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Saturday 7 June 1986AmateurYear in Review

Curry wins the Amateur

Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes, England · Monday 2 to Saturday 7 June 1986

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 39 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 59° up at noon, and that night a new moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R113°/11°C · wind 18 km/h WNW, gusts 28 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R212°/9°C · wind 32 km/h WNW, gusts 50 · 2.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R311°/8°C · wind 36 km/h NW, gusts 57 · 1.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R411°/9°C · wind 29 km/h NW, gusts 45 · 0.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R511°/8°C · wind 24 km/h NW, gusts 40 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  6. R612°/8°C · wind 32 km/h WNW, gusts 49 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. 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.