![]() Ryder Cup Team on British soil was achieved by a balanced unit featuring rookies Sam Snead, runner-up in that year’s U.S. Hagen retired from competing in the event he had helped launch with a 7-1-1 record. Hagen did the same and watched happily from the gallery as his team eased to a 6-2 domination of the singles and a 9-3 overall victory. However, Captain Charles Whitcombe elected to sit out the singles as he apparently felt all three Whitcombes in the matches at the same time was unfair to other teammates. Britain’s Charles and Ernest Whitcombe combined for the only foursome victory, a 1-up decision over Olin Dutra and Ky Laffoon. Hagen, competing for the final time in his remarkable Ryder Cup career, joined Sarazen for a 7-and-6 romp over Alf Perry and Jack Busson. stars, with a 6-and-5 conquest of Percy Alliss and Alf Padgham. Picard and Revolta turned in the “narrowest” victory for the three sets of U.S. Great Britain sent the triumvirate of Whitcombe brothers - Charles, Ernest and Reg - but they did little to alter the home-course advantage for the Americans, who were boosted by the play of Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen, Paul Runyan and Horton Smith, and the duo of Henry Picard and Johnny Revolta in the opening foursomes. Andrews in a playoff over fellow American Craig Wood. ![]() Shute, meanwhile, recovered from his bitter defeat by winning the Open Championship at St. It was the last Ryder Cup that namesake Samuel Ryder would attend. The trophy went back to Britain and tied the series, 2-2. Shute hit his first putt four feet past the hole and missed the comeback putt. Easterbrook putted first and left his approach putt within tap-in range. Britain’s Syd Easterbrook and American Denny Shute were all square on the final green facing par putts of approximately 30 feet each. With 15,000 spectators eagerly following the action, the last singles match proved to be one of the most exciting finishes in Ryder Cup history. (Six of those years would be taken up with World War II.) British golf enthusiasts could not have dreamed that this exciting 6.5 to 5.5 victory would be their country’s last Ryder Cup triumph for 24 years. Later, Hagen added an impressive 4-and-3 singles victory over Charles Whitcombe.Īmerica had yet to establish its golf supremacy worldwide, and neither the British nor their visitors had won on the other team’s home soil. Captain Walter Hagen teamed with rookie Denny Shute for a 10-and-9 foursomes victory over George Duncan and A.G. The Professional Golfers’ Association of Great Britain sought to have Cotton join the team for the duration of the Ryder Cup and failed to reach an accommodation when Cotton had already scheduled himself earlier into several American events. after the Ryder Cup and had arranged for his own transportation. Sir Henry Cotton was sidelined because he preferred to remain in the U.S. ![]() Cloud in Paris and the Royal Golf Club in Belgium. Percy Alliss was attached to the Wansee Club in Berlin (though he moved back to England later that year with his wife and son, Peter) and Aubrey Boomer was a member at both St. The original Ryder Cup Deed of Trust declared that all members of both teams must be natives of, and residing in, the country they represented. The British were without three outstanding players for two reasons. ![]() victory over Great Britain at Scioto Country Club could be attributed more to the circumstances that preceded the Ryder Cup than to the stifling heat that the Americans used to their advantage in the second-day singles. ![]()
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