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Saturday 4 June 1988AmateurYear in Review
Härdin wins the Amateur
Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, Porthcawl, Wales · Monday 30 May to Saturday 4 June 1988
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 11 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 61° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R113°/10°C · wind 39 km/h WSW, gusts 65 · 6.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R213°/10°C · wind 36 km/h W, gusts 57 · 4.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R314°/10°C · wind 29 km/h WSW, gusts 48 · 0.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R414°/11°C · wind 30 km/h WSW, gusts 53 · 6.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R513°/11°C · wind 34 km/h WSW, gusts 58 · 4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R615°/10°C · wind 27 km/h NW, gusts 49 · 0.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- 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.
Men's amateur championship
The Amateur
Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, Porthcawl
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ben Fouchee
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
Sweden; age 24 at the win (year page)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet