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Saturday 8 June 1996AmateurYear in Review

Bladon wins the Amateur

Turnberry, Turnberry, Scotland · Monday 3 to Saturday 8 June 1996

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 01 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 58° up at noon, and that night a last-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R113°/10°C · wind 36 km/h S, gusts 67 · 7.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R215°/10°C · wind 29 km/h SSW, gusts 53 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R316°/11°C · wind 36 km/h S, gusts 70 · 3.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R417°/11°C · wind 13 km/h S, gusts 24 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R516°/11°C · wind 18 km/h S, gusts 33 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  6. R616°/10°C · wind 25 km/h SSW, gusts 44 · 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

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