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Sunday 30 August 1987AmateurYear in Review

Mayfair wins U.S. Amateur

Jupiter Hills Club, Jupiter, Florida · Tuesday 25 to Sunday 30 August 1987

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 35 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 72° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R131°/26°C · wind 18 km/h E, gusts 35 · 0.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R232°/27°C · wind 23 km/h E, gusts 42 · 2.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R331°/27°C · wind 22 km/h E, gusts 39 · 1.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R431°/27°C · wind 19 km/h E, gusts 36 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R532°/26°C · wind 17 km/h ESE, gusts 34 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  6. R631°/27°C · wind 19 km/h E, gusts 38 · 1.9 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

Jupiter Hills Club (Hills Course), Jupiter

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Billy Mayfair

4 & 3Final

Runner-up: Eric Rebmann

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1966, Phoenix, AZ; age 21 at the win (year page)

Billy Mayfair’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