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The Highest Golf Courses in Great Britain
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The Open Championship – Playoffs
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Hole in One records, feats and incidents
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PGA Tour rookies who win their first event
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The Walker Cup
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Lydia Ko’s record as an amateur in professional events
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Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club
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The Walker Cup – player and match records and statistics (up to and including 2007) Click here for the full match scores 1922 – 2009
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Left-handers – how many have won major championships?
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Royal St George’s Golf Club, Sandwich
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The World Cup
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The longest putt ever holed
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The Ryder Cup
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The World Cup – Match history & records
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The lowest golf course in the world
Furnace Creek Golf Course, in California’s Death Valley, lies 214 feet below sea level, 6,236 yards off the back tees and a par 70.
The Ryder Cup – Match history & records 1927 – 2012
The origins of the Ryder Cup date back to two unofficial matches in 1921 and 1926, when a group of American professionals, including Walter Hagen,…
How the Official World Golf Ranking works (from January 1st, 2007)
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The Career of Seve Ballesteros
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