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Saturday 21 June 2008AmateurYear in Review

Saxton wins the Amateur

Turnberry, Turnberry, Scotland · Monday 16 to Saturday 21 June 2008 · 113th Amateur Championship; 36-hole stroke-play qualifying on Turnberry's Ailsa and Kintyre courses, match play on the Ailsa; 36-hole final Saturday 21 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

17 h 10 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 58° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R114°/9°C · wind 16 km/h WNW, gusts 33 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R214°/12°C · wind 28 km/h SSW, gusts 56 · 5.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R316°/11°C · wind 27 km/h SSW, gusts 52 · 7.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R414°/11°C · wind 32 km/h W, gusts 62 · 2.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R514°/8°C · wind 21 km/h W, gusts 43 · 1.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  6. R614°/8°C · wind 26 km/h ESE, gusts 49 · 13.2 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

Turnberry (Ailsa Course), Turnberry

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Reinier Saxton

3 & 2 (36-hole final)Final
3 and 2Margin

Runner-up: Tommy Fleetwood

To par not yet researched.

From the papers

AmateurGolf.com (R&A report)

I felt quite relaxed. Of course you're going to feel a little pressure over the last few holes, but I just had to stay focused whatever happened. Even when you're three holes ahead you can still lose.

Reinier Saxton, quoted in AmateurGolf.com (R&A report), 21 June 2008. The report

AmateurGolf.com

It doesn't feel like it's sunk in yet. I just feel like I've won a few match play rounds.

Reinier Saxton, quoted in AmateurGolf.com, 20 June 2008. The report

AmateurGolf.com (R&A report)

He deserved to win more than me. I can't be disapointed - I did better than 286 other golfers but I would have liked to have won.

Tommy Fleetwood, quoted in AmateurGolf.com (R&A report), 21 June 2008. The report
The golfer

born 1988-02-10, Amstelveen, Netherlands; NED; turned pro 2009; age 20 that week.

Reinier Saxton’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet