A gold participant's medal for the Great Britain v U.S.A. international golf match organised by Samuel Ryder at the Wentworth Club 4th & 5th June 1926
Hammer Price:
£7,500
Estimated Price:
£10,000 - £15,000
A gold participant's medal for the Great Britain v U.S.A. international golf match organised by Samuel Ryder at the Wentworth Club 4th & 5th June 1926, THE COMPETITION BEING THE FORERUNNER OF THE RYDER CUP STAGED FOR THE FIRST TIME A YEAR LATER AT THE WORCESTER COUNTRY CLUB, MASSACHUSETTS, the medal by the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Co. Ltd., Birmingham, 1925, the obverse with a figure of a golfer in raised relief, possibly intended to be Abe Mitchell, Samuel Ryder's professional coach at Verulam Golf Club, St Albans, and who is the figure on top of the Ryder Cup trophy commissioned in 1927, the reverse inscribed WENTWORTH CLUB, GREAT BRITAIN v U.S.A., JUNE 4th & 5th 1926, original recipient unknown