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Sunday 27 September 1987Team cupsYear in Review

Europe wins Ryder Cup

Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin, Ohio · Friday 25 to Sunday 27 September 1987

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 42 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 47° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R120°/8°C · wind 12 km/h NNE, gusts 28 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R225°/4°C · wind 10 km/h S, gusts 23 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R329°/9°C · wind 12 km/h S, gusts 23 · 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.