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Sunday 6 November 1955Team cupsYear in Review

USA wins Ryder Cup

Thunderbird Country Club, Rancho Mirage, California · Saturday 5 to Sunday 6 November 1955

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

The weather

10 h 27 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 39° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R131°/12°C · wind 7 km/h W, gusts 20 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R230°/15°C · wind 8 km/h N, gusts 26 · 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.