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Saturday 4 June 2005AmateurYear in Review

McElhinney wins the Amateur

Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England · Monday 30 May to Saturday 4 June 2005 · 110th Amateur Championship; stroke-play qualifying on Royal Birkdale and Southport & Ainsdale, match play at Royal Birkdale; 36-hole final Saturday 4 June

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 32 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 59° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R113°/9°C · wind 20 km/h NW, gusts 32 · 1.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R214°/10°C · wind 12 km/h NNW, gusts 20 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R316°/12°C · wind 24 km/h S, gusts 39 · 16.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R416°/14°C · wind 24 km/h SW, gusts 38 · 2.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R516°/12°C · wind 22 km/h SW, gusts 35 · 0.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  6. R615°/12°C · wind 31 km/h WSW, gusts 46 · 1.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

  1. The Amateur

1885–2026 in our record, 131 editions.

The ones it got away from

Same week

Men's amateur championship

The Amateur

Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Brian McElhinney

5 & 4 (36-hole final)Final
5 and 4Margin

Runner-up: John Gallagher

To par not yet researched.

From the papers

AmateurGolf.com (R&A report)

It's a hell of a hard game when you're down all the time and although I'm disappointed I'm also delighted with how far I got.

John Gallagher, quoted in AmateurGolf.com (R&A report), 4 June 2005. The report
The golfer

IRL.

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet