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Friday 22 May 1903AmateurYear in Review

Maxwell wins the Amateur

Muirfield, Gullane, Scotland · Monday 18 to Friday 22 May 1903

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

16 h 27 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 54° 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

  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

Muirfield, Gullane

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Robert Maxwell

7 & 5 (36-hole final)Final

Runner-up: Horace Hutchinson

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1876-05-12, Edinburgh, Scotland; Scotland; age 27 at the win (year page)

Robert Maxwell’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet