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Sunday 30 September 2012Team cupsYear in Review
Europe wins Ryder Cup
Medinah Country Club, Medinah, Illinois · Friday 28 to Sunday 30 September 2012 · 39th Ryder Cup; foursomes in the morning and fourballs in the afternoon on Friday and Saturday, 12 singles on Sunday
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 30 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 44° up at noon, and that night a full moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R119°/11°C · wind 22 km/h NNE, gusts 44 · 0.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R225°/8°C · wind 14 km/h NW, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R318°/9°C · wind 16 km/h NE, gusts 41 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- Ryder Cup
1927–2025 in our record, 45 editions.
The ones it got away from
- United States USA · 13½Led 10–6 entering the singles (10–4 at one stage on Saturday) but won only 3½ of the 12 singles points; Europe took 8½ Ryder Cup 2012: Europe beat USA after record comeback (BBC Sport)
24 started
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Team cup
Ryder Cup
Medinah Country Club (Course No. 3), Medinah
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Europe
Runner-up: USA
To par not yet researched.
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
30 September 2012
He was a big factor for this event, for the European side, and last night when we were having that meeting, I think the boys understood that believing was the most important thing, and I think they did.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
30 September 2012
all I did was just tell the boys that I still believed that we could turn things around, that all we needed was just to be a little bit more effective on the greens
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
30 September 2012
We all went to plan. We were four ahead. The plan worked the first two days, it just didn't work today.
Top 10
Not yet researched
The golfer
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What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet