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Ryder Cup matches officially has been played and started in 1927.These are informal competitions between teams of American and British golfers go back a few years earlier.
In 1921 both of the teams of British and American golfers played a series of matches at Gleneagles at Scotland, prior to the British Open at St. Andrews. The British have won by 9-3. After one year in 1922 there was the first year of competition in the Walker Cup, an event pitting American and British amateurs in match play competition.
With the Walker Cup founded for amateur golfers, talk turned to the desire for a similar event limited to professionals. A London newspaper report from 1925 mentioned that Samuel Ryder had proposed an annual competition between British and American professionals. Ryder was an avid golfer as well as businessmen who had made his fortune by selling seeds . He is the person who came up with the idea of selling seeds packaged in small envelopes.
By the following year, the idea had taken hold. Another London newspaper report, this one from 1926.That newspaper reported that Ryder had commissioned a trophy for the competition which came to be the actual Ryder Cup itself.
A team of American golfers arrived a few weeks early for the 1926 British Open in order to play against the British team at Wentworth. Ted Ray captained the Britons and Walter Hagen the Americans. British team won the matches by a whopping score by 13 to 1, with one match halved.
One of the members of that 1926 British team, Abe Mitchell, is the golfer whose likeness adorns the Ryder Cup trophy.
But the Ryder Cup was not actually presented following the 1926 matches. The trophy likely wasn't ready by this point anyway, but the 1926 matches soon came to be regarded as "unofficial." The reason is that several of the players on the American team were not actually American, most prominently Tommy Armour, Jim Barnes and Fred McLeod (how a team featuring Hagen, Armour, Barnes and McLeod could get trounced by a 13-1-1 score is a mystery).
After completion of play, the team captains and Ryder met and determined that team members would henceforth have to be native-born (this was later changed to having citizenship), and that the matches would take place every other year.
The first "official" match was scheduled for one year and it was in 1927 and that match has to be played at Worcester Country Club in Worcester, Mass.
In June of 1927, the British team departed for the U.S. It was at the send-off that the Ryder Cup trophy made its first appearance. The British team set sail from Southampton aboard the sailing vessel "Aquitania." The transoceanic voyage took six days. Costs for the British team's travel were covered in part by donations from readers of the British golf magazine "Golf Illustrated."
Ted Ray and Walter Hagen again captained the teams, and this team each team was comprised of native-born players only. And this time, the U.S. won, 9 1/2 to 2 1/2. The cup (Ryder Cup) was presented to the American team, and the first official Ryder Cup competition took place.
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