| Tornament Info for: 1969 The Ryder Cup | |||
| Date: | September 18 - 20, 1969 | ||
| Site: | Royal Birkdale Golf Club | ||
| United States Team | Great Britain Team | ||
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| Results: | 16 | 16 | |
| Captains: | Sam Snead | Eric Brown | |
| Players: |
Tommy Aaron Miller Barber Frank Beard Billy Casper Dale Douglass Raymond Floyd Dave Hill Gene Littler Jack Nicklaus Dan Sikes Ken Still Lee Trevino |
Peter Alliss Brian Barnes Maurice Bembridge Peter Butler Alex Caygill Neil Coles Bernard Gallacher Brian Huggett Bernard Hunt Tony Jacklin Christy O'Connor Sr. Peter Townsend |
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| In the closest contest in Ryder Cup history, 17 of the 32 matches went down to the last hole. With the matches tied going into the last day, the British won five of the eight mornings singles. But the U.S. roared back, winning four of the first six afternoon matches to even the score. In Brian Huggett's match against Billy Casper, Huggett made a four-foot putt to halve the match. That left the Ryder Cup to be decided by the last group of Tony Jacklin and Jack Nicklaus, who were tied going into the last hole. In one of golf's most memorable moments of sportsmanship, Nicklaus, playing in his first Ryder Cup Matches, conceded a two-footer to Jacklin after making a four-footer for par on the last green, resulting in the first tie in the Matches' history. | |||
| Morning Foursomes (Day One) | Afternoon Foursomes (Day One) | Morning Four-Balls (Day Two) | Afternoon Four-Balls (Day Two) | Morning Singles (Day Three) | Afternoon Singles (Day Three) | |
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| Great Britain | 3.5 | 1 | 2.5 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| United States | 0.5 | 3 | 1.5 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| United States Team | Great Britain Team | ||
| Morning Foursomes (Day One) 2 | |||
| Miller Barber & Raymond Floyd | 0 | Neil Coles & Brian Huggett (3 and 2) | 1 |
| Ken Still & Lee Trevino | 0 | Maurice Bembridge & Bernard Gallacher (2 and 1) | 1 |
| Tommy Aaron & Dave Hill | 0 | Tony Jacklin & Peter Townsend (3 and 1) | 1 |
| Frank Beard & Billy Casper (halved) | 0.5 | Peter Alliss & Christy O'Connor Sr. (halved) | 0.5 |
| Afternoon Foursomes (Day One) 3 | |||
| Tommy Aaron & Dave Hill (1-up) | 1 | Neil Coles & Brian Huggett | 0 |
| Gene Littler & Lee Trevino (1-up) | 1 | Maurice Bembridge & Bernard Gallacher | 0 |
| Frank Beard & Billy Casper | 0 | Tony Jacklin & Peter Townsend (1-up) | 1 |
| Jack Nicklaus & Dan Sikes (1-up) | 1 | Peter Butler & Bernard Hunt | 0 |
| Day One Total | 3.5 | Day One Total | 4.5 |
| Morning Four-Balls (Day Two) 5 | |||
| Dale Douglass & Dave Hill | 0 | Christy O'Connor Sr. & Peter Townsend (1-up) | 1 |
| Miller Barber & Raymond Floyd (halved) | 0.5 | Alex Caygill & Brian Huggett (halved) | 0.5 |
| Gene Littler & Lee Trevino (1-up) | 1 | Peter Alliss & Brian Barnes | 0 |
| Jack Nicklaus & Dan Sikes | 0 | Neil Coles & Tony Jacklin (1-up) | 1 |
| Afternoon Four-Balls (Day Two) 6 | |||
| Frank Beard & Billy Casper (2-up) | 1 | Peter Butler & Peter Townsend | 0 |
| Dave Hill & Ken Still (2 and 1) | 1 | Bernard Gallacher & Brian Huggett | 0 |
| Tommy Aaron & Raymond Floyd (halved) | 0.5 | Maurice Bembridge & Bernard Hunt (halved) | 0.5 |
| Miller Barber & Lee Trevino (halved) | 0.5 | Neil Coles & Tony Jacklin (halved) | 0.5 |
| Day Two Total | 4.5 | Day Two Total | 3.5 |
| Two-Day Total | 8 | Two-Day Total | 8 |
| Morning Singles (Day Three) 8 | |||
| Lee Trevino (2 and 1) | 1 | Peter Alliss | 0 |
| Dave Hill (5 and 4) | 1 | Peter Townsend | 0 |
| Tommy Aaron | 0 | Neil Coles (1-up) | 1 |
| Billy Casper (1-up) | 1 | Brian Barnes | 0 |
| Frank Beard | 0 | Christy O'Connor Sr. (5 and 4) | 1 |
| Ken Still | 0 | Maurice Bembridge (1-up) | 1 |
| Raymond Floyd | 0 | Peter Butler (1-up) | 1 |
| Jack Nicklaus | 0 | Tony Jacklin (4 and 3) | 1 |
| Afternoon Singles (Day Three) 9 | |||
| Dave Hill (4 and 2) | 1 | Brian Barnes | 0 |
| Lee Trevino | 0 | Bernard Gallacher (4 and 3) | 1 |
| Miller Barber (7 and 6) | 1 | Maurice Bembridge | 0 |
| Dale Douglass | 0 | Peter Butler (3 and 2) | 1 |
| Dan Sikes (4 and 3) | 1 | Neil Coles | 0 |
| Gene Littler (2 and 1) | 1 | Christy O'Connor Sr. | 0 |
| Billy Casper (halved) | 0.5 | Brian Huggett (halved) | 0.5 |
| Jack Nicklaus (halved) | 0.5 | Tony Jacklin (halved) | 0.5 |
| Day Three Total | 88 | Day Three Total | 8 |
| United States | 16 | Great Britain | 16 |
