Golf Network News
Thursday 9 May 1889AmateurYear in Review
Laidlay wins the Amateur
St Andrews Links, St Andrews, Scotland · Tuesday 7 to Thursday 9 May 1889
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
15 h 42 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 51° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R1Not yet researched
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The name over time
- The Amateur
1885–2026 in our record, 131 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's amateur championship
The Amateur
St Andrews Links (Old Course), St Andrews
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Leslie Balfour-Melville
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1860-11-05, Seacliff, East Lothian, Scotland; Scotland; age 28 at the win (year page)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet