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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).

  1. R118°/14°C · wind 30 km/h SW, gusts 54 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R219°/14°C · wind 33 km/h SW, gusts 53 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R318°/13°C · wind 33 km/h SW, gusts 56 · 1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R419°/12°C · wind 26 km/h WSW, gusts 48 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R519°/11°C · wind 11 km/h S, gusts 25 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  6. 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

  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 St George's Golf Club, Sandwich

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Julien Guerrier

4 & 3 (36-hole final)Final
4 and 3Margin

Runner-up: Adam Gee

To par not yet researched.

From the papers

AmateurGolf.com (R&A report)

This is a dream for me,

Julien Guerrier, quoted in AmateurGolf.com (R&A report), 24 June 2006. The report

AmateurGolf.com (R&A report)

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.

Julien Guerrier, quoted in AmateurGolf.com (R&A report), 24 June 2006. The report

AmateurGolf.com (R&A report)

I didn't play as well as I can, to be honest. I'm very disappointed.

Adam Gee, quoted in AmateurGolf.com (R&A report), 24 June 2006. The report
The golfer

born 1985-07-01, Évreux, France; FRA; turned pro 2007; age 20 that week.

Julien Guerrier’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet