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| Private |
A Private is a soldier of the lowest military rank (equivalent to NATO Rank Grades OR-1 to OR-3 depending on the force served in). The term dates from the Middle Ages, where privates were known as "private soldiers" (a term still used in the United...
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Samuel Jackson Snead (May 27, 1912 – May 23, 2002) was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of four decades. He and two of the other greatest golfers of all time, Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, were born...
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| Arnold Palmer |
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Arnold Daniel Palmer (born September 10, 1929) is an American golfer who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of men's professional golf. He has won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour, dating back...
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| Greg Norman |
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Gregory John Norman AO (born 10 February 1955) is an Australian professional golfer and entrepreneur who spent 331 weeks as the world's number one ranked golfer in the 1980s and 1990s. He is nicknamed, The Great White Shark or sometimes simply The...
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| John Henry Taylor |
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John Henry "J.H." Taylor (19 March 1871 – 10 February 1963) was an English professional golfer and one of the pioneers of the modern game of golf. He was also a significant golf course architect.
Taylor was born in Devon. He was a member of the...
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| Jack Nicklaus |
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Jack William Nicklaus (born January 21, 1940), also known as "The Golden Bear", is regarded by many as the greatest professional golfer of all time. Nicklaus, who holds the record for the most victories in major championships (18), was continuously...
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The Rawls Course |
The Rawls Course, located in Lubbock, Texas, USA, is the home of the Texas Tech Red Raiders golf teams. It is an NCAA championship course constructed through a major gift from Jerry S. Rawls and supported by revenue from students, faculty, staff,...
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| Public |
Public is a word in the English language, either an adjective or a noun with these meanings:- (adjective) "of or pertaining to the people; (adjective) "relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community"; opposed to "private"; (noun) "the...
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| St. Andrews Links |
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St Andrews Links in the town of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, is regarded as the "home of golf". It is the oldest course in the world, where the game has been played since the 15th century. Today there are seven public golf courses; the Balgove, Eden,...
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| University of New Mexico |
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The University of New Mexico (UNM) is in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Founded in 1889, it offers bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs in the arts, sciences, and engineering. Its Albuquerque campus currently encompasses...
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| Gary Player |
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Gary Player (born 1 November 1935) is a South African professional golfer. With his nine major championship victories, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of golf.
Player was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has...
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| The Greenbrier |
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Greenbrier Resort |
The Greenbrier is a Mobil four star and AAA Five Diamond Award winning luxury resort located in the town of White Sulphur Springs in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States.
For most of its history the hotel was owned by the Chesapeake &...
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| Bobby Jones |
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Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. (March 17, 1902 – December 18, 1971) was one of the greatest golfers to compete on a national and international level. He participated only as an amateur, primarily on a part-time basis, and chose to retire from...
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| Old Course at St Andrews |
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St Andrews Links Old Course |
The Old Course at St Andrews is one of the oldest golf courses in the world. The Old Course is a public course over common land in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland and is held in trust by The St Andrews Links Trust under an act of Parliament. The Royal...
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| Royal Montreal Golf Club |
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The Royal Montreal Golf Club is the oldest golf club in the Americas, having been founded in 1873. In that year, a small group of eight gentlemen sat in a dockside office and formed the Montreal Golf Club. Eleven years later, in 1884, permission was...
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| Oakland University |
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Oakland University is a public university whose 1,500-acre campus is located partly in Rochester Hills and partly in Auburn Hills, Michigan. It is the only major research university in Oakland County, from which OU derives its name. The Carnegie...
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| Harry Vardon |
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Harry Vardon (9 May 1870 – 20 March 1937) was a Jersey professional golfer and member of the fabled Great Triumvirate of the sport in his day, along with John Henry Taylor and James Braid. He won The Open Championship a record six times and also won...
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| Byron Nelson |
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John Byron Nelson, Jr. (February 4, 1912 – September 26, 2006) was an American PGA Tour golfer between 1935 and 1946.
He and two other well known golfers of the time, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead, were born within 6 months of each other in 1912. Although...
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| TPC at Sugarloaf |
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Tournament Players Club at Sugarloaf |
TPC at Sugarloaf is a private golf club, located within the gated community at Sugarloaf Country Club in Duluth, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.
The facility consists of three 9-hole golf courses that were designed by Greg Norman, and is a member of...
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| Tom Kite |
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Thomas Oliver Kite, Jr. (born December 9, 1949) is an American professional golfer. He spent 175 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between 1989 and 1994.
Kite was born in McKinney, Texas. He began playing golf at age 6 and won...
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| Tom Watson |
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Thomas Sturges "Tom" Watson (born September 4, 1949) is an American PGA Tour golfer and now mostly Champions Tour golfer.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Watson was one of the leading players in the world, winning eight major championships and heading the...
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| Phil Mickelson |
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Philip Alfred Mickelson (born June 16, 1970) is an American professional golfer. He has won three major championships and a total of 37 events on the PGA Tour. He has reached a career high world ranking of 2nd in multiple years. He is nicknamed ...
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| Augusta National Golf Club |
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Augusta National Golf Club, located in the American city of Augusta, Georgia, is one of the most storied and exclusive golf clubs in the world. Founded by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts and designed by Alister MacKenzie on the site of a former...
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| Laurance Rockefeller |
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Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (May 26, 1910 – July 11, 2004) was a venture capitalist, financier, philanthropist, a major conservationist and a prominent third-generation member of the Rockefeller family. He was the fourth child of John D....
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| Oak Hill Country Club |
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Oak Hill Country Club, located in Pittsford, New York, a suburb of Rochester, has a rich history of golf. It started out in 1901 as only 9 holes on 85 acres (0.3 km²) on the banks of the Genesee River in Rochester. The clubhouse was no more than a...
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| Muirfield Village |
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Muirfield Village is an upscale golf-oriented community located in the Columbus suburb of Dublin, Ohio. Founded by Jack Nicklaus, and named after Muirfield, the village contains a golf course that is home to the Memorial Tournament each year. A...
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| Wild Dunes |
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Wild Dunes is an oceanfront resort on Isle of Palms, South Carolina, USA. It is 1,600 acres (6 km) on the north end of the island and has controlled-access gates.
Wild Dunes has two famous golf courses on it: the Wild Dunes Links Course, and the...
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| Nick Faldo |
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Sir Nicholas Alexander Faldo, MBE (born 18 July 1957) is an English professional golfer on the European Tour, and is one of Europe's most successful players ever. Over his career, he has won six majors: three Open Championships and three U.S....
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| Fuzzy Zoeller |
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Frank Urban Zoeller, Jr. |
Frank Urban "Fuzzy" Zoeller, Jr. (pronounced /ˈzɛlər/) (born November 11, 1951) is an American professional golfer. He is one of three golfers to have won The Masters in his first appearance in the event. He also won the 1984 U.S. Open, which earned...
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| Royal Troon Golf Club |
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Royal Troon Golf Club is a links golf course located in Troon, South Ayrshire, Scotland. The club was founded in 1878, and its Old Course is now one of the host courses for The Open Championship, one of the major championships on the PGA Tour and...
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| Torrey Pines Golf Course |
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Torrey Pines Golf Course is a municipal public golf course owned by the city of San Diego, California. It sits on the coastal cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the community of La Jolla south of Torrey Pines State Reserve. It has two famous...
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| Whistling Straits |
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Whistling Straits is one of two golfing destinations associated with The American Club, a luxury resort located in nearby Kohler, Wisconsin, and owned by a subsidiary of the Kohler Company. The other course is Blackwolf Run. The Whistling Straits...
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| Nick Price |
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Nicholas Raymond Leige Price (born 28 January 1957) is a professional golfer from Zimbabwe and an inductee in the World Golf Hall of Fame. In the mid-1990s, Price reached number one in the Official World Golf Rankings.
Price is a citizen of Zimbabwe...
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| Royal St. George's Golf Club |
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The Royal St George's Golf Club is one of the premier golf clubs in the United Kingdom, and one of the courses on The Open Championship rotation. It has hosted 13 Open championships since 1894, when it became the first club outside Scotland to host...
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| Sankaty Head Golf Club |
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Sankaty Head Golf Club is the one of the Eastern-most golf courses in the United States, perched on the edge of Nantucket Island in Siasconset, Massachusetts. It is one of the few examples of world-class links-style golf outside of the UK (see...
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| Gleneagles Hotel |
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The Gleneagles Hotel is a luxury hotel near Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The hotel has 232 bedrooms, including 26 suites.
The hotel was built by the former Caledonian Railway Company and opened in 1924, originally with its own railway...
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| Robert Trent Jones | Robert Trent Jones, Sr. |
Robert Trent Jones, Sr. (June 20, 1906 – June 14, 2000) was a golf course architect who designed (or re-designed) about 500 golf courses in at least 40 US states and 35 other countries all around the world. It has been jokingly said that, "The sun...
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Sugarloaf |
Sugarloaf (formerly Sugarloaf/USA), is a ski area and resort is located on Sugarloaf Mountain in Carrabassett Valley, northern Maine. It is the largest ski resort in the State of Maine, in terms of number of trails (138), skiable acreage (1,400),...
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| Davis Love III |
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Davis Milton Love III (born April 13, 1964) is an American professional golfer.
Love was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina before turning professional in 1985. He quickly established himself on the PGA...
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| Valhalla Golf Club |
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Valhalla Golf Club, located in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, is a private golf club designed by professional golfer Jack Nicklaus. The course, which sits on a 486-acre (2.0 km) property on Shelbyville Road in the eastern portion of Louisville just...
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| Turning Stone Casino & Resort |
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Turning Stone Casino and Resort is a resort owned and operated by the Oneida Indian Nation in Verona, New York. The facility opened July 16, 1993 and offers golf amenities (on- and off-site golf courses, one of PGA quality, and an indoor golf dome),...
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| Johnny Miller |
John Laurence Miller (born April 29, 1947) is a former professional golfer on the PGA Tour. He was one of the top players in the world during the mid-1970s, ranked second in the world on Mark McCormack's world golf rankings in both 1974 and 1975...
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| Mark O'Meara |
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Mark Francis O'Meara (born January 13, 1957) is an American professional golfer who was a prolific tournament winner on the PGA Tour and around the world from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. He spent nearly 200 weeks in the top-10 of the Official...
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| Tom Morris, Sr. |
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Old Tom Morris |
Thomas Mitchell Morris, Sr. (16 June 1821 – 24 May 1908), otherwise known as Old Tom Morris, has sometimes been called a pioneer of professional golf. He was born in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, the "home of golf" and location of the St Andrews Links...
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| Wentworth Club |
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Wentworth Club is a privately owned golf club and health resort in Virginia Water, Surrey on the south western fringes of London, not far from Windsor Castle. The club was founded in 1926.
The 19th century house the "Wentworths" (now the club house...
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| James Braid |
James Braid (6 February 1870 – 27 November 1950) was a Scottish professional golfer and a member of the Great Triumvirate of the sport alongside Harry Vardon and John Henry Taylor. He won The Open Championship five times. He also was a renowned golf...
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| Tom Lehman |
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Thomas Edward Lehman (born March 7, 1959) is an American professional golfer.
Lehman was born in Austin, Minnesota but Alexandria, Minnesota is credited as his official Minnesota hometown. He attended the University of Minnesota, graduating with a...
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| Tony Jacklin |
Anthony "Tony" Jacklin CBE (born 7 July 1944) is an English golfer, who was the most successful British player of his generation. He was also the most successful European Ryder Cup captain ever. He was born in Scunthorpe, England.
Jacklin won two...
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| The De Vere Belfry |
The Belfry is a prestigious golf resort in Wishaw, Warwickshire, near Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England. The Belfry is owned by Irish billionaire Sean Quinn, who acquired the course in 2005.
The club has three golf courses. "The Brabazon...
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| Valderrama Golf Club |
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The Valderrama Golf Club, or Club de Golf Valderrama, is one of the best known golf clubs in Europe. It is located in the resort of Sotogrande, San Roque in the Andalusia region of Southern Spain, a few miles from Gibraltar, and has a single 18 hole...
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| Ben Crenshaw |
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Ben Daniel Crenshaw (born January 11, 1952) is an American professional golfer.
Crenshaw was born in Austin, Texas. He attended and played golf at Austin High School and the University of Texas before turning professional in 1973.
In 1973, Crenshaw...
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| Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club |
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Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England is one of the courses in the Open Championship rotation. The Women's British Open has also been played on the course: once prior to becoming a major tournament and twice since...
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| Royal Birkdale Golf Club |
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Royal Birkdale Golf Club in the town of Southport, England, is one of the clubs in the Open Championship rotation. The club has hosted the championship nine times since 1954, most recently in July 2008. Previous winners of the Open at Royal Birkdale...
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| Muirfield |
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Muirfield Golf Course |
Muirfield is a privately owned links which is the home of The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. Located in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland, overlooking the Firth of Forth, Muirfield is one of the golf courses used in rotation for The Open...
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| Turnberry |
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Turnberry is a golf resort on the coast of the outer Firth of Clyde in southwestern Scotland. Located in South Ayrshire on the rugged coast, it comprises three links golf courses, a golf academy, a five-star hotel built in 1906, as well as lodge and...
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| Royal Liverpool Golf Club |
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The Royal Liverpool Golf Club is a leading golf club in Merseyside in North West England. It was founded in 1869 and received the "Royal" designation in 1871 due to the patronage of the Duke of Connaught of the day, who was one of Queen Victoria's...
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| Prestwick Golf Club |
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Prestwick Golf Club is located in the town of Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland. It is approximately 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Scotland's largest city, Glasgow. Prestwick is a classic links golf course, being built on the rolling sandy land...
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| Royal Portrush Golf Club |
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Royal Portrush Golf Club in County Antrim, Northern Ireland is the only golf club outside of Great Britain which has hosted The Open Championship, the oldest of golf's major championships. It is considered a highly testing course, with a...
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| Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club |
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Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club is in the town of Deal in the County of Kent in Southern England (the course is often known simply as Deal). It was founded in 1892. The name derives from Deal's membership of an ancient group of trading towns granted...
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| Lanny Wadkins |
Jerry Lanston "Lanny" Wadkins, Jr. (born December 5, 1949) is an American professional golfer. He ranked in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings for 86 weeks from their debut in 1986 to 1988.
Wadkins was born in Richmond, Virginia. He...
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