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Saturday 9 June 2001AmateurYear in Review
Hoey wins the Amateur
Prestwick Golf Club, Prestwick, Scotland · Monday 4 to Saturday 9 June 2001
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
17 h 04 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 57° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R112°/10°C · wind 23 km/h W, gusts 42 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R212°/10°C · wind 19 km/h WSW, gusts 34 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R312°/8°C · wind 20 km/h W, gusts 35 · 2.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R411°/7°C · wind 28 km/h WNW, gusts 50 · 0.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R511°/6°C · wind 24 km/h WNW, gusts 43 · 1.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R612°/6°C · wind 23 km/h W, gusts 44 · 10.5 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
Prestwick Golf Club, Prestwick
2 of 5 researched
Winner
1 up (36-hole final)Final
Runner-up: Ian Campbell
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
age 22 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