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Sunday 16 October 1983Team cupsYear in Review

USA wins Ryder Cup

PGA National Golf Club, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida · Friday 14 to Sunday 16 October 1983

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 19 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 53° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R130°/24°C · wind 13 km/h E, gusts 31 · 7.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R230°/25°C · wind 13 km/h E, gusts 29 · 2.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R329°/24°C · wind 12 km/h ENE, gusts 28 · 16.7 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.