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Sunday 20 September 1981Team cupsYear in Review

USA wins Ryder Cup

Walton Heath Golf Club, Walton-on-the-Hill, England · Friday 18 to Sunday 20 September 1981

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 02 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 39° up at noon, and that night a last-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R117°/11°C · wind 26 km/h SSW, gusts 50 · 5.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R216°/11°C · wind 46 km/h SSW, gusts 100 · 12.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R316°/11°C · wind 43 km/h SW, gusts 95 · 3.5 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.