Golf Network News
Thursday 11 May 1893AmateurYear in Review
Anderson wins the Amateur
Prestwick Golf Club, Prestwick, Scotland · Tuesday 9 to Thursday 11 May 1893
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 52° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
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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
Prestwick Golf Club, Prestwick
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Johnny Laidlay
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1871, Menmuir, Forfarshire, Scotland; Scotland; age 22 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