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Saturday 10 June 1995AmateurYear in Review

Sherry wins the Amateur

Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, England · Monday 5 to Saturday 10 June 1995

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 60° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R114°/9°C · wind 16 km/h WNW, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R216°/12°C · wind 21 km/h WNW, gusts 43 · 0.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R313°/9°C · wind 28 km/h NW, gusts 59 · 0.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R413°/10°C · wind 25 km/h NW, gusts 56 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R514°/10°C · wind 26 km/h NW, gusts 55 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  6. R613°/10°C · wind 24 km/h NW, gusts 48 · 0.7 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

Same week

Men's amateur championship

The Amateur

Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Gordon Sherry

7 & 6 (36-hole final)Final
7&6Margin

Runner-up: Michael Reynard

To par not yet researched.

From the papers

The Independent

Bring on Tiger Woods,

Gordon Sherry, quoted in The Independent, 12 June 1995. The report

The Independent

The Walker Cup is the most important thing to me - to play in it and win. If you don't win, it's an anti-climax.

Gordon Sherry, quoted in The Independent, 12 June 1995. The report
The golfer

born 1974-04-08, Kilmarnock, Scotland; SCO; turned pro 1996; age 21 that week.

Gordon Sherry’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet