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Sunday 28 September 2014Team cupsYear in Review
Europe wins Ryder Cup
Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Scotland · Friday 26 to Sunday 28 September 2014 · 40th Ryder Cup Matches; fourballs in the morning and foursomes 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 24 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 31° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R115°/11°C · wind 28 km/h WSW, gusts 68 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R215°/10°C · wind 22 km/h SW, gusts 50 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R317°/12°C · wind 17 km/h SW, gusts 40 · 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 · 11½Led 2½–1½ after Friday morning fourballs but won only one of eight foursomes points over two days, trailed 10–6 entering singles and split the singles 6½–5½ 2014 Ryder Cup (Wikipedia)
24 started
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Team cup
Ryder Cup
Gleneagles (PGA Centenary Course), Gleneagles
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Europe
Runner-up: USA
To par not yet researched.
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
28 September 2014
I want to say as captain it's been a real honour to get these 12 players, they have all been Colossus, and all of them, the caddies, the backroom team, five vice captains, it's been a huge team effort.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
28 September 2014
Wave after wave after wave, that's what we talked about.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
28 September 2014
But have to give credit to The European Team. They played better than we did. They have a wonderful team. They are stacked with great players, and it would have been a tough go to beat them this week.
ESPN.com (Bob Harig)
28 September 2014
It takes 12 players to win. It's not pods. It's 12 players.
ESPN.com (Bob Harig)
28 September 2014
Unfortunately, we have strayed from a winning formula in 2008 for the last three Ryder Cups, and we need to consider maybe getting back to that formula that helped us play our best
Top 10
Not yet researched
The golfer
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet