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Saturday 3 October 1953Team cupsYear in Review

USA wins Ryder Cup

Wentworth Club, Virginia Water, England · Friday 2 to Saturday 3 October 1953

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

The weather

11 h 10 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 34° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R117°/11°C · wind 9 km/h WSW, gusts 23 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R218°/9°C · wind 12 km/h NNW, gusts 21 · 0 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.