Julian Hipwood

Julian Hipwood (born 1946) is a British polo player and coach. He was born and raised in the Cotswolds, started out playing association football and gradually moved to polo. He reached a nine-goal handicap in 1981, and his brother Howard Hipwood did the same in 1982; only 55 players worldwide have been rated nine goals by the United States Polo Association. In 1978 he was a finalist in the Argentine Open, the first Englishman to do so, and from 1981 to 1984 he won the 30-goal World Cup five times. He captained the England national team to six Coronation Cup wins and won British Gold and Queen's Cups, and in 1996 he won the USPA Monty Waterbury Cup and Heritage Cup. He later became a polo coach, working with several private teams and the Coca-Cola team that won the 2002 U.S. Open Championship. He lives in the United States and was inducted into the Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame on 12 February 2010.