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Saturday 7 June 1997AmateurYear in Review
Watson wins the Amateur
Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich, England · Monday 2 to Saturday 7 June 1997 · Stroke-play qualifying over Royal St George's and Royal Cinque Ports (R&A results book)
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 12 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 61° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R117°/13°C · wind 36 km/h NE, gusts 61 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R216°/12°C · wind 24 km/h NE, gusts 42 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R315°/12°C · wind 18 km/h NE, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R421°/13°C · wind 27 km/h E, gusts 48 · 0.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R523°/16°C · wind 25 km/h SSE, gusts 44 · 1.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R620°/16°C · wind 23 km/h SSW, gusts 41 · 4.4 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
- Trevor Immelman RSA · 3 and 2Led by two holes after the morning 18 of the 36-hole final; lost the 10th of the afternoon after four attempts to escape a greenside bunker, and Watson closed it out at the 16th Scotland's Watson wins British Amateur Championship (GOLFonline, 7 June 1997, Wayback)
Same week
Men's amateur championship
The Amateur
Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Trevor Immelman
To par not yet researched.
From the papers
GOLFonline (Golf Magazine)
7 June 1997
It would have gone 30 yards down the hill
The golfer
born in Glasgow, Scotland; SCO; age 31 that week.
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet