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Saturday 13 September 1958AmateurYear in Review

Coe wins U.S. Amateur

Olympic Club, San Francisco, California · Monday 8 to Saturday 13 September 1958

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 55° up at noon, and that night a new moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R125°/16°C · wind 17 km/h WSW, gusts 38 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R224°/15°C · wind 19 km/h W, gusts 38 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R324°/16°C · wind 19 km/h W, gusts 38 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R422°/13°C · wind 20 km/h W, gusts 46 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R523°/15°C · wind 18 km/h WSW, gusts 40 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  6. R625°/14°C · wind 19 km/h WNW, gusts 44 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. 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 Olympic Club (Lake Course), San Francisco

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Charles Coe

5 & 4Final

Runner-up: Tommy Aaron

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1923-10-26, Ardmore, Oklahoma, U.S.; United States; age 34 at the win (year page)

Charles Coe’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