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Sunday 27 August 2006AmateurYear in Review
Ramsay wins U.S. Amateur
Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minnesota · Monday 21 to Sunday 27 August 2006 · 106th U.S. Amateur; stroke-play qualifying on Hazeltine National and the Chaska Town Course, match play at Hazeltine National (7,473 yards, par 72); Thursday's second round suspended 4 hr 24 min for dangerous weather, third round and quarterfinals both played Friday; 36-hole final Sunday 27 August
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
13 h 17 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 55° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R128°/16°C · wind 12 km/h WSW, gusts 26 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R227°/16°C · wind 8 km/h NNE, gusts 20 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R329°/18°C · wind 18 km/h SE, gusts 48 · 5.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R424°/18°C · wind 24 km/h E, gusts 51 · 12.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R524°/18°C · wind 16 km/h NNE, gusts 36 · 7.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R625°/16°C · wind 12 km/h NNE, gusts 27 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R727°/16°C · wind 7 km/h SE, gusts 17 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- U.S. Amateur
1895–2026 in our record, 126 editions.
The ones it got away from
- John Kelly USA · lost 4 and 2Ramsay won four of six holes with birdies to go 3 up after 13; Kelly cut it to 1 up with a birdie at the 21st but got no closer, and conceded Ramsay's 12-foot birdie on the 34th green after his own birdie putt lipped out US Amateur: Ramsay def Kelly, 4&2 for Title (AmateurGolf.com)
312 started
Same week
Men's amateur championship
U.S. Amateur
Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: John Kelly
To par not yet researched.
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
27 August 2006
But if you can do it here, you can do it anywhere because you don't get bigger than a U.S. Amateur. You don't get bigger than the final.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
27 August 2006
I think it will have a big impact on Scottish golf. You know, I'm just a guy from Aberdeen who I love playing golf,
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
27 August 2006
He kept hitting shot after shot after shot. Just great golf. I mean, drove me crazy, but he was something else today.
AmateurGolf.com
27 August 2006
But I can’t be too disappointed. I was a nobody and now I’m a somebody, I think.
The golfer
born 1983-06-15, Aberdeen, Scotland; SCO; turned pro 2007; age 23 that week.
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet