Americans just love Royal Dornoch

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This year’s Walker Cup is at St Andrews, September 2-3, with the 50th edition of the famous fixture taking place at Cypress Point in California 2025.
Thereafter, the list of American venues reads as follows: Bandon Dunes, 2028 (after the match goes back to even years in 2026), Oakmont 2032, and Chicago Golf Club 2036, all of which is prompting a series of questions as to which GB&I venue is playing host in 2026.
For now, the best guess is Royal Dornoch, the links which is described as follows in the Shell International Encyclopedia of Golf: “Given a less remote setting, Royal Dornoch might easily have housed an Open Championship.”
Donald Ross, shown at Pinehurst in the 1930s, was born in Dornoch in 1872. Photo: Courtesy USGA Archives
How the American golf cognoscenti would love it were the Walker Cup to be held in this highland haven — and not least because of the Pinehurst connection. Donald Ross, who was born in Dornoch in 1872 and died in Pinehurst in 1948, designed some 500 courses in the U.S....