Golf Network News
Sunday 24 August 1997AmateurYear in Review
Kuchar wins U.S. Amateur
Cog Hill Golf & Country Club, Lemont, Illinois · Monday 18 to Sunday 24 August 1997
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 17 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 59° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R120°/16°C · wind 15 km/h NNE, gusts 35 · 2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R221°/14°C · wind 13 km/h E, gusts 26 · 0.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R321°/16°C · wind 17 km/h WNW, gusts 39 · 0.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R421°/14°C · wind 21 km/h NNW, gusts 54 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R523°/12°C · wind 15 km/h NNW, gusts 32 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R624°/11°C · wind 13 km/h WSW, gusts 27 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R724°/17°C · wind 22 km/h W, gusts 47 · 9.2 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
Cog Hill Golf & Country Club (No. 4 Course), Lemont
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Joel Kribel
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1978-06-21, Winter Park, Florida; United States; age 19 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