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Sunday 2 November 1947Team cupsYear in Review

USA wins Ryder Cup

Portland Golf Club, Portland, Oregon · Saturday 1 to Sunday 2 November 1947

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

9 h 48 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 29° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R110°/5°C · wind 9 km/h SW, gusts 30 · 17.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R211°/4°C · wind 15 km/h S, gusts 34 · 1.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. Ryder Cup

1927–2025 in our record, 45 editions.

The ones it got away from

Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.