Which Player Has the Worst Winning Percentage in Ryder Cup Competition?

Question: Which Player Has the Worst Winning Percentage in Ryder Cup Competition?

To find out who has the worst winning percentage, we have to look at won-loss records in Ryder Cup competition, of course. But we also have to decide on a minimum number of matches played. We don't want to "give" this record to someone who lost the only match he played.

So for this question, we are only considering golfers who played in at least five Ryder Cup matches - or golfers who played in four matches but over two Ryder Cup competitions. With these provisos in mind, here's the answer:

Answer: There are three golfers who played at least five matches for Great Britain without winning any of them. And unfortunately, Alf Padgham is burdened with holding the record for worst Ryder Cup winning percentage on the "strength" of having lost more matches than the other two non-winners. Padgham went 0-7-0 in his Ryder Cup matches for a .000 winning percentage.

Here are the worst winning percentages for each side (records are W-L-H - wins, losses and halves):

Team USA
Fuzzy Zoeller, 1-8-1, .150
Jerry Barber, 1-4-0, .200
Olin Dutra, 1-3-0, .250
Tommy Aaron, 1-4-1, .250
Miller Barber, 1-4-2, .286
Ben Crenshaw, 3-8-1, .292

Team GB/GB&I/Europe
Alf Padgham, 0-7-0, .000
Tom Haliburton, 0-6-0, .000
John Panton, 0-5-0, .000
Max Faulkner, 1-7-0, .125
Charles Ward, 1-5-0, .167
Eamonn Darcy, 1-8-2, .182
Tommy Horton, 1-6-1, .188

See Page 2 of our Ryder Cup records section for more of the worst winning percentages.

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