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Saturday 22 June 2013AmateurYear in Review
Porteous wins the Amateur
Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, Deal, England · Monday 17 to Saturday 22 June 2013 · 118th Amateur Championship; 36-hole stroke play at Royal Cinque Ports and Prince's, then match play at Royal Cinque Ports; 36-hole final Saturday 22 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 waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R117°/13°C · wind 28 km/h NE, gusts 49 · 2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R220°/14°C · wind 19 km/h S, gusts 38 · 1.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R318°/14°C · wind 18 km/h NNE, gusts 31 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R419°/14°C · wind 16 km/h ESE, gusts 30 · 12 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R518°/14°C · wind 28 km/h SW, gusts 46 · 2.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R617°/12°C · wind 43 km/h SW, gusts 77 · 1.5 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
- Toni Hakula FIN · lost 6&5Won the 1st hole but trailed 4 down at the turn and 3 down at lunch; Porteous's birdies at the 23rd and 28th put him 5 up and a bogey at the 31st closed it out Porteous wins Amateur - ends 10-year English drought (Irish Golf Desk, R&A report)
, 72 made it
Same week
Men's amateur championship
The Amateur
Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, Deal
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Toni Hakula
To par not yet researched.
From the papers
Irish Golf Desk (R&A report)
22 June 2013
It’s quite a surreal feeling right now. I know there are a lot of famous names on that trophy. To be alongside them is pretty humbling.
Irish Golf Desk (R&A report)
22 June 2013
It is just over an hour away from my house so there will be a lot of local fans coming out to watch.
Irish Golf Desk (R&A report)
22 June 2013
If somebody had given me a pass to the Final at the start of the week I would have paid $10,000 for it! Hopefully I can come back next year and go one step better.
The golfer
born 1990-01-17, Colchester, England; ENG; age 23 that week.
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet