Golf Network News
Saturday 14 September 1957AmateurYear in Review
Robbins wins U.S. Amateur
The Country Club, Brookline, Massachusetts · Monday 9 to Saturday 14 September 1957
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
12 h 19 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 50° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R122°/11°C · wind 12 km/h NNE, gusts 24 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R221°/10°C · wind 12 km/h SE, gusts 32 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R325°/15°C · wind 10 km/h S, gusts 22 · 1.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R427°/15°C · wind 14 km/h SSW, gusts 27 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R533°/19°C · wind 18 km/h SW, gusts 45 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R626°/19°C · wind 11 km/h W, gusts 24 · 2.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- U.S. Amateur
1895–2026 in our record, 126 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
U.S. Amateur
The Country Club (Anniversary Course), Brookline
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Bud Taylor
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1932-04-22, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.; United States; age 25 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