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Saturday 8 June 1985AmateurYear in Review
McGimpsey wins the Amateur
Royal Dornoch Golf Club, Dornoch, Scotland · Monday 3 to Saturday 8 June 1985
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
17 h 37 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 55° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R1Not yet researched
- R2Not yet researched
- R3Not yet researched
- R4Not yet researched
The name over time
- The Amateur
1885–2026 in our record, 131 editions.
The ones it got away from
- Graham Homewood ENGlost the final 8 & 7 The Amateur Championship - Wikipedia (saved wikitext mens-amateurs/_src/amat1/wp_amat.txt; table cites the R&A results 1984-2012)
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's amateur championship
The Amateur
Royal Dornoch Golf Club, Dornoch
1 of 5 researched
Winner
Garth McGimpsey
8 & 7 (36-hole final)Final
8 & 7Margin
Runner-up: Graham Homewood
To par not yet researched.
Top 10
Not yet researched
The golfer
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet