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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 · R&A results book: 4-9 June 2001; 36-hole stroke-play qualifying at Prestwick and Kilmarnock (Barassie), 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
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
- Ian Campbell WAL · lost 1 downLost the 36-hole final by one hole R&A Championships and International Matches 1984-2012: Results
Same week
Men's amateur championship
The Amateur
Prestwick Golf Club, Prestwick
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ian Campbell
To par not yet researched.
The golfer
born 1979-02-13, Ballymoney, Northern Ireland; NIR; turned pro 2002; age 22 that week.
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet