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Saturday 18 June 2016AmateurYear in Review

Gregory wins the Amateur

Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, Porthcawl, Wales · Monday 13 to Saturday 18 June 2016 · 121st Amateur Championship; 36-hole stroke play at Royal Porthcawl and Pyle & Kenfig, match play at Royal Porthcawl; 36-hole final Saturday 18 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 24 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).

  1. R116°/14°C · wind 23 km/h W, gusts 42 · 2.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R216°/14°C · wind 28 km/h W, gusts 51 · 3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R317°/13°C · wind 16 km/h WNW, gusts 34 · 10.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R418°/13°C · wind 21 km/h NW, gusts 37 · 5.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R517°/13°C · wind 23 km/h NW, gusts 40 · 4.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  6. R616°/12°C · wind 23 km/h WNW, gusts 43 · 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 Porthcawl Golf Club, Porthcawl

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Scott Gregory

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

Runner-up: Robert MacIntyre

To par not yet researched.

From the papers

Daily Echo

I kept telling myself if I got chances, I’ve got to take them because that’s what people who win these championships do.

Scott Gregory, quoted in Daily Echo, 18 June 2016. The report

Daily Echo

Luck went my way a little bit, that definitely helped. I got a couple of lies where I shouldn’t have had lies

Scott Gregory, quoted in Daily Echo, 18 June 2016. The report

Daily Echo

I knew that putt on 17 was the moment I needed to make it so it was nice to do it.

Scott Gregory, quoted in Daily Echo, 18 June 2016. The report
The golfer

born 1994-10-01, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England; ENG; age 21 that week.

Scott Gregory’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet