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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).
- R116°/14°C · wind 23 km/h W, gusts 42 · 2.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R216°/14°C · wind 28 km/h W, gusts 51 · 3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R317°/13°C · wind 16 km/h WNW, gusts 34 · 10.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R418°/13°C · wind 21 km/h NW, gusts 37 · 5.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R517°/13°C · wind 23 km/h NW, gusts 40 · 4.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- 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
- The Amateur
1885–2026 in our record, 131 editions.
The ones it got away from
- Robert MacIntyre SCO · lost 2 and 1Cut Gregory's 3-up lead to 1 after 18 holes and went 1 up early in the afternoon round, but Gregory regained the lead, holed a key putt at the 17th (35th) and won 2 and 1 Corhampton golfer Scott Gregory wins the British Amateur Championship in Wales (Daily Echo)
Same week
Men's amateur championship
The Amateur
Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, Porthcawl
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Robert MacIntyre
To par not yet researched.
From the papers
Daily Echo
18 June 2016
I kept telling myself if I got chances, I’ve got to take them because that’s what people who win these championships do.
Daily Echo
18 June 2016
Luck went my way a little bit, that definitely helped. I got a couple of lies where I shouldn’t have had lies
Daily Echo
18 June 2016
I knew that putt on 17 was the moment I needed to make it so it was nice to do it.
The golfer
born 1994-10-01, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England; ENG; age 21 that week.
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet