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Saturday 15 June 1929AmateurYear in Review

Tolley wins the Amateur

Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich, England · Monday 10 to Saturday 15 June 1929

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 20 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 62° up at noon, and that night a first-quarter 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

Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Cyril Tolley

4 & 3 (36-hole final)Final

Runner-up: John Nelson Smith

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1895-09-14, Brockley, England; England; age 33 at the win (year page)

Cyril Tolley’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