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Saturday 24 June 2006AmateurYear in Review
Guerrier wins the Amateur
Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich, England · Monday 19 to Saturday 24 June 2006 · stroke-play qualifying on Royal St George's and Prince's, match play at Royal St George's; 36-hole final Saturday 24 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 21 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 62° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R118°/14°C · wind 30 km/h SW, gusts 54 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R219°/14°C · wind 33 km/h SW, gusts 53 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R318°/13°C · wind 33 km/h SW, gusts 56 · 1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R419°/12°C · wind 26 km/h WSW, gusts 48 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R519°/11°C · wind 11 km/h S, gusts 25 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R620°/14°C · wind 14 km/h ESE, gusts 24 · 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
- Adam Gee ENG · lost 4 and 3Squared the second 18 with a 25-foot birdie at the fifth, but Guerrier set up an eagle at the seventh and won the eighth, ninth and tenth; a halved 14th and a lost 15th ended it British Amateur: Guerrier is France's second champ (AmateurGolf.com)
Same week
Men's amateur championship
The Amateur
Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Adam Gee
To par not yet researched.
From the papers
AmateurGolf.com (R&A report)
24 June 2006
This is a dream for me,
AmateurGolf.com (R&A report)
24 June 2006
I can't wait to get to Hoylake. I played it in the Boys Championship and it was very tough. I didn't do too well but hope to play better this time.
AmateurGolf.com (R&A report)
24 June 2006
I didn't play as well as I can, to be honest. I'm very disappointed.
The golfer
born 1985-07-01, Évreux, France; FRA; turned pro 2007; age 20 that week.
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet