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Saturday 31 May 1947AmateurYear in Review
Turnesa wins the Amateur
Carnoustie Golf Links, Carnoustie, Scotland · Monday 26 to Saturday 31 May 1947
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 59 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 55° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R116°/10°C · wind 18 km/h SSE, gusts 37 · 0.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R216°/11°C · wind 21 km/h SW, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R316°/9°C · wind 18 km/h S, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R418°/12°C · wind 15 km/h S, gusts 23 · 3.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R516°/11°C · wind 17 km/h NE, gusts 30 · 6.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R615°/10°C · wind 16 km/h NE, gusts 27 · 5.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
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
Carnoustie Golf Links (Championship), Carnoustie
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Dick Chapman
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1914-01-20, Elmsford, New York, U.S.; United States; age 33 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