The nine Spanish golfers who have won the Ryder Cup

With an excellent performance and leading Europe in the 13th Ryder Cup, Jon Rahm won his second Raider this Sunday For your individual record. The Basque golfer has already won this precious trophy in 2018, but has now achieved it in 2023 as a major.

Since 1979, the Ryder Cup – one of the major sporting events – has been pitted by the United States against the United States. Europe (before the United States and before the United Kingdom) existed Nine Spanish golfers have won the title. The number may seem large, but it must be taken into account that in all editions of Ryder there has been at least one Spanish golfer. Only one European country besides Spain holds this honor: England.

Thus, Jon Rahm had two Ryder Cup victories, which they did Jose Maria Cañizares (1985 and 1989) and Miguel Angel Jimenez (2004 and 2010). There are three Spanish golfers who have won the Ryder Cup: Manuel Pinheiro (1985), Jose Rivero (1985) and Ignacio Garrido (1997).

The Spanish golfer with the most Ryder Cup titles is… Sergio Garcia, who won this precious cup with Europe in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2012, 2014 and 2018. He was left with four Ryder Seve Ballesteros (1985, 1987, 1989 and 1995), were honored this weekend, and Jose Maria Olazábal (1987, 1989, 1997, 2006).

Spanish golf is always key to understanding European teams at Ryder. As we said, In all editions there has been at least one Spanish golfer, but some years there were four of them in the European team. This was, for example, the case in the 1985 edition in England: Seve Ballesteros, José María Cañizares, José Rivero and Manuel Pinheiro played.

The Spaniard who participated in most of Ryder’s releases was Sergio Garcia, That from 1999 to 2021, only one edition has been missed, and a total of ten have been played. Garcia, the golfer with the highest number of points in the history of the tournament, will not be present at Ryder in 2023 because of his association with the so-called Super Golf League, which Saudi Arabia promotes with unlimited funds, and which is not compatible with Ryder.