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Saturday 27 May 1950AmateurYear in Review
Stranahan wins the Amateur
St Andrews Links, St Andrews, Scotland · Monday 22 to Saturday 27 May 1950
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 46 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).
- R111°/9°C · wind 20 km/h NE, gusts 34 · 5.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R210°/8°C · wind 17 km/h NE, gusts 32 · 1.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R311°/7°C · wind 21 km/h NE, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R410°/6°C · wind 20 km/h NE, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R514°/5°C · wind 23 km/h WSW, gusts 36 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R612°/9°C · wind 32 km/h WSW, gusts 61 · 1.2 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
St Andrews Links (Old Course), St Andrews
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Dick Chapman
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1922-08-05, Toledo, Ohio, U.S.; United States; age 27 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