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Saturday 26 May 1951AmateurYear in Review

Chapman wins the Amateur

Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, Porthcawl, Wales

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 52 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 60° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous 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 Porthcawl Golf Club, Porthcawl

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Dick Chapman

5 & 4 (36-hole final)Final

Runner-up: Charles Coe

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1911-03-23, Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.; United States; age 40 at the win (year page)

Dick Chapman’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