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Sunday 2 September 1973AmateurYear in Review

Stadler wins U.S. Amateur

Inverness Club, Toledo, Ohio · Tuesday 28 August to Sunday 2 September 1973

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 53 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 56° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R136°/23°C · wind 15 km/h W, gusts 31 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R234°/21°C · wind 13 km/h W, gusts 26 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R330°/21°C · wind 11 km/h SW, gusts 32 · 3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R432°/20°C · wind 16 km/h SSW, gusts 36 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R533°/22°C · wind 17 km/h SSW, gusts 35 · 0.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  6. R635°/21°C · wind 8 km/h SW, gusts 23 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course 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

Inverness Club, Toledo

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Craig Stadler

6 & 5Final

Runner-up: David Strawn

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1953-06-02, San Diego, California, USA; United States; age 20 at the win (year page)

Craig Stadler’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