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Saturday 20 September 1969Team cupsYear in Review

none wins Ryder Cup

Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England · Thursday 18 to Saturday 20 September 1969

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

The weather

12 h 02 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 37° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R118°/14°C · wind 22 km/h E, gusts 36 · 0.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R217°/12°C · wind 18 km/h NE, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R317°/10°C · wind 26 km/h SW, gusts 39 · 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.