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Saturday 17 September 1977Team cupsYear in Review

USA wins Ryder Cup

Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes, England · Thursday 15 to Saturday 17 September 1977

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 15 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 38° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R116°/12°C · wind 24 km/h NW, gusts 35 · 0.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R214°/10°C · wind 22 km/h E, gusts 37 · 0.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R314°/9°C · wind 20 km/h NE, gusts 32 · 0.1 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.