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Saturday 10 June 2000AmateurYear in Review
Ilonen wins the Amateur
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, England · Monday 5 to Saturday 10 June 2000
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 40 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 60° up at noon, and that night a first-quarter moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R115°/10°C · wind 9 km/h NW, gusts 23 · 1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R216°/9°C · wind 28 km/h W, gusts 63 · 6.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R318°/10°C · wind 14 km/h WSW, gusts 31 · 0.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R420°/12°C · wind 22 km/h S, gusts 51 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R512°/10°C · wind 17 km/h NW, gusts 46 · 8.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R618°/10°C · wind 24 km/h SW, gusts 49 · 0 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
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's amateur championship
The Amateur
Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake
2 of 5 researched
Winner
2 & 1 (36-hole final)Final
Runner-up: Christian Reimbold
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
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