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Saturday 12 May 1923AmateurYear in Review

Wethered wins the Amateur

Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, Deal, England · Monday 7 to Saturday 12 May 1923

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 11 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 57° 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

Men's amateur championship

The Amateur

Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, Deal

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Roger Wethered

7 & 6 (36-hole final)Final

Runner-up: Robert Harris

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1899-01-03, New Malden, England; England; age 24 at the win (year page)

Roger Wethered’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