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New sponsorship deal
for Walker Cup
Britain and Ireland's Walker
Cup team have agreed a new sponsorship deal worth up to £7m.
Captain Peter McEvoy believes the cash will help his young amateurs continue to
dominate their American counterparts.
There will be an immediate
£600,000 injection which could increase to £3m in the short-term and
£7m ultimately.
The money is being put up
by the English Golf Union and some of its commercial partners as part of a package
called 'Golf England'.
Britain and Ireland's current
team have changed the face of international amateur golf.
In 2003 they could make
it a hat-trick of victories over America after beating them at home in 1999 and
this year in Georgia.
That second triumph made
Englishman McEvoy the most successful Britain and Ireland captain and the first
to retain the Walker Cup.
"It was a marvellous
feeling a little while ago when I heard that the USGA were to conduct an enquiry
into what has gone wrong with American amateur golf," McEvoy said.
"I've instilled into
the lads that it's the opposition that have something to fear. It's the view the
England World Cup soccer team should be taking."
McEvoy's most ambitious
course design, Desert Springs, will be the winter training headquarters for England's
amateurs.
The course was hewn out
of scrub and desert near Almeria in Spain.
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