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| | | | 1951 Pinehurst Country Club, Pinehurst, North Carolina | | | |
| Captains: Sam Snead (US), Arthur Lacey (GB) | USA 9 1/2 GB 2 1/2 | | | 
1951 Great Britain Team | |
The only visit by the Ryder Cup Matches to Pinehurst Resort and Country
Club featured a bit of everything. Midway through the Matches, the
competition was suspended in order that members of both teams could attend
a college football game at Chapel Hill, N.C., between North Carolina and
Tennessee. North Carolina was routed, 27-0, and it may have been an omen
for the British spectators who had attended their first American football
game Captain Sam Snead, who has often called Pinehurst No. 2 his favorite
course, "quarterbacked" the American charge by teaming with Lloyd Mangrum
for a 5 and 4 decision in the foursomes and downing Max Faulkner in
singles, 4 and 3. So convincing was the American performance that only two
of the 12 matches reached the 18th hole. Arthur Lees scored all of
Britain's 2 1/2 points. Overlooked in the American rout was the play of
Jimmy Demaret, who would retire from Ryder Cup competition with the best
unbeaten mark in event history (6-0-0). Dai Rees, the veteran Briton who
would end his career a decade later after nine Ryder Cup appearances, paid
Demaret the utmost praise after a 2-up defeat: "Jimmy performed wondrous
things in bunkers. I regard him as the greatest sand player I have ever
seen. He was in 11 greenside bunkers that day and on 10 occasions he got
down with a splash and a putt." Demaret capped his performance at
Pinehurst by holing out for a birdie 2 from a buried lie at the 17th
greenside bunker. After the match, Demaret handed his sand wedge to Rees
as a gift. Rees later said that he was so enthralled by the club that he
copied it for his own set. |
| | | | Great Britain | United States | | | Foursomes | | | | | | | | | M Faulkner & D J Rees | 0 | C Heafner & J Burke (5 & 3) | 1 | | C H Ward & A Lees (2 & 1) | 1 | E Oliver & H Ransom | 0 | | J Adams & J Panton | 0 | S Snead & L Mangrum (5 & 4) | 1 | | F Daly & K Bousfield | 0 | B Hogan & J Demaret (5 & 4) | 1 | | Singles | | | | | | | | | J Adams | 0 | J Burke (4 & 3 ) | 1 | | D J Rees | 0 | J Demaret (2 holes) | 1 | | F Daly (halved) | ½ | C Heafner (halved) | ½ | | H Weetman | 0 | L Mangrum (6 & 5) | 1 | | A Lees (2 & 1) | 1 | E Oliver | 0 | | C H Ward | 0 | B Hogan (3 & 2) | 1 | | J Panton | 0 | S Alexander (8 & 7) | 1 | | M Faulkner | 0 | S Snead (4 & 3) | 1 | | | USA 9 1/2GB 2 1/2 | | | |
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