1967 - Team Team Events
The winners in the category "1967 - Team Team Events" are shown in the table below, which also includes relevant information on venues, scores and prize money.
Team Events
PGA / PGA of Am
The Ryder Cup (17th) (Oct 20-22). USA vs Great Britain. Ten top professionals per team competing over three days in a total of eight fourball matches, eight foursomes and 16 singles. Non-playing captains: Ben Hogan (USA); Dai Rees (Wales/GB). [Cypress Creek course, Champions GC, Houston, TX].
Overall result: USA 23.5, GB 8.5.
Sunday morning singles (home player stated first): Gay Brewer bt Hugh Boyle (Ire) 4&3; Billy Casper bt Peter Alliss (Eng) 2&1; Arnold Palmer bt Tony Jacklin (Eng) 3&2; Julius Boros lost to Brian Huggett (Wales) 1 hole; Doug Sanders lost to Neil Coles (Eng) 2&1; Al Geiberger bt Malcolm Gregson (Eng) 4&2; Gene Littler halved with Dave Thomas (Wales); Bobby Nichols halved with Bernard Hunt (Eng).
Sunday afternoon singles: Palmer bt Huggett 5&3; Brewer lost to Alliss 2&1; Gardner Dickinson bt Jacklin 3&2; Nichols bt Christy O'Connor (Ire) 3&2; Johnny Pott bt George Will (Scot) 3&1; Geiberger bt Gregson 2&1; Boros halved with Hunt; Sanders lost to Coles 2&1.
Team Events
R&A / USGA
The Walker Cup (21st). USA vs Gt Britain & Ireland. Ten top amateurs per team competing in 2x four foursomes and 2x eight singles. Result: USA 13, GB&I 7; no points awarded for the four halved matches. Non-playing captain: Jess Sweetser (USA); playing captain: Joe Carr (Ire/GB&I). [Royal St George's GC, Sandwich, Kent].
FRIDAY SINGLES (eight 18-hole matches; home player stated first): Ronnie Shade (Scot) lost to William C. "Bill" Campbell 2&1; Rodney Foster (Eng) lost to Bob Murphy Jr 2&1; Michael Bonallack (Eng) halved with Downing Gray Jr; Michael Attenborough (Eng) lost to Ron Cerrudo 4&3; Peter Oosterhuis (Eng) lost to Bob Dickson 6&4; Tom Craddock (Ire) lost to Jack Lewis Jr 2&1; Sandy Pirie (Scot) halved with Don Allen; Sandy Saddler (Scot) bt Marty Fleckman 3&2.
SATURDAY SINGLES (eight 18-hole matches): Shade lost to Campbell 3&2; Bonallack bt Murphy 4&2; Saddler bt Gray 3&2; Foster halved with Cerrudo; Pirie lost to Dickson 4&3; Craddock bt Lewis 5&4; Oosterhuis lost to James A. Grant 1 hole; Dudley Millensted (Eng) lost to Edgar M. Tutwiler 3&1.
Joe Carr (GB capt) was not involved in the singles.
NOTE: This marked the last of Joe Carr's eleven consecutive Walker Cup appearances for GB&I, during which time he was once the non-playing captain (1965) and once the playing captain (1967). In a total of 20 foursomes and singles matches played, he won 5, lost 14 and halved 1.
Team Events
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Played as the World Cup of Golf (formerly the Canada Cup) (72-hole stroke play team event based on total scores of both players). Second-placed Bob Charles & Walter Godfrey (NZ) finished 13 shots behind wire-to-wire winners Jack Nicklaus & Arnold Palmer (USA), who shared the $2,000 first prize. Best individual score: Arnold Palmer (276). [Club de Golf Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico].
Chevron Championship: Carlton Woods near Houston in Texas provides the stage for the first women’s major championship of 2025, where Nelly Korda defends her title. (April 24-27).
Soudal Open: successor to the Belgian Open, the Soudal Open takes place on the quiet, wooded North course of Rinkven Golfclub. Belgian stars Thomas Pieters and Nicolas Colsaerts will be vying for top honours. (May 22-25).
Rory McIlroy: with his 2025 win in The Masters, Rory joined the pantheon of golfing greats who have achieved a career Grand Slam of men’s majors ... Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods are the only others in this select band.
Bernhard Langer: he may have played in his last Masters Tournament, but the 67-year-old German will be trying to extend his own record, and win a 13th senior major title at the 36th Regions Tradition. (May 15-18).
Marco Simone Golf & Country Club: With a clubhouse that might befit a Roman Emperor, and a golf course to match, you can be sure of a memorable outing at Rome's most talked about golf facility.
Jim Fazio's original layout was much changed to create a modern Ryder Cup course ... now one of the Eternal City's (and Italy's) most revered.
Here at Prince’s Golf Club you'll find 27 excellent holes of links golf. Just over the fence and sharing similar terrain is Royal St George’s; but Prince’s is far from overshadowed by its venerable neighbour. The three nine-hole loops at Prince's, laid out over gently undulating terrain, are sure to bring a smile of satisfaction to all lovers of links golf.
Stay&Play at Prince's: excellent onsite Lodge accommodation available
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