GOLFWEEK STAFFGlasgow Golf Club’s Gailes Links will host the 2008 Palmer Cup presented by Monster, the Golf Coaches Association of America announced.
The annual Ryder Cup-style competition between the best collegians in the United States and Europe will be played June 26-27 on the 6,903-yard, par-71 Willie Park, Jr., design.
The Americans lead the series, 6-4-1, after winning the 2007 competition, 18-6, at Caves Valley Golf Club in Maryland. The U.S. lost, 19.5-4.5, in 2006, the last time the competition was held in Europe.
Glasgow Golf Club, founded in 1787, is the ninth-oldest golf club in the world; it owns two courses, Killermont in Bearsden, Glasgow, and Gailes Links in Ayrshire. The Gailes Links course was inaugurated in 1892 and lies in the heart of Scotland’s Ayrshire Golf Coast, only a few miles from Turnberry and Royal Troon.
Willie Park, Jr., was the 1887 and 1889 British Open champion and also designed Olympia Fields’ North Course, which hosted the 2003 U.S. Open.
The first Palmer Cup was held at Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club & Lodge in 1997, and has been played at other prestigious sites such as St. Andrews Old and New Courses, The Honors Course, Royal Liverpool, Baltusrol, Ballybunion, Whistling Straits, Prestwick Golf Club and Caves Valley.
Past participants include Ben Curtis, Luke Donald, Charles Howell III, Matt Kuchar, Hunter Mahan, D.J. Trahan, Ryan Moore and J.B. Holmes.
Posted: 2/7/2008
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