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Saturday 14 October 1961Team cupsYear in Review

USA wins Ryder Cup

Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes, England · Friday 13 to Saturday 14 October 1961

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 18 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 27° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R116°/8°C · wind 20 km/h SE, gusts 31 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R214°/8°C · wind 16 km/h SSE, gusts 27 · 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.