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Sunday 15 September 1985Team cupsYear in Review

Europe wins Ryder Cup

The Belfry, Wishaw, England · Friday 13 to Sunday 15 September 1985

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 23 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 40° up at noon, and that night a new moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R117°/10°C · wind 21 km/h WNW, gusts 40 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R217°/10°C · wind 33 km/h SW, gusts 62 · 1.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R315°/9°C · wind 28 km/h W, gusts 50 · 0.4 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.