After captaining the U.S. to a one-point victory at the 2005 Walker Cup at Chicago Golf Club, Bob Lewis proclaimed the match “the greatest Walker Cup ever played.”
There is an argument to be made, of course, and such debate now must include the match that took place two years later at Royal County Down, where the Americans led by Dustin Johnson and a cast of future major winners and PGA Tour stars edged Rory McIlroy and Co. by a point.
But regardless of where you rank 2005, it’s at least up there.
Entering the match at Chicago Golf Club, the Americans had lost three straight Walker Cups and hadn’t lifted the hardware since 1997 at Quaker Ridge.