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Saturday 30 May 1953AmateurYear in Review
Carr wins the Amateur
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, England · Monday 25 to Saturday 30 May 1953
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 58° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R124°/13°C · wind 20 km/h S, gusts 41 · 11 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R219°/11°C · wind 24 km/h W, gusts 49 · 1.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R317°/10°C · wind 29 km/h NW, gusts 61 · 2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R414°/10°C · wind 22 km/h NW, gusts 47 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R515°/12°C · wind 29 km/h WNW, gusts 60 · 0.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R614°/10°C · wind 33 km/h NW, gusts 65 · 2.4 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
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Harvie Ward
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1922-02-22, Inchicore, Ireland; Ireland; age 31 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