Golf Network News
Sunday 25 August 1996AmateurYear in Review
Woods wins U.S. Amateur
Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, North Plains, Oregon · Monday 19 to Sunday 25 August 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
13 h 23 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 54° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R126°/11°C · wind 14 km/h NW, gusts 37 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R223°/14°C · wind 9 km/h WNW, gusts 18 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R328°/11°C · wind 14 km/h N, gusts 32 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R433°/13°C · wind 16 km/h N, gusts 36 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R534°/17°C · wind 15 km/h NNW, gusts 34 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R635°/19°C · wind 14 km/h NNW, gusts 33 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R733°/20°C · wind 11 km/h WNW, gusts 26 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- 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
Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club (Witch Hollow Course), North Plains
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Steve Scott
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1975-12-30, Cypress, California, USA; United States; age 20 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