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Sunday 17 June 2007AmateurYear in Review

Ciganda wins Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship

The Alwoodley Golf Club, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England · Tuesday 12 to Sunday 17 June 2007 · 36-hole stroke-play qualifying Jun 12-13, then 64-player match play; the semi-finals were brought forward to Saturday afternoon (Jun 16) and the 18-hole final was played Sunday morning, Jun 17 (KirkwoodGolf); LGU results header lists match play as Jun 14-16

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 50 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 60° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R118°/13°C · wind 17 km/h W, gusts 37 · 2.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R218°/11°C · wind 20 km/h WNW, gusts 38 · 12.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R311°/10°C · wind 28 km/h ENE, gusts 52 · 23.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R412°/10°C · wind 26 km/h NE, gusts 47 · 44.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R516°/10°C · wind 10 km/h W, gusts 23 · 3.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  6. R617°/11°C · wind 15 km/h W, gusts 30 · 1.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis

The name over time

Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.

The ones it got away from

144 started, 64 made it

Same week

Women's amateur championship

Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship

The Alwoodley Golf Club, The Alwoodley Golf Club, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Carlota Ciganda

4 and 3Total
4 and 3Margin

To par and runner-up not yet researched.

From the papers

KirkwoodGolf (Scottish golf news site)

I'm so excited. I didn't believe at the start of the week that I could be the champion.

Carlota Ciganda, quoted in KirkwoodGolf (Scottish golf news site), 17 June 2007. The report
The golfer

born 1990-06-01, Pamplona, Spain; ESP; turned pro 2011; age 17 that week.

Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet