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Sunday 16 September 1979Team cupsYear in Review

USA wins Ryder Cup

The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia · Friday 14 to Sunday 16 September 1979

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 11 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 54° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R123°/15°C · wind 21 km/h SW, gusts 70 · 9.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R219°/9°C · wind 16 km/h NW, gusts 43 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R319°/8°C · wind 6 km/h NE, gusts 20 · 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.