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Sunday 21 August 2016AmateurYear in Review
Luck wins U.S. Amateur
Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan · Monday 15 to Sunday 21 August 2016 · 116th U.S. Amateur; stroke-play qualifying on Oakland Hills' South and North courses, match play on the South Course; 36-hole final Sunday Aug 21
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
13 h 25 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 59° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R127°/20°C · wind 12 km/h SSW, gusts 26 · 4.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R227°/22°C · wind 28 km/h SW, gusts 63 · 36.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R329°/20°C · wind 14 km/h SW, gusts 35 · 3.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R429°/19°C · wind 11 km/h WSW, gusts 20 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R529°/20°C · wind 14 km/h SSW, gusts 32 · 3.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R629°/21°C · wind 26 km/h S, gusts 55 · 6.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R724°/18°C · wind 22 km/h W, gusts 48 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- U.S. Amateur
1895–2026 in our record, 126 editions.
The ones it got away from
- Brad Dalke USA · lost 6 and 4Won the 19th to go 1 up after an all-square morning, then bogeyed 21 and 22 and five holes in all during Luck's eight-hole run; conceded after missing a par putt on the 32nd hole Australia's Curtis Luck wins U.S. Amateur with stirring 8-hole run (AP via ESPN)
Same week
Men's amateur championship
U.S. Amateur
Oakland Hills Country Club (South Course), Bloomfield Township
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Brad Dalke
To par not yet researched.
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
21 August 2016
I thought, hang on, I'm 7 up and I was 1-down through the first hole of the second 18. I turned to dad, and I said, I've just won eight holes in a row
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
21 August 2016
If someone had come up to me walking from the 17th tee to the green and said, we think you're going to win, I would have laughed at them and said, nice one, mate.
Associated Press (via ESPN)
21 August 2016
He's never out of a hole. He could be in a trash can 20 yards from the green and still get up-and-down.
The golfer
born 1996-08-09, Perth, Western Australia; AUS; age 20 that week.
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet