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Saturday 18 September 1971Team cupsYear in Review

USA wins Ryder Cup

Old Warson Country Club, St. Louis, Missouri · Thursday 16 to Saturday 18 September 1971

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 06 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 52° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R119°/12°C · wind 19 km/h NNE, gusts 40 · 14.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R222°/14°C · wind 14 km/h N, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R321°/15°C · wind 14 km/h NNE, gusts 28 · 4.3 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.