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Sunday 22 June 2014AmateurYear in Review

Neil wins the Amateur

Royal Portrush Golf Club, Portrush, Northern Ireland · Monday 16 to Sunday 22 June 2014 · 119th Amateur Championship; stroke-play qualifying at Royal Portrush and Portstewart, match play at Royal Portrush; 36-hole final

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 09 m

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

  1. R118°/11°C · wind 16 km/h N, gusts 36 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R218°/13°C · wind 13 km/h NNW, gusts 29 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R318°/13°C · wind 19 km/h NNW, gusts 36 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R415°/12°C · wind 22 km/h NNW, gusts 43 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R516°/12°C · wind 21 km/h NNW, gusts 37 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  6. R616°/11°C · wind 21 km/h NW, gusts 42 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  7. R717°/10°C · wind 15 km/h NNW, gusts 28 · 0 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

Royal Portrush Golf Club (Dunluce), Portrush

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Bradley Neil

2 & 1 (36-hole final)Final
2 and 1 (36-hole final)Margin

Runner-up: Zander Lombard

To par not yet researched.

From the papers

Golfweek via AmateurGolf.com (said on the eve of the final)

I never thought I could have this good a season. All the events I've played in and all the work I've done has built up to this event, to this moment, this final. I feel this week is my time.

Bradley Neil, quoted in Golfweek via AmateurGolf.com (said on the eve of the final), 21 June 2014. The report
The golfer

born 1996-01-16, Blairgowrie, Scotland; SCO; age 18 that week.

Bradley Neil’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet