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The first Ryder Cup was held in Scotland on this day in 1973. The US won its eighth competition in a row with a 19-13 victory, memorable for Bernard Gallacher pulling out with food poisoning when Great Britain were 51/2 to 2 ½ up. Peter Butler was summoned as a replacement to partner Brian Barnes and became the first player in Ryder Cup history to record a hole-in-one. Still lost though…
On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free from the first day of 1863. In 1955, the future wealth of Ant & Dec is secured with the launch of the first independent television station, the ITA.
It’s tillukku vid fodingardegnum! as they say in the Faroe Islands to fading Brazilian netbuster Ronaldo (31), Nigerian juju music legend King Sunny Ade (61), goth icon Nick Cave (50) and suffragette Dame Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of Emmeline, who would have been 127 years-old today, had she not passed away in the US in 1958.

Ryan Palmer: "You don't need any help scaring the birds away Chad"

 

First round of the first tournament of the first Fall Series... were there any more firsts?: Jeff Gove made his first shot from the fairway all year after holing a 100 yard sand-wedge for eagle to put him at joint first with Chad Campbell on seven-under.
And who else is up there?: John Senden, Steve Flesch, Matthew Goggin and Brendon de Jonge are all one shot back on six-under. Goggin and de Jonge actually had a share of the lead but both dropped a shot at the last hole.
Goggin and de Jonge? They sound like an upmarket jewellery shop...: Umm well they're not.
Fair enough. Anything else of interest happen?: John Daly had to withdraw after seven holes after complaining of flu. He had shot three bogies and three putted the seventh by this point...
What are you suggesting?: Nothing... nothing... just a bit suspicious that he stopped once he got to three over.
Or he could just have had the flu of course: I guess. Or maybe he had some plans for the weekend and was just pulling a sickie.
That reminds me...I've got a migraine – got to go.: ...

 Team photo for the 23rd PGA Cup, Oconee Course, Reynolds Plantation, September 19, 2007.