1893 Amateur Championship: Peter Anderson wins at Prestwick Golf Club
Peter Anderson won the 1893 Amateur Championship at Prestwick Golf Club in Prestwick, South Ayrshire, beating Johnny Laidlay 1 up in the final.
Updated 23 October 2026
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- Edition
- 9th
- Dates
- 9 May 1893 to 11 May 1893
- Course
- Prestwick Golf Club, Prestwick, South Ayrshire
- Format
- match play
- Champion
- Peter Anderson · age 22 · Scotland · St Andrews University
- Champion's title
- 1st Amateur Championship title
- Runner-up
- Johnny Laidlay · age 32 · Scotland
- Final
- 1 up (18-hole final)
- Match-play field
- 44
- Losing semifinalists
- Freddie Tait and Samuel Mure Fergusson
- Defending champion
- John Ball · lost in round of 16
- Entries
- 44
What happened at the 1893 Amateur Championship
Semi-final: Johnny Laidlay and Freddie Tait halved the 18 and Laidlay won the first extra hole when Tait missed a four-foot putt; earlier Tait had beaten Harold Hilton 3 & 2
Final: divinity student Peter Anderson beat Laidlay by one hole
The draw
Every match is recorded through the round of 16.
The final, 1893 Amateur Championship
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Anderson | def. | Johnny Laidlay | 1 up |
Semifinals, 1893 Amateur Championship
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnny Laidlay | def. | Freddie Tait | won on 19th hole |
| Peter Anderson | def. | Samuel Mure Fergusson | 2 up |
Quarterfinals, 1893 Amateur Championship
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freddie Tait | def. | W. Greig | 2 & 1 |
| Johnny Laidlay | def. | Robert Adam | 5 & 4 |
| Peter Anderson | def. | D. Bone | 7 & 6 |
| Samuel Mure Fergusson | def. | C. E. Dick | 1 up |
Round of 16, 1893 Amateur Championship
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| W. Greig | def. | C. K. Aitken | 1 up |
| Freddie Tait | def. | Leslie Balfour-Melville | 2 & 1 |
| Robert Adam | def. | L. S. Anderson | 2 & 1 |
| Johnny Laidlay | def. | H. S. C. Everard | 5 & 3 |
| D. Bone | def. | W. H. Burn | 2 & 1 |
| Peter Anderson | def. | T. B. Pease | 3 & 2 |
| Samuel Mure Fergusson | def. | John Ball | 3 & 2 |
| C. E. Dick | def. | F. A. Fairlie | 7 & 6 |
How this was built
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's Amateur Championship data set (research collected through 20 October 2026). "unknown" means no source confirmed it; nothing is estimated. Where sources disagree, the R&A's own record is used.
Values found only on Wikipedia, kept and flagged: champion_nationality, runner_up_nationality.
Data: the-amateur.json.