1973 Muirfield, Muirfield, Scotland

Captains: Jack Burke (US), Bernard Hunt (GB & Ireland)
USA 19 - GB & I 13

In the first Ryder Cup Matches to be contested in Scotland, players from the Republic of Ireland were eligible to compete for the British Team. The host's bid to end a seven-Match U.S. winning streak took a fateful turn prior to the opening of the second-day foursomes. Britain's Bernard Gallacher, who had teamed for two important foursomes victories in a 5 ½ to 2 ½ Great Britain advantage, contracted food poisoning. Peter Butler was summoned from bed just 1 ½ hours before his tee time to replace Gallacher and join teammate Brian Barnes. Butler responded by becoming the first player to record a hole-in-one in Ryder Cup history. He aced the par-3 16th hole in the morning foursomes, but U.S. opponents Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf claimed a 1-up victory. Butler and Barnes also fell in the afternoon Four-Ball, 2-up, to Arnold Palmer and J.C. Snead.

Great Britain & Ireland		United States
Foursomes: Morning
B W Barnes & B J Gallacher (1 hole)	1	L Trevino & W J Casper	0
C O'Connor & N C Coles (3 & 2)	1	T Weiskopf & J C Snead	0
A Jacklin & P A Oosterhuis (halved)	½	J Rodriguez & L Graham (halved)	½
M Bembridge & P J Butler (1 hole)	0	J W Nicklaus & A Palmer (6 & 5)	1
Four-Ball: Afternoon
B W Barnes & B J Gallacher (5 & 4)	1	T Aaron & G Brewer	0
M E Bembridge & B G C Huggett (3 & 1)	1	A Palmer & J W Nicklaus	0
A Jacklin & P Oosterhuis (3 & 1)	1	T Weiskopf & W J Casper	0
C O'Connor & N C Coles	0	L Trevino & H Blancas (2 & 1)	1
Foursomes: Morning
B W Barnes & P J Butler	0	J W Nicklaus & T Weiskopf (1 hole)	1
P A Oosterhuis & A Jacklin (2 holes)	1	A Palmer & D Hill	0
M E Bembridge & B G C Huggett (5 & 4)	1	J Rodriguez & L Graham	0
N C Coles & C O'Connor	0	L Trevino & W Casper (2 & 1)	1
Four-Ball: Afternoon
B W Barnes & P J Butler	0	J C Snead & A Palmer (2 holes)	1
A Jacklin & P A Oosterhuis	0	G Brewer & W Casper (3 & 2)	1
C Clark & E Polland	0	J W Nicklaus & T Weiskopf (3 & 2)	1
M E Bembridge & B G C Huggett (halved)	½	L Trevino & H Blancas (halved)	½
Singles: Morning
B W Barnes	0	W J Casper (2 & 1)	1
B J Gallacher	0	T Weiskopf (3 & 1)	1
P J Butler	0	H Blancas (5 & 4)	1
A Jacklin (3 & 1)	1	T Aaron	0
N C Coles (halved)	½	G Brewer (halved)	½
C O'Connor	0	J C Snead (1 hole)	1
M E Bembridge (halved)	½	J W Nicklaus (halved)	½
P A Oosterhuis (halved)	½	L Trevino(halved)	½
Singles: Afternoon
B G C Huggett (4 & 2)	1	H Blancas	0
B W Barnes	0	J C Snead (3 & 1)	1
B J Gallacher	0	G Brewer (6 & 5)	1
A Jacklin	0	W J Casper (2 & 1)	1
N C Coles	0	L Trevino (6 & 5)	1
C O'Connor (halved)	½	T Weiskopf (halved)	½
M E Bembridge	0	J W Nicklaus (2 holes)	1
P A Oosterhuis (4 & 2)	1	A Palmer	0