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Saturday 28 May 1938AmateurYear in Review
Yates wins the Amateur
Royal Troon Golf Club, Troon, Scotland · Monday 23 to Saturday 28 May 1938
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 39 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 56° up at noon, and that night a new moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R1Not yet researched
- R2Not yet researched
- R3Not yet researched
- R4Not yet researched
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
Troon Golf Club (Old Course; now Royal Troon), Troon
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Cecil Ewing
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1913-09-09, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.; United States; age 24 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