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Year in Review
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Two championships in our record: one men’s major and one amateur championship. John Ball won two of them: The Amateur and The Open.
1890, drawn the way the papers pictured golf then: a wood engraving.
Each dot is a championship at the week it finished. Click a dot for its front page, or a week to see it on the world.
Men's major
Prestwick Golf Club, Prestwick
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Archie Simpson, Willie Fernie
To par not yet researched.
b. 1861-12-24, Hoylake, England; England; age 28 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
No women’s major yet. The first in our record is the Women's Western Open, 1930.
Men's amateur championship
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Johnny Laidlay
To par and margin not yet researched.
b. 1861-12-24, Hoylake, England; England; age 28 at the win (year page)
Not yet researched
No bag on file yet
No clipping yet
No women’s amateur in our record for 1890.
Year in Review
Two championships in our record: one men’s major and one amateur championship. John Ball won two of them: The Amateur and The Open.
To be written The synopsis of 1890: 150 to 250 words on the season’s story, its turning points and why it mattered, written from sourced research.
To be written How each was won: the leader after 54 holes, the decisive shot, the runner-up, the weather.
To be written The amateur season: champions, finals, and who went on to turn professional.
2 tour events are laid out week by week for 1890.
To be written Money lists, players of the year, rookies and the shape of each tour’s season, from the tours’ own records.
John Ball won two championships in our record (The Amateur and The Open).
To be written Who defined 1890: their wins, their near misses, and what the year meant for their career.
To be written First-time major winners, scoring records, youngest and oldest champions, last appearances, events played for the first or last time.
To be written Equipment, rules and course changes, prize money, television and the business of golf that year.
Every count above is from Golf Network News’s record; the parts marked “To be written” are filled only from sourced research.
Every championship here comes from Golf Network News's own record: the rooms for the majors, the women's majors, the amateur championships and the team cups. A part that says it is not yet researched is exactly that. We fill it from sourced material, never with a guess.
The picture at the top is drawn in code for each year. It is printed the way golf was printed that year: wood engravings before 1900, newsprint halftones to 1945, hand-tinted plates to 1969, colour film to 1999, and digital light since. The names engraved in the numerals are that year's champions.
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