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Wales|Welshman Dai Rees (b Fontygary, 31st March
1913) was one of the United Kingdom|Britain's
leading golfers either side of World War II. 

Rees is most remembered as the captain of the
Great Britain team which defeated the United
States to win the Ryder Cup at Lindrick Golf Club
in Yorkshire, England in 1957. The score was a
decisive 7.5-4.5. This was the only defeat which
the U.S. suffered in the competition between 1933
and 1985, and the last achieved by Britain's
golfers without the assistance of the rest of
Europe. Following this triumph he won Britain's
best known sports award, the BBC Sports
Personality of the Year, for 1957. In 1958 he was
made a Order of the British Empire|CBE, an rare
honour for a sportsman. Rees played in nine Ryder
Cups in total, and was selected for the aborted
1939 Cup. He has a 7-9-1 win-loss-draw record,
which was well above average for a British player
in an  era when the British team suffered many
heavy defeats.

In individual events, Rees' wins included four
British PGA Championships. He didn't win a
majors|major, but he was runner up in The Open
Championship in 1953, 1954 and 1961. This is as
well as any Welshman has yet finished in The Open.
The PGA European Tour was established in 1970 and
Rees was a member for the first few seasons, but
by then he was past his best. A keen Arsenal
F.C.|Arsenal fan, he was involved in a car crash
on his way back from watching his team play a
match, and failed to recover from his injuries,
dying some months later.
 
Ryder Cup appearances: 1937, 1947, 1949, 1951,
1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961