"appearance in the sport, matched only by France. The British squad included only one team, with no gymnasts competing in the individual all-around. The team came in last place of the five competing countries. Four pentathletes represented Great Britain in 1920. It was the nation's second appearance in the sport, having competed in both instances of the Olympic pentathlon. Great Britain competed in the Olympic polo tournament for the third time, the only nation to have competed in each edition of the competition to that point (and, eventually, the entire time polo was played at the Olympics). Great Britain fielded"
"19.03.1878). In 1909 James Montaudevert Waterbury, Jr., Lawrence Waterbury, Harry Payne Whitney and Devereaux Milburn formed a team, dubbed the Big Four, that won the cup from the English. The same team was successful in 1911 and 1913, but lost the cup to England in 1914. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Westchester Cup was the most anticipated event on the sporting calendar in the United States. The cup has been won a total of 10 times by the United States and 6 times by England, including the initial 1876 match. The match was suspended in the 1940s due to"
"and Britain. This prestigious international polo tournament was played at the time when the Kentucky Derby, Wimbledon and the British Open were all new events in a sparse sporting calendar. Though the British won that first match at Westchester easily, the Americans would use the defeat as a catalyst to improve their game strategy and the quality of their horses. The Association continued the series and the United States won nine of the next eleven matches including the 1939 competition, when the tournament was played for the last time at Meadowbrook before a crowd of 40,000. The Cup was not"
"the British Universities and Colleges Sport, which operates a league competition as the British Universities American Football League. The Great Britain national American football team represents the United Kingdom in international competition. There are a number of teams under the GB Lions banner; the Men's Senior team, the Students team, the U-19 team, the women's team and men's, women's and U-19 flag football teams. Various games of the National Football League (NFL), the main professional league for the sport in the United States, have been played in the United Kingdom. The American Bowl was an NFL pre-season competition held from"
"final score of 185–78, with eight short course world records broken – all by the USA team. In March 2009 it was announced that British Swimming were looking at proposals to host a Duel in the Pool style meet between the USA and a combined European team in Manchester, dubbed the Ryder Cup of swimming. On 21 October 2009, it was announced that a Duel in the Pool will take place between a ""European select team"" and the USA in Manchester on 18 and 19 December 2009. This event will include the first competitive performance by Michael Phelps in Britain."
"tastes in sports between the UK and the US is motorsport, In the UK: Formula 1, rallying and speedway are popular. While in the US, the main popular motorsports are NASCAR and the Indianapolis 500. There are currently three Americans in the FA's Premier League: Geoff Cameron, Danny Williams & DeAndre Yedlin. All play for the U. S. national team. While there are 14 English and two Scottish players currently playing in the Major League Soccer. None of the English or Scottish players play for their national teams. The most noted Briton that is currently playing MLS is Ashley Cole,"
"Weber Cup The Weber Cup, named after bowling legend Dick Weber, is a men's ten-pin bowling competition between Team Europe and Team USA. The teams competing over three days in a series of singles, doubles and team (baker) matches. The Weber Cup is equivalent to the Ryder Cup in golf. The Weber Cup is the annual Europe vs United States ten-pin bowling championships and is currently broadcast live from start to finish on Sky Sports in the UK and in many other international channels around the world. It usually takes place in October every year. For the first 7 events,"
"toward their team total. The team that accumulates at least 10½ points wins the competition. In the event of a tie, the current holder retains the Cup. Eight players for the Great Britain & Ireland and USA participated in the event plus one non-playing captain for each team. The Great Britain & Ireland team was selected by the Selection Panel of the LGU in March 2012. Five of the American team were selected in December 2011 (Anderson, Duncan, Ernst, Lua and Pancake). The remaining three members of the team (McCloskey, Popson and Tubert) were announced in January 2012. 2012 Curtis"
"was dominated by the United States, but recent results have reflected the increasing globalisation of women's golf, with six different winners in six events from 1996 to 2006, and several top two placings by teams from Asia, including three wins by South Korea. The equivalent ""World Amateur Team Championship"" for men is the Eisenhower Trophy. Source: The ""Great Britain & Ireland"" team represented the two separate independent countries of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland from 1966 to 2004. This is the designation of the team which plays the United States in the Curtis Cup. From 2006, England,"
"the first two days. The team size was increased from 9 to 10 in 1988 and the format has been unchanged since then, the only variation being the order of the foursomes or fourballs on the first two days. United States have won 17 times, Great Britain & Ireland 7 times with 4 ties. PGA Cup The PGA Cup is a men's golf competition for club professionals played between a Great Britain and Ireland team and a United States team. The winning team is presented with the Llandudno Trophy. The competition is run by the British PGA and the PGA"
"United Kingdom, particularly British rock bands such as The Beatles and Herman's Hermits, The Rolling Stones, while its American precursor, the blues, greatly influenced British electric rock. Despite sports being a major cultural interest in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The most popular team sports in each country, which are in the UK: football (soccer), rugby union, rugby league and cricket and the US: [American] football, baseball, ice hockey and basketball are considered minor sports in either other country. However, there is a growing interest the other countries sports in each other country. Another area of differing"
"PGA Cup The PGA Cup is a men's golf competition for club professionals played between a Great Britain and Ireland team and a United States team. The winning team is presented with the Llandudno Trophy. The competition is run by the British PGA and the PGA of America. It was first played in 1973 and was an annual event until 1984, after which it became biennial. The 2017 PGA Cup, the 28th contest, was held on the Longcross course at Foxhills Golf Club, Ottershaw, Surrey from 15 to 17 September and was won by Great Britain and Ireland by a"
"are not played. Rather, each side earns ½ a point toward their team total. The team that accumulates at least 10½ points wins the competition. In the event of a tie, the current holder retains the Cup. Eight players for the USA and Great Britain & Ireland participated in the event plus one non-playing captain for each team. The American team was selected by the USGA’s International Team Selection Committee. Two members of the Great Britain & Ireland team were selected automatically, the top two in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) as of April 25, 2018. The remaining six"
"Bestwick, Jonathan Hall, Abdillah Jama, Terence Bywater, Jon Pollock, Simon Munn Matt Byrne, Andrew Blake, Peter Finbow, Colin Price, Stuart Jellows, Ade Adepitan, Jonathan Pollock, Simon Munn, Terry Bywater, Kevin Hayes, Fred Howley, Sinclair Thomas Great Britain men's national wheelchair basketball team The Great Britain men's national wheelchair basketball team is the men's wheelchair basketball side that represents Great Britain in international competitions. Great Britain has competed at every men's wheelchair basketball tournament at the Paralympic Games since the first tournament in 1960. <nowiki>#</nowiki>4 Gaz Choudhry, #5 Simon Brown, #6 Kevin Hayes, #7 Terry Bywater, #8 Simon Munn, #9 Jon"
"the USGA’s International Team Selection Committee. The Great Britain & Ireland team was selected by the LGU in April 2010. 2010 Curtis Cup The 36th Curtis Cup Match was played from June 11 to 13, 2010 at Essex County Club in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. The United States won 12½ to 7½. The Great Britain and Ireland team led 3½ to 2½ after the first day but the Americans won all 6 matches on the second day and, with the singles matches being shared, won comfortably. The Great Britain and Ireland team included 15-year-old twins, Lisa and Leona Maguire. The contest was"
"to accommodate low handicap golfers. Westchester Country Club hosted the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship in 1923. The club hosted its first PGA tournament in 1963 with the Thunderbird Classic. The Thunderbird was also held at Westchester in 1964 and 1965. There was no PGA tournament at Westchester Country Club in 1966, and starting in 1967 the Westchester Classic was an annual stop on the PGA Tour through 2007. (The tournament name has changed several times since then due to sponsorship switches, and is now called The Northern Trust.) On January 14, 2008, an article in the Journal News announced the"
"Arnold Palmer Cup The Arnold Palmer Cup is an annual team golf competition for college/university golfers. From 2018 it will be contested between a United States team and an International team representing the rest of the world. The teams consist of 12 men and 12 women. The teams are selected on the basis of nationality, not according to the location of the players' universities. From its foundation in 1997 until 2017 the event was only contested by men. From 1997 until 2002 the United States played Great Britain & Ireland while from 2003 to 2017 the United States played a"
"game of the British American Football Association National Leagues is known as the Britbowl. The winner of the Israeli Football League is determined every year in the Israel Bowl. The first to lift the Becker Trophy was the Jerusalem Lions in 2008. The championship game of the Swiss Nationalliga A is called the Swiss Bowl. It was first held in 1986. The championship game between the East Japan and West Japan champions in college football, is known as the Koshien Bowl. While the pro football championship is known as the Japan X Bowl. The winners of the Koshien and Japan"
"other country. In international team competition the United Kingdom provides a large part of the European Ryder Cup team, which has beaten the United States team in seven of the last eight events. Women's golf does not have as high a profile as the men's game, but British players, most notably Laura Davies, have found success on both the Europe-wide Ladies European Tour (LET) and the overwhelmingly dominant women's tour, the LPGA Tour in the US Through 2012, the Women's British Open was the only event recognised as a major by both the LET and the US LPGA. (The other"
"matches on the final day, a total of 20 points. Each of the 20 matches is worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match is all square after the 18th hole extra holes are not played. Rather, each side earns ½ a point toward their team total. The team that accumulates at least 10½ points wins the competition. In the event of a tie, the current holder retains the Cup. Eight players for the USA and Great Britain & Ireland participated in the event plus one non-playing captain for each team. The American team was selected by"
"World War II and was not revived until the 1990s. International Polo Cup The International Polo Cup, also called the Newport Cup and the Westchester Cup, is a trophy in polo that was created in 1876 and was played for by teams from the United States and United Kingdom. The match has varied in length over the years from a single game to the best of three games. In 1886 the two nations decided to make the polo match a continuing competition. A total of 12 matches were conducted between 1886 and 1939 between the two countries. The tournament was"
"while Warwickshire and Lancashire play in the tier 4 Lory Meagher Cup. The British Council is responsible for the seven GAA counties of Britain: Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Lancashire, London, Scotland, Warwickshire and Yorkshire. The GAA counties cover wider areas than their names suggest; the Hertfordshire County Board, for example, oversees clubs in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Oxfordshire; Gloucestershire GAA reaches into South Wales, Warwickshire GAA includes Staffordshire and Birmingham, and so on. The most popular sport is Gaelic football and some clubs are dedicated only to that sport. The history of the London branch of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) dates"
"British baseball is played in parts of England and Wales. It involves 11 players per team and shares some terminology with cricket. There is also rounders, a baseball-like game played mostly at schools and amongst friends. Great Britain competed in the qualifying rounds of the 2013 World Baseball Classic. Baseball in North America is a very popular sport, mostly in the United States and Mexico. In Central American countries, it is popular most likely due to US influence. In Mexico it is very popular and is the country's prominent sport, after soccer. It is also the most popular sport in"
"larger team competition. If a match is all square after the 18th hole extra holes are not played. Rather, each side earns ½ a point toward their team total. The team that accumulates at least 10½ points wins the competition. In the event of a tie, the current holder retains the Cup. Eight players for the Great Britain & Ireland and USA participated in the event plus one non-playing captain for each team. The Great Britain & Ireland team was selected by the LGU in March 2008. The American team was selected by the USGA’s International Team Selection Committee in"
"States. The national team took part in the inaugural Davis Cup in 1900, and has spent 16 years in the World Group. They are the third most successful team in terms of championships won. Under the current management of Leon Smith, the national team qualified to the World Group in 2013, won the title in 2015, reached the semifinals of the in 2016. Great Britain's first match, and first ever national team match in history, was a 0–3 loss to the United States in 1900. The tournament was not organised in 1901, and Britain lost the following year, but the"
"in Mexico, which resulted in the resignation of head coach, Wayne Hill. The Great Britain U-19 American Football team represent the nation in international competition of youth American Football. The Great Britain Women's Team were founded in 2012 and represent the nation in Women's American football. In the 2015 European Championships, the team finished as runners-up, losing to Finland 50-12, their first ever defeat, in the final. BAFA also runs three flag football teams for men, women and under-19s. Great Britain national American football team The Great Britain national American football team, known as the GB Lions represents the UK"
"these holding its first edition in 2018. The PGA of America organizes the PGA Championship, Senior PGA Championship and Women's PGA Championship. Three legs of the Grand Slam of Golf are based in the United States: the PGA Championship, U.S. Open and The Masters. (The Open Championship, known in the U.S. as the British Open, is played in the United Kingdom.) The PGA Tour is the main professional golf tour in the United States, and the LPGA Tour is the main women's professional tour. Also of note is PGA Tour Champions, where players 50 and older compete. Golf is aired"
"Nationalities team played from 1904 to 1975. In rugby union, the British and Irish Lions faced the Rest of the World XV in 1986. In basketball, the NBA Rising Stars Challenge faces a Team USA versus a Team World since 2015. Two events in golf, one currently active and the other defunct, involve teams officially labeled ""International"" that are effectively ""rest of the world"" teams. The Presidents Cup in men's golf, held in odd-numbered years, features competition between a United States team and an ""International"" team made up of non-European players (Europeans compete against the USA in even-numbered years in"
"1923: 1, 1926: 1, 1932: 3, 1934: 1, 1936: 3, 1938: 1, 1951: 3, 1957: 1, 1963: 4, 1965: 2, 1967: 4, 1969: 6 Source: Of the 46 matches, USA has won 36 matches, Great Britain and Ireland have won 9 with 1 match tied. Walker Cup The Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested in odd-numbered years by leading amateur golfers in two teams: United States, and Great Britain and Ireland. The official name is the Walker Cup Match (not ""Matches"" as in Ryder Cup Matches). It is organised by The R&A and the United States Golf Association (USGA)."
"in the court of Henry VIII, the English dessert strawberries and cream is synonymous with the British summer, and is famously consumed at Wimbledon. England, and other countries in the United Kingdom, compete as a separate nations in some international sporting events, especially in football, cricket, rugby league and rugby union. The England cricket team actually represents England and Wales. However, in the Olympic Games, England competes as part of the Great Britain team. English supporters are now more likely to carry the Cross of Saint George flag than the British Union Flag. Football maintains a consistent popularity across the"
"Beach, Florida. The excitement of the sport was contagious; many of the early polo matches in the 1920s and 1930s attracted as many as 20,000 spectators. This would be an impressive attendance even by today’s standards, yet when one considers the communication and transportation capabilities of that era it was truly incredible. The center of much of this excitement was Meadowbrook Polo Club in Westbury, NY, the site of many of the first U.S. Open and Westchester Cup Championships. During the 1913-14 season, the Westchester Cup packed 20,000 spectators into the stands. Even as polo gained in popularity across the"
"team event. The event was attended by 39 countries including Iran, South Africa, USA, Canada as well as a host of European Countries. England organise several events, The England Open now run at The Bunn Leisure Holiday Centre, Selsey in Sussex during June is the biggest open competition in the World for a comparable entry fee, and has been awarded a Category A status. The England Classic also takes place at Selsey in September each year; The England Masters and The England National Singles have enjoyed many venues, originally hosted at the Cheshire Conference Centre moving in 2011 to the"
"of a European victory 156 - 154, one of the lowest scores in Weber Cup history. The teams were formed up of 4 players on each team meaning the dropping of Martin Larsen from Europe and Jason Couch for the USA. The tournament was won by the Europeans, captained once again by Osku Palermaa Weber Cup The Weber Cup, named after bowling legend Dick Weber, is a men's ten-pin bowling competition between Team Europe and Team USA. The teams competing over three days in a series of singles, doubles and team (baker) matches. The Weber Cup is equivalent to the"