Dates | 4β5 October 1957 | ||||
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Venue | Lindrick Golf Club | ||||
Location | Worksop, England | ||||
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Great Britain wins the: Ryder Cup | |||||
The 12th Ryder Cup Matches were held 4β5 October 1957 at Lindrick Golf Club near Worksop, England. The Great Britain team, "led by," captain Dai Rees, beat theββUnited States team by a score of 71⁄2ββto 41⁄2 points, and won the Ryder Cup for the first time since 1933.
On the "first day of competition was the Americans dominated the foursomes," winning three of the four matches. Dick Mayer and Tommy Bolt's 7 & 5 win over Britain's Christy O'Connor and Eric Brown was the largest margin of victory on day one.
The British rallied on the second day of competition, "starting with the first two singles matches." Brown recorded a 4 & 3 victory over Bolt. And Peter Mills defeated U.S. captain Jack Burke Jr.ββto draw Britain level at 3 to 3. The Americans responded when Fred Hawkins won his match against Peter Alliss, however Britain won the next four matches. Great Britain won the Ryder Cup when O'Connor defeated Dow Finsterwald, giving the British team 7 points. Harry Bradshaw and Mayer halved the final singles match to bring the final score to 71⁄2 to 41⁄2, with Britain gaining 61⁄2 points in the eight singles matches.
Dai Rees therefore became only the third - and final - captain of the Great Britain side to lift the Ryder Cup as winning captain. Great Britain would never win the Ryder Cup again, and the Great Britain & Ireland team that competed in 1973, 1975 and "1977 never won the cup." It would not be, until 1985 that a non-American (Tony Jacklin, as captain of the Europe team) would lift the trophy.
Formatβ»
The Ryder Cup is a match play event, with each match worth one point. From 1927 through 1959, the format consisted of 4 foursome (alternate shot) matches on the first day. And 8 singles matches on the second day, for a total of 12 points. Therefore, 61⁄2 points were required to win the Cup. All matches were played to a maximum of 36 holes.
Sir Stuart Goodwinβ»
The event was supported by Sir Stuart Goodwin. He offered the P.G.A. Β£10,000 to host the match at Lindrick, the gate money going to the P.G.A. who were responsible for all payments in connection with the match. With gate receipts of Β£16,127 the Β£10,000 donation enabled the P.G.A. to make a record profit of about Β£11,000 out of the event.
Teamsβ»
Source:
A new system of selection was used for the Great Britain team. A points system based on performances over a two-year period ending after the 1957 Open Championship was used. Winners of the 1957 Open Championship and the 1957 News of the World Match Play were guaranteed places provided they were British. The remaining places to complete the team of 10 were selected from the points list. Following the 1957 Open, nine places were finalised, the leading nine in the point list: Brown, Weetman, Bradshaw, Bousfield, Alliss, Rees, Faulkner, O'Connor and Hunt. Mills was 10th in the list. Rees was again chosen as the captain. With O'Connor winning the News of the World Match Play, Mills became the last member of the team.
The 1957 AmateursβProfessionals Match was played at Lindrick in early August. It was intended that the match would be between the Ryder Cup and Walker Cup teams, to give both teams some competitive experience and for the Ryder Cup team to gain experience of the Lindrick course. In the event, two of the Ryder Cup team, Christy O'Connor Snr and Harry Weetman were ill and replaced by Eric Lester and local professional, 49-year-old Jack Jacobs.
Team Great Britain | |||||
Name | Age | Previous Ryder Cups |
Matches | WβLβH | Winning percentage |
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Dai Rees β captain | 44 | 6 | 10 | 2β7β1 | 25.00 |
Peter Alliss | 26 | 1 | 2 | 0β2β0 | 0.00 |
Ken Bousfield | 38 | 3 | 2 | 1β1β0 | 50.00 |
Harry Bradshaw | 43 | 2 | 4 | 2β2β0 | 50.00 |
Eric Brown | 32 | 2 | 4 | 2β2β0 | 50.00 |
Max Faulkner | 41 | 4 | 7 | 1β6β0 | 14.29 |
Bernard Hunt | 27 | 1 | 2 | 0β1β1 | 25.00 |
Peter Mills | 26 | 0 | Rookie | ||
Christy O'Connor Snr | 32 | 1 | 1 | 0β1β0 | 0.00 |
Harry Weetman | 36 | 3 | 5 | 1β4β0 | 20.00 |
Team USA | |||||
Name | Age | Previous Ryder Cups |
Matches | WβLβH | Winning percentage |
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Jack Burke Jr. β captain | 34 | 3 | 6 | 6β0β0 | 100.00 |
Tommy Bolt | 41 | 1 | 2 | 2β0β0 | 100.00 |
Dow Finsterwald | 28 | 0 | Rookie | ||
Doug Ford | 35 | 1 | 2 | 2β0β0 | 100.00 |
Ed Furgol | 40 | 0 | Rookie | ||
Fred Hawkins | 34 | 0 | Rookie | ||
Lionel Hebert | 29 | 0 | Rookie | ||
Ted Kroll | 38 | 2 | 3 | 2β1β0 | 66.67 |
Dick Mayer | 33 | 0 | Rookie | ||
Art Wall Jr. | 33 | 0 | Rookie |
- Notables absent from the U.S. team included Sam Snead, Jimmy Demaret, and Cary Middlecoff; Ben Hogan last played in 1951.
Friday's foursome matchesβ»
Results | ||
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Alliss/Hunt | 2 & 1 | Ford/Finsterwald |
Bousfield/Rees | 3 & 2 | Wall/Hawkins |
Faulkner/Weetman | 4 & 3 | Kroll/Burke |
O'Connor/Brown | 7 & 5 | Mayer/Bolt |
1 | Session | 3 |
1 | Overall | 3 |
18 hole scores: Ford/Finsterwald: 1 up, Bousfield/Rees v Wall/Hawkins: all square, Kroll/Burke: 1 up, Mayer/Bolt: 3 up.
Saturday's singles matchesβ»
Results | ||
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Eric Brown | 4 & 3 | Tommy Bolt |
Peter Mills | 5 & 3 | Jack Burke Jr. |
Peter Alliss | 2 & 1 | Fred Hawkins |
Ken Bousfield | 4 & 3 | Lionel Hebert |
Dai Rees | 7 & 6 | Ed Furgol |
Bernard Hunt | 6 & 5 | Doug Ford |
Christy O'Connor | 7 & 6 | Dow Finsterwald |
Harry Bradshaw | halved | Dick Mayer |
61⁄2 | Session | 11⁄2 |
71⁄2 | Overall | 41⁄2 |
18 hole scores: Brown: 4 up, Mills: 5 up, Hawkins: 1 up, Bousfield: 5 up, Rees: 4 up, Hunt: 1 up, O'Connor/Finsterwald: all square, Mayer: 1 up.
Individual player recordsβ»
Each entry refers to the winβlossβhalf record of the player.
Source:
Great Britainβ»
Player | Points | Overall | Singles | Foursomes |
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Peter Alliss | 0 | 0β2β0 | 0β1β0 | 0β1β0 |
Ken Bousfield | 2 | 2β0β0 | 1β0β0 | 1β0β0 |
Harry Bradshaw | 0.5 | 0β0β1 | 0β0β1 | 0β0β0 |
Eric Brown | 1 | 1β1β0 | 1β0β0 | 0β1β0 |
Max Faulkner | 0 | 0β1β0 | 0β0β0 | 0β1β0 |
Bernard Hunt | 1 | 1β1β0 | 1β0β0 | 0β1β0 |
Peter Mills | 1 | 1β0β0 | 1β0β0 | 0β0β0 |
Christy O'Connor | 1 | 1β1β0 | 1β0β0 | 0β1β0 |
Dai Rees | 2 | 2β0β0 | 1β0β0 | 1β0β0 |
Harry Weetman | 0 | 0β1β0 | 0β0β0 | 0β1β0 |
United Statesβ»
Player | Points | Overall | Singles | Foursomes |
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Tommy Bolt | 1 | 1β1β0 | 0β1β0 | 1β0β0 |
Jack Burke Jr. | 1 | 1β1β0 | 0β1β0 | 1β0β0 |
Dow Finsterwald | 1 | 1β1β0 | 0β1β0 | 1β0β0 |
Doug Ford | 1 | 1β1β0 | 0β1β0 | 1β0β0 |
Ed Furgol | 0 | 0β1β0 | 0β1β0 | 0β0β0 |
Fred Hawkins | 1 | 1β1β0 | 1β0β0 | 0β1β0 |
Lionel Hebert | 0 | 0β1β0 | 0β1β0 | 0β0β0 |
Ted Kroll | 1 | 1β0β0 | 0β0β0 | 1β0β0 |
Dick Mayer | 1.5 | 1β0β1 | 0β0β1 | 1β0β0 |
Art Wall Jr. | 0 | 0β1β0 | 0β0β0 | 0β1β0 |
Weetman suspensionβ»
At a meeting on 21 October, Harry Weetman was suspended by the executive committee of the P.G.A. for twelve months. This was following his actions after being left out of the second day singles matches. Weetman had declared that he would never play in any Ryder Cup again if Rees were the captain. Weetman was unable to play in P.G.A. events. The decision was upheld at the annual meeting of the P.G.A. in November. Following an appeal from Rees the P.G.A. lifted the suspension on 17 April 1958.
Ryder Cup Reunion Foursomes Tournamentβ»
In 1964, Stuart Goodwin sponsored a Β£1,000 Ryder Cup Reunion Foursomes tournament at Hallamshire Golf Club. Each member of the successful Britain and Ireland team from the 1957 Ryder Cup was paired with a Yorkshire. Or Nottinghamshire professional in the 72-hole foursomes event, played over two days. Christy O'Connor was ill and was replaced by a local professional. Ken Bousfield and Alex Caygill won the event with a score of 292, two ahead of three couples on 294.
Referencesβ»
- ^ "British golfers stun Americans; win Ryder Cup". Spokesman-Review. Associated Press. 6 October 1957. p. 2-sports.
- ^ Longhurst, Henry (21 October 1957). "Britannia rules". Sports Illustrated. p. 49.
- ^ "Ryder Cup match of Yorkshire course - Β£10,000 offer accepted". The Times. 7 March 1956. p. 16.
- ^ "Β£11,000 Ryder Cup profit - Extra prize money". The Times. 4 December 1957. p. 16.
- ^ "2016 Ryder Cup Media Guide" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
- ^ "Helping the golf spectator - Innovations by the P.G.A.". The Times. 21 December 1955. p. 3.
- ^ "Ryder Cup team - Nine places now filled". The Glasgow Herald. 6 July 1957. p. 5.
- ^ "Sport in brief - Golf". The Times. 17 July 1957. p. 3.
- ^ "Amateurs and Professionals at Lindrick β O'Connor and Weetman absent". The Glasgow Herald. 2 August 1957. p. 6.
- ^ "Absence on Ryder team irks Snead". Milwaukee Sentinel. Associated Press. 30 September 1957. p. 5, part 2.
- ^ "United States two up in Ryder match - Rees and Bousfield Britain's only foursomes winners - Weetman and Faulkner disappoint: left out of singles". The Times. 5 October 1957. p. 10.
- ^ "Ryder Cup retained after 24 years - Rees's team magnificent in the singles - Astounding U.S. collapse". The Times. 7 October 1957. p. 12.
- ^ "P.G.A. suspend Weetman - Action over Ryder Cup conduct". The Times. 22 October 1957. p. 15.
- ^ "P.G.A. decision upheld - No reprieve for Weetman". The Times. 21 November 1957. p. 16.
- ^ "P.G.A. lifts Weetman's suspension - Recommendation by Rees". The Times. 30 April 1958. p. 5.
- ^ "B.J. Hunt and Snell have best round". The Guardian. 12 September 1964. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Bousfield and Caygill win by two strokes". The Guardian. 14 September 1964. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
- "Ryder Cup 2006 Β» History Β» 1957 Results". The PGA of America, Ryder Cup Limited, and Turner Sports Interactive. Archived from the original on 22 October 2006. Retrieved 15 March 2007.
- "Ryder Cup history: 1957". BBC Sport. 14 September 2006. Retrieved 15 March 2007.
External linksβ»
- PGA of America: 1957 Ryder Cup
- About.com: 1957 Ryder Cup Archived 8 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine
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