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Saturday 5 June 1999AmateurYear in Review
Storm wins the Amateur
Royal County Down Golf Club, Newcastle, Northern Ireland · Monday 31 May to Saturday 5 June 1999 · R&A results book: 31 May - 5 June 1999; 36-hole stroke play at Royal County Down and Kilkeel, then match play; 36-hole final
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 41 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 58° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R114°/10°C · wind 15 km/h S, gusts 23 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R216°/11°C · wind 13 km/h S, gusts 26 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R314°/10°C · wind 21 km/h NE, gusts 37 · 7.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R414°/11°C · wind 13 km/h W, gusts 17 · 1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R513°/8°C · wind 26 km/h SW, gusts 49 · 4.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R614°/8°C · wind 9 km/h S, gusts 17 · 0.8 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
- Aran Wainwright · lost 7 and 6Beat Trevor Immelman, Kevin Quinn, Marcel Siem and Richard McEvoy (1 hole) to reach the final, then lost the 36-hole final 7 and 6 R&A results book 1984-2012
Same week
Men's amateur championship
The Amateur
Royal County Down Golf Club, Newcastle
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Aran Wainwright
To par not yet researched.
The golfer
born 1978-03-13, Hartlepool, England; ENG; turned pro 2000; age 21 that week.
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet