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Saturday 20 June 2015AmateurYear in Review

Langasque wins the Amateur

Carnoustie Golf Links, Carnoustie, Scotland · Monday 15 to Saturday 20 June 2015 · 120th Amateur Championship; stroke-play qualifying at Carnoustie and Panmure, match play at Carnoustie; 36-hole final Saturday 20 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 27 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 57° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R114°/8°C · wind 10 km/h SSE, gusts 23 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R217°/11°C · wind 25 km/h SW, gusts 43 · 2.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R317°/11°C · wind 29 km/h WSW, gusts 49 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R414°/10°C · wind 25 km/h W, gusts 44 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R515°/10°C · wind 17 km/h W, gusts 29 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  6. R617°/11°C · wind 19 km/h SW, gusts 32 · 0.2 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

Carnoustie Golf Links (Championship), Carnoustie

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Romain Langasque

4 & 2 (36-hole final)Final
4 and 2 (36-hole final)Margin

Runner-up: Grant Forrest

To par not yet researched.

From the papers

Golf Monthly

This is just a dream for me. It is just incredible that I am going to play at St Andrews in one month's time for The Open.

Romain Langasque, quoted in Golf Monthly, 20 June 2015. The report

Golf Monthly

The start this afternoon really killed it for me. Coming back from seven down was always going to be a tall order.

Grant Forrest, quoted in Golf Monthly, 20 June 2015. The report
The golfer

born 1995-05-18, Grasse, France; FRA; age 20 that week.

Romain Langasque’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet