When innovation meets tradition, even trophies learn to fly. Some missions don’t come with a map — and some are never forgotten. In 2021, a man who had spent his life turning the sky into his home was given a task unlike anything he had faced before: delivering the Ryder Cup Trophy across the Atlantic. The idea came from BMW, Worldwide Partner of the Ryder Cup, who envisioned something truly extraordinary.
Not a handoff. Not a trophy locked inside a cargo plane. But a story connecting two continents, two cultures, and one shared passion for pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Austrian BASE jumper and wingsuit pilot Peter Salzmann carried one of sport’s most iconic trophies to Whistling Straits, Wisconsin — the only way he knew how: through the sky. Some moments are bigger than the jump itself. This was one of them.
