1963 Ryder Cup

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The 15th Ryder Cup Matches were held at the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia. The United States team won the competition by a score of 23 – 9 points.

Contents 1 Teams 1.1 Team Great Britain 1.2 Team United States 2 Friday's matches 2.1 Morning Foursomes 2.2 Afternoon Foursomes 3 Saturday's matches 3.1 Morning Four-Ball 3.2 Afternoon Four-Ball 4 Sunday's matches 4.1 Morning singles 4.2 Afternoon singles 5 References

[edit] Teams

[edit] Team Great Britain

Captain: John Fallon

• Brian Huggett
• Percy Alliss
• Neil Coles
• Dave Thomas
• George Will
• Christy O'Connor
• Bernard Hunt
• Harry Weetman
• Tom Haliburton
• Geoffrey Hunt

[edit] Team United States

• Arnold Palmer — Captain
• Billy Casper
• Julius Boros
• Gene Littler
• Johnny Pott
• Dave Ragan
• Tony Lema
• Dow Finsterwald
• Billy Maxwell
• Bob Goalby

[edit] Friday's matches

[edit] Morning Foursomes

	Results
Huggett/Will	3 & 2	Palmer/Pott
Alliss/O'Connor	1 hole	Casper/Ragan
Coles/Hunt	halved	Boros/Lema
Thomas/Weetman	halved	Littler/Finsterwald
2	Foursomes	2
2	Overall	2

[edit] Afternoon Foursomes

	Results
Thomas/Weetman	4 & 3	Maxwell/Goalby
Huggett/Will	5 & 4	Palmer/Casper
Coles/Hunt	2 & 1	Littler/Finsterwald
Haliburton/Hunt	1 hole	Boros/Lema
1	Foursomes	3
3	Overall	5

[edit] Saturday's matches

[edit] Morning Four-Ball

	Results
Huggett/Thomas	5 & 4	Palmer/Finsterwald
Alliss/Hunt	halved	Littler/Boros
Weetman/Will	3 & 2	Casper/Maxwell
Coles/O'Connor	1 hole	Goalby/Ragan
½	Four-Ball	3 ½
3 ½	Overall	8 ½

[edit] Afternoon Four-Ball

	Results
Coles/O'Connor	3 & 2	Palmer/Finsterwald
Alliss/Hunt	1 hole	Lema/Pott
Haliburton/Hunt	2 & 1	Casper/Maxwell
Huggett/Thomas	halved	Goalby/Ragan
½	Four-Ball	3 ½
4	Overall	12

[edit] Sunday's matches

[edit] Morning singles

	Results
Geoffrey Hunt	5 & 3	Tony Lema
Brian Huggett	3 & 1	Johnny Pott
Percy Alliss	1 hole	Arnold Palmer
Neil Coles	halved	Billy Casper
Dave Thomas	halved	Billy Casper
Christy O'Connor	1 hole	Gene Littler
Harry Weetman	1 hole	Julius Boros
Bernard Hunt	2 holes	Dow Finsterwald
4 ½	Singles	3 ½
8 ½	Overall	15 ½

[edit] Afternoon singles

	Results
George Will	3 & 2	Arnold Palmer
Neil Coles	2 & 1	Dave Ragan
Percy Alliss	halved	Tony Lema
Tom Haliburton	6 & 5	Gene Littler
Harry Weetman	2 & 1	Julius Boros
Christy O'Connor	2 & 1	Billy Maxwell
Dave Thomas	4 & 3	Dow Finsterwald
Bernard Hunt	2 & 1	Bob Goalby
½	Singles	7 ½
9	Overall	23

[edit] References

1961 Ryder Cup 14½ 9½

1963 Ryder Cup 23 9

1965 Ryder Cup 19½ 12½