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Saturday 9 October 1965Team cupsYear in Review

USA wins Ryder Cup

Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England · Thursday 7 to Saturday 9 October 1965

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 39 m

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

  1. R117°/14°C · wind 20 km/h ESE, gusts 32 · 1.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R215°/9°C · wind 24 km/h E, gusts 39 · 0.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R314°/9°C · wind 21 km/h E, gusts 38 · 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.