{"id":354321,"date":"2025-08-18T14:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354321\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:13:14","slug":"ian-poulters-son-luke-to-play-for-great-britain-and-ireland-in-walker-cup-live-on-sky-sports-in-september-golf-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354321\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Poulter&#8217;s son Luke to play for Great Britain and Ireland in Walker Cup, live on Sky Sports in September | Golf News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Poulter&#8217;s son Luke has been selected in the Great Britain and Ireland team for the Walker Cup against USA.<\/p>\n<p>Luke, 21, will form part of a 10-strong squad for the 50th staging of the event at Cypress Point in California across September 6-7, live on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Poulter Jr recently contributed 3.5 points from four outings in Great Britain and Ireland&#8217;s 16.5-18.5 victory over the Continent of Europe in the St Andrews Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>He also made the knockout stages of the US Amateur and narrowly missed out on qualifying for the US Open after losing in a play-off, while he claimed a first collegiate victory for the Florida Gators in March, winning the Schenkel Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/skysports-ian-poulter-ryder-cup_6971830.jpg\"   alt=\"during the final day singles matches of the 2018 Ryder Cup at Le Golf National on September 30, 2018 in Paris, France.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Luke&#8217;s father Ian Poulter is a Ryder Cup legend, playing in seven editions between 2004 and 2021<\/p>\n<p>Great Britain and Ireland have been beaten in the last four Walker Cups, last winning the biennial amateur tournament at Royal Lytham &amp; St Annes back in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>This year, GB&amp;I will be captained by former European Tour winner Dean Robertson.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron Adam, Elliot Baker, Dominic Clemons, Charlie Forster, Connor Graham, Stuart Grehan, Niall Shiels Donegan, Gavin Tiernan and Tyler Weaver join Poulter in the squad, with Caolan Rafferty selected as a reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Graham is the only returning player from the team that lost 14.5-11.5 to USA at St Andrews in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the 2025 Walker Cup live on Sky Sports across September 6-7. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/membership\/watch-sky-sports?DCMP=ilc_skysports_nc_articlelink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stream golf and more without a contract.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian Poulter&#8217;s son Luke has been selected in the Great Britain and Ireland team for the Walker Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-354321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115050185064092124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}