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Sunday 30 August 2020AmateurYear in Review
Long wins the Amateur
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England · Tuesday 25 to Sunday 30 August 2020 · 125th Amateur Championship, played in late August at Royal Birkdale behind closed doors (COVID-19) instead of its usual June slot; Tuesday's storms abandoned the first round of stroke-play qualifying, so qualifying was 18 holes. Original 2020 dates not found in an opened source.
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 29 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 44° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R119°/16°C · wind 46 km/h SSW, gusts 74 · 31.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R217°/15°C · wind 49 km/h WNW, gusts 73 · 5.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R316°/13°C · wind 20 km/h SE, gusts 31 · 6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R415°/13°C · wind 31 km/h NNE, gusts 48 · 11.9 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R515°/12°C · wind 29 km/h N, gusts 44 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R614°/10°C · wind 18 km/h N, gusts 28 · 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
- Joe Harvey ENG · lost 4 and 3Never led; cut Long's lunch lead of two to one at the 19th, but bogeyed the 28th and 29th to fall four down and lost on the 33rd when Long holed a 15-foot birdie putt to halve it Joe Long Wins The Amateur (The R&A, 30 August 2020)
Same week
Men's amateur championship
The Amateur
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Joe Harvey
To par not yet researched.
From the papers
The R&A
30 August 2020
That sounds amazing, 125th Amateur Champion has quite a nice ring to it.
The R&A
30 August 2020
I was never behind and just stuck at it. I have been behind in a lot of matches before and still turned it around but it is always hard when you are up against it.
Golfweek/USA Today
30 August 2020
If you had said at the beginning of the week that I would be in the final I don't think I would have believed you. I am really chuffed with the way I have played all week,
The golfer
born 1997-05-21, Bristol, England; ENG; turned pro 2021; age 23 that week; world No. 103 that week (World Amateur Golf Ranking No. 103 as stated by The R&A (Golfweek says No. 102)).
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet