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Saturday 18 June 2022AmateurYear in Review
Potgieter wins the Amateur
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes, England · Monday 13 to Saturday 18 June 2022
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 49 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 60° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R114°/12°C · wind 25 km/h WNW, gusts 40 · 1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R216°/11°C · wind 15 km/h NW, gusts 25 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R317°/11°C · wind 15 km/h NNW, gusts 24 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R421°/12°C · wind 13 km/h WSW, gusts 16 · 0.4 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R522°/15°C · wind 26 km/h WSW, gusts 38 · 0.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R615°/12°C · wind 23 km/h NW, gusts 37 · 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
- Sam Bairstow ENGSeven down at lunch after Potgieter's bogey-free 66, he won back to two down with four to play, then double-bogeyed the 33rd and lost 3 and 2 at the 34th. The R&A: Teenage sensation Potgieter seals Amateur glory (2022-06-18)
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Same week
Men's amateur championship
The Amateur
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Sam Bairstow
To par not yet researched.
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
18 June 2022
Yeah, really amazing. I can't really -- there's no feeling like having felt this good before, yeah. The words can't even come out of my mind.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
18 June 2022
No. I didn't even know after the round I shot 66. Yeah, golf was good and I just kept my head down and kept going.
The R&A
18 June 2022
I was a bit emotional at the end with everyone cheering but unfortunately I couldn't do it for them.
The golfer
born 2004-09-13, Mossel Bay, South Africa; RSA; age 17 that week.
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet