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Saturday 24 June 2017AmateurYear in Review

Ellis wins the Amateur

Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich, England · Monday 19 to Saturday 24 June 2017 · 122nd Amateur Championship; 36-hole stroke play at Royal St George's and Prince's, match play at Royal St George's; 36-hole final Saturday 24 June went to the 38th hole

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 21 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 62° up at noon, and that night a new moon (computed from the date and the place).

  1. R124°/16°C · wind 14 km/h ENE, gusts 28 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R222°/17°C · wind 21 km/h NE, gusts 38 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R326°/17°C · wind 18 km/h E, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R423°/19°C · wind 28 km/h WSW, gusts 66 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R522°/15°C · wind 29 km/h WSW, gusts 52 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  6. R620°/16°C · wind 33 km/h WSW, gusts 56 · 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 St George's Golf Club, Sandwich

3 of 5 researched

Winner

Harry Ellis

won on 38th hole (36-hole final)Total
won at the 38th hole (36-hole final)Margin

Runner-up: Dylan Perry

To par not yet researched.

From the papers

AmateurGolf.com

I needed to hit a good chip on 15 and I did. I needed to hit a good bunker shot on 16 and I did. Luckily, I hit those shots first and kept putting the pressure on.

Harry Ellis, quoted in AmateurGolf.com, 24 June 2017. The report

Today's Golfer

It's unbelievable, I can't believe what I have just done but you should never give up and never give in

Harry Ellis, quoted in Today's Golfer, 24 June 2017. The report

AmateurGolf.com

I played good all day and then down the stretch – that's what the pressure does to some people.

Dylan Perry, quoted in AmateurGolf.com, 24 June 2017. The report
The golfer

born 1995-09-10, Southampton, England; ENG; age 21 that week.

Harry Ellis’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet