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Sunday 28 September 1997Team cupsYear in Review

Europe wins Ryder Cup

Valderrama Golf Club, Sotogrande, Spain · Friday 26 to Sunday 28 September 1997

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 51° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R124°/22°C · wind 29 km/h ESE, gusts 53 · 18.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R222°/19°C · wind 18 km/h SSE, gusts 44 · 47.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R322°/17°C · wind 9 km/h ENE, gusts 22 · 5.3 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.