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Saturday 22 September 1973Team cupsYear in Review

USA wins Ryder Cup

Muirfield, Gullane, Scotland · Thursday 20 to Saturday 22 September 1973

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

The weather

11 h 53 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 33° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R115°/9°C · wind 15 km/h W, gusts 26 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R213°/8°C · wind 15 km/h W, gusts 25 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R312°/8°C · wind 18 km/h N, gusts 28 · 0.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre 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.