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Sunday 21 September 1975Team cupsYear in Review

USA wins Ryder Cup

Laurel Valley Golf Club, Ligonier, Pennsylvania · Friday 19 to Sunday 21 September 1975

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 59 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 50° up at noon, and that night a full moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R124°/16°C · wind 16 km/h SSW, gusts 40 · 1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R223°/16°C · wind 22 km/h SW, gusts 56 · 2.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R318°/12°C · wind 19 km/h WSW, gusts 47 · 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.