The Ryder Cup: Seven Decades of Golfing Glory, Drama, and Controversy

by Dale Concannon

In 1926, wealthy seed merchant Samuel Ryder agreed to provide a trophy for the best of teams from two countries. What he started is a unique competition that, for the last seventy years, has regularly raised golf tempers to the boiling point on both sides of the Atlantic.

It all started amicably enough, but the sense of shock in British clubhouses was palpable when, in 1927, the United States took the first contest by a humiliating margin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589800427
• ISBN13: 9781589800427
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.7"