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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).
- R114°/9°C · wind 16 km/h WNW, gusts 33 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R214°/12°C · wind 28 km/h SSW, gusts 56 · 5.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R316°/11°C · wind 27 km/h SSW, gusts 52 · 7.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R414°/11°C · wind 32 km/h W, gusts 62 · 2.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R514°/8°C · wind 21 km/h W, gusts 43 · 1.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- 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
- The Amateur
1885–2026 in our record, 131 editions.
The ones it got away from
- Tommy Fleetwood ENG · lost 3 and 2All square at lunch after winning the 17th and 18th; Saxton's par from a plugged lie at the 11th, birdie at 12 and halved bogey at 13 put him three up, and it ended on the 16th green after Fleetwood laid up British Amateur: Saxton is 2nd ever Dutch Champ (AmateurGolf.com)
Same week
Men's amateur championship
The Amateur
Turnberry (Ailsa Course), Turnberry
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Tommy Fleetwood
To par not yet researched.
From the papers
AmateurGolf.com (R&A report)
21 June 2008
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.
AmateurGolf.com
20 June 2008
It doesn't feel like it's sunk in yet. I just feel like I've won a few match play rounds.
AmateurGolf.com (R&A report)
21 June 2008
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.
The golfer
born 1988-02-10, Amstelveen, Netherlands; NED; turned pro 2009; age 20 that week.
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet