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Friday 10 May 1895AmateurYear in Review

Balfour-Melville wins the Amateur

St Andrews Links, St Andrews, Scotland · Tuesday 7 to Friday 10 May 1895

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 46 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 51° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

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The name over time

  1. 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

Leslie Balfour-Melville

won on 19th hole (18-hole final)Total

Runner-up: John Ball

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1854-03-09, Bonnington, Edinburgh, Scotland; Scotland; age 41 at the win (year page)

Leslie Balfour-Melville’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

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