, alongside fellow youngster Grenville Millington.^[2] The pair would go on to make more than 500 league appearances for the club between them.

By 1971–72, Edwards was first-choice right-back at Chester and the subject of constant transfer speculation,^[3] having been involved in a tour of New Zealand and the Far East with Wales the previous summer.^[4] Although he had a brief loan spell at Rotherham United in the first half of 1973–1974 while out of Chester’s first team, Edwards returned to Chester without appearing for the Millers and soon regained his place in the side.

In 1974–1975, Edwards missed just four games as Chester were promoted from Division Four and reached the Football League Cup semi-finals. Despite playing at full back, Edwards scored seven times during the season.^[3] Two years later he helped Chester reach the fifth round of the FA Cup and win the spin-off Debenhams Cup competition at the end of the season. He remained with the club until he joined Aldershot in July 1978.

After four seasons with Aldershot, Edwards returned to Chester in June 1982 with funds raised by supporters through the Seals Player Appeal Fund.^[5] He marked his first league game back with the winning goal against Crewe Alexandra,^[5] but he made just seven more league appearances and moved on to Oswestry Town the following year.^[6]

In May 2004, 53-year old Edwards played in Chester goalkeeper Wayne Brown’s testimonial at Deva Stadium.^[7]

Honours[link]

Chester

• Football League Fourth Division promotion as fourth placed team: 1974–1975.

• Football League Cup semi-finalists: 1974–1975.

• Debenhams Cup winners: 1976–1977.

References[link]

James Driscoll
Personal information
Born	(1977-10-09) October 9, 1977 (age 34) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	185 lb (84 kg)
Nationality	United States
Career
College	University of Virginia
Turned professional	2001
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour
Professional wins	1
Number of wins by tour
Nationwide Tour	1
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament	CUT: 2001
U.S. Open	CUT: 2005
The Open Championship	CUT: 2009
PGA Championship	DNP

James Driscoll (born October 9, 1977) is an American professional golfer and current player on the PGA Tour.

Driscoll was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest of seven children. He grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts outside of Boston. He started golf at a young age and won the Club Championship at his home club of Charles River age 15. James won the Massachusetts Junior Championship a year later. He then went on to defeat the state's best golfers at the Massachusetts State Amateur Championship in 1996 at the age of 18 and then again in 1998.^[1] He was the youngest winner ever of the Massachusetts Amateur and showed much promise at a young age. By the summer of 1996 James was the second-ranked junior in the country, and that is when he made his first cameo on the national stage, losing the final of the U.S. Junior to Scott Hailes.^[2]

Driscoll attended The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut,^[3] and went on to the University of Virginia where he was named to the Virginia first-team All-State golf team his senior year.^[4] He lost to Jeff Quinney in the finals of the 2000 U.S. Amateur at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey. He had upset Englishman Luke Donald in the semifinals 2&1 and made an inspiring comeback in the final being 3 down with three to play. Driscoll was eventually defeated on the 39th hole by Quinney. His runner-up finish gave him an invitation to the 2001 Masters Tournament. He was member the 2001 Walker Cup team. At the 2001 Masters Driscoll fired a 68 in the first round, marking the best opening round by an amateur since Ken Venturi's 66 in 1956. His playing partner Tom Watson said, "This was the best round I've seen here by an amateur."^[5] Driscoll would go on to miss the cut.

Driscoll turned professional in 2001. He won his first and only professional event at the 2004 Nationwide Tour event the Virginia Beach Open. He has been on and off the PGA Tour for a couple years, but his top 25 finish on the 2007 Nationwide Tour money list has given him PGA Tour membership for 2008. Driscoll was runner-up at the PGA Tour's Zurich Classic of New Orleans in 2005. James lost to Tim Petrovic in a sudden-death playoff after missing a birdie putt on the final green of regulation for the win. He had his second runner-up finish on the 2009 Valero Texas Open, losing to Zach Johnson in a sudden-death playoff.

Amateur wins (9)[link]

• 1993 Massachusetts Junior Amateur Championship
• 1994 Hornblower Memorial Tournament
• 1995 New England Amateur, Western Junior
• 1996 Massachusetts Amateur
• 1998 Massachusetts Amateur, Golf Digest Invitational
• 1999 North and South Amateur, Hornblower Memorial Tournament

Professional wins (1)[link]

PGA Tour playoff record (0-2)

Nationwide Tour (1)[link]

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	Sep 12, 2004	Virginia Beach Open	-15 (70-69-66-68=273)	4 strokes	Jason Buha, Kyle Thompson, Jimmy Walker

Results in major championships[link]

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

U.S. national team appearances[link]

Amateur

• Walker Cup: 2001

See also[link]

• 2004 Nationwide Tour graduates
• 2007 Nationwide Tour graduates
• 2010 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates

References[link]

External links[link]

• James Driscoll at the PGA Tour official site
• James Driscoll at the Official World Golf Ranking official site

Daniel Walker
Dan Walker (right) shaking hands at the 1973 Bud Billiken Parade
36th Governor of Illinois
In office January 8, 1973 – January 10, 1977
Lieutenant	Neil Hartigan
Preceded by	Richard B. Ogilvie
Succeeded by	James R. Thompson
Personal details
Born	(1922-08-06) August 6, 1922 (age 89) Washington, D.C.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Roberta Dowse Roberta Nelson Lillian, 3rd wife
Residence	Escondido, California
Profession	Lawyer / Paralegal, Politician
Religion	Methodist[1]

Daniel Walker (born August 6, 1922) was the 36th Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1973 to 1977.

Early life and career[link]

Walker was born in Washington, D.C. and raised near San Diego, California. He was the second Governor of Illinois to graduate from the United States Naval Academy. He served as a naval officer in World War II and the Korean War.^[2] A graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, Walker later became an executive for Montgomery Ward while pursuing anti-machine Democratic politics in Chicago.

Walker served as a clerk for Chief Justice of the United States Fred M. Vinson and was an aide to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson and campaign chairman for the 1970 Senate campaign of Stevenson's son Adlai Stevenson III. He rose to prominence as author of Rights in Conflict, his report on the disturbances of the 1968 Democratic Convention, calling some of the police activities a “police riot.”^[3]

Illinois Governor[link]

Walker announced his candidacy for Governor of Illinois in 1971 and attracted wide attention by walking 1,197 miles (1,926 km) across Illinois in 1971. ^[4] He narrowly won the Democratic primary by upsetting then-Lt. Governor Paul Simon, who had been endorsed by the Daley Machine. In November, he defeated incumbent Republican Richard B. Ogilvie by a 51% to 49% margin and at one point in the early 1970s had presidential aspirations.

The enmity between Walker and Mayor Richard J. Daley's political organization was deep. In 1974, Walker supported legislative candidates against Daley allies. Walker's deputy governor, Victor deGrazia, later said: "... I knew from the beginning that every time Daley looked at Walker, he saw the Church of England and the British suppression of the Irish, and when Dan would look at Daley, he would see the quintessential politician who was only interested in political gain."^[5]

"We never established anything even approaching a personal rapport. To some degree, this was an obvious and natural result of my independent political activity. But it went deeper ---- much deeper," said Walker.^{[citation needed]}

During his tenure, Walker fought constantly with both Republicans and “Daley Machine Democrats” in the legislature. He did obtain passage of the first law requiring disclosure of campaign contributions and issued a series of executive orders prohibiting corrupt practices by state employees.

In 1976 Walker was defeated in the Democratic primary, losing to Secretary of State Michael Howlett, the candidate supported by Mayor Daley, by a 54% to 46% margin. In the general election, Howlett was overwhelmingly defeated by James R. Thompson.

Post political career and criminal conviction[link]

In the 1980s, Walker entered the private sector with Butler-Walker, Inc, a chain of self-named quick oil change franchises later bought by Jiffy Lube^[6] and a pair of troubled Savings and Loans. In 1987, he was convicted of a loan impropriety related to the First American Savings & Loan Association of Oak Brook. Media at the time inaccurately reported he received over a million dollars in fraudulent loans for his business and repairs on his yacht, the Governor's Lady. The actual amount was $45,000. ^{[7] [8]} Walker served as director, and a subsidiary of that association made many loans to franchisees of First American to enable building of their centers. All these loans were approved by the Federal and State regulatory agencies to which First American was subject.

In 1987, Walker was charged with bank fraud based on two loans. A private contractor borrowed $279,000 from First American to build schools. Walker later personally borrowed $45,000 from that individual on a "handshake" basis. Those two loans—constituting "borrowing from a borrower" while serving as a director—were the unlawful "bank fraud" set forth in the formal plea agreement signed by Walker when he pleaded guilty. The agreement was approved by the United States District Court judge handling the case. (USDC ND Ill). Walker was sentenced to four years in prison on this charge. There were two other charges against Walker, one for perjury based on dealings by the Association with his son and the other for filing false financial statements. The first was given a three-year sentence and probation ordered on the second, all sentences to be served consecutively. After Walker had served eighteen months in prison on the bank fraud charge, the trial judge ordered that the former governor be released from prison based on "time served" and placed on probation until the two loans in question were repaid. This order eliminated the two other charges.

As to First American, it was declared insolvent and taken over by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. It continued in business as before, run by individuals brought in by FSLIC. There were no bondholders of First American and Walker and his wife were the only stockholders. When the two loans described above were repaid, Walker was released from probation and the case against him was closed. There was no cost to taxpayers for the loans. ^[9]

None of the charges against Walker on which he was given the seven year sentence as detailed in the Plea Agreement involved any loans other than the two described above. The contemporaneous media accounts to the contrary were erroneous. Loans by First American and its subsidiary on which those accounts were based were never charged with being fraudulent as the media stories stated. None were mentioned in the above-described Plea Agreement's statement of the bank fraud charge to which Walker pleaded guilty.^[10]

At his sentencing, U.S. District Judge Ann Williams stated, "It's clear to this court that a pattern was established and that you, Mr. Walker, thought this bank was your own personal piggy bank to bail you out whenever you got into trouble."^[8] To put Walker’s actions into further perspective, however, Neil Bush approved unsecured loans of a hundred million dollars to two of his business partners in the disastrous Silverado Savings and Loan debacle that ultimately cost taxpayers 1.3 billion dollars. The Attorney General of the United States ruled that this "borrowing from a borrower," which was Walker's main offense, was a violation of the regulations but not a violation of law. Neil Bush never faced criminal prosecution. See Savings_and_loan_crisis#Silverado_Savings_and_Loan and Neil_Bush#Silverado_Savings_.26_Loan

In January 2001 Walker requested a pardon from outgoing President Bill Clinton, but his request was not granted.^[11]

Walker became the second of four Governors of Illinois in the 20th and 21st Century to be convicted on federal criminal charges. The other three were Otto Kerner, Jr., George Ryan, and Rod Blagojevich. However, unlike Kerner, Ryan, and Blagojevich, Walker's crimes were not related to his term as Governor.

Family[link]

Walker was married in 1947 to Roberta Dowse, a Catholic school teacher from Kenosha, Wisconsin. They had seven children, three boys--Daniel Jr., Charles, and William--and four girls, Kathleen, Julie, Roberta, and Margaret. They were divorced in 1977. Roberta Dowse-Walker died in December 2006 from colon cancer.^[12] Walker later married Roberta Nelson, who was 14 years his junior, and was divorced in 1989 while he was in prison. In 2007 he resided in Escondido, California, with his third wife, Lillian. Currently, he resides in a condominium complex in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico.^[13]

Author[link]

In 2007, Southern Illinois University Press released The Maverick and the Machine: Governor Dan Walker Tells His Story,^[14] in which Walker commented on his business and law troubles, saying "I knew this was against regulations, but, like most businessmen, I saw a huge difference between a law and a regulation." In the book he speaks of his experiences in jail as well as in the political sphere.^[15] He also authored The First Hundred Years A.D. 1-100: Failures and Successes of Christianity's Beginning^[16] and Thirst for Independence: The San Diego Water Story.^[17] He has several other writing projects in the works, including A Government Gone Bad, an Historical Account of the Mob and the Machine, focusing on corrupt politicians and outlaws in Illinois.^[18]

See also[link]

	Biography portal
	World War II portal
	United States portal

• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States

References[link]

External links[link]

• Oral History Project at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Dan Walker Oral History and Victor deGrazia Oral History

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