4th July 2025
The R&A and Captain Dean Robertson have announced the nine players who will represent Great Britain & Ireland (GB&I) in the 2025 St Andrews Trophy match against the Continent of Europe.
The match will take place on 24-25 July at Real Club de la Puerta de Hierro in Madrid, Spain.
The GB&I St. Andrews Trophy Team (Graphic: The R&A)
The GB&I team consists of : –
Cameron ADAM (21) – Royal Burgess, Scotland WAGR #29*
Eliot BAKER (22) – Tiverton, England #134
Dominic CLEMONS (23) – Gog Magog, England #41*
Charlie FORSTER (22) – Basingstoke, England #58
Connor GRAHAM (18) – Blairgowrie, Scotland #40*
Stuart GREHAN (32) County Louth, Ireland #845
Luke POULTER (21) – Woburn, England #49
Gavin TIERNAN (19) – County Louth, Ireland #652
Tyler WEAVER (20) – Bury St Edmunds, England #14*
*Adam, Clemons, Graham and Weaver all received automatic selections based on their 2nd July 2025 WAGR rankings. The other players were Captain’s Picks.
Dominic Clemons, Charlie Forster and Connor Graham all played in the 2024 match at Royal Porthcawl G.C.. Stuart Grehan played eight years ago in the tied 2016 match at Prince’s G.C.
Cameron Adam, Eliot Baker, Stuart Grehan, Luke Poulter, Gavin Tiernan and Tyler Weaver will all make their GB&I debuts.
Whilst certainly worthy of being in the mix the selections of Irish pair, Grehan and Tiernan, are a little surprising as respectively there are 47 and 37 GB&I players ranked above them in the current WAGR. Grehan, who turned pro in October 2017, only regained his amateur status in April 2025 whilst Tiernan has clearly been given considerable credit for reaching the Final of The Amateur Championship.
With the GB&I selectors having now shown their hand it appears that their other leading players, such as Jack BIGHAM (ENG), Seb CAVE (ENG), Thomas HIGGINS (IRL), Zach LITTLE (ENG), Tom OSBORNE (ENG) Niall SHIELS DONEGAN (SCO) and Freddie TURNELL (ENG), will need to produce some good results in the next six weeks to force their way into the Walker Cup picture.
The St. Andrews Trophy (Photo: Suomen Golfliitto / Finnish Golf Union)
The re-jigging of the amateur calendar means that the normally biennial contest is being played just a year after Europe beat GB&I 16.0-9.0 in Wales.
The timing of the match is advantageous to GB&I, at least in theory, as it comes just over a month before the Walker Cup match against USA and will give the players the opportunity to get to know each other better and to compete as a team.
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