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Churston Ferrers

The village golf club's president is the Welsh former snooker world number one, Ray Reardon.

Daltry Calhoun

The plot involves small town Tennessee and the character Daltry Calhoun who is wrestling for control over his fading golf club and is reunited with his estranged daughter, a 14-year-old musical prodigy.

Denham Golf Club railway station

The station was originally called Denham Golf Club Platform, and it was built to serve the adjacent golf club.

Stephanie Sparks

Though Jones and Stirling were considered great golfers in their day, the big contrast between Sparks and the film's star, Jim Caviezel, who played Bobby Jones, was that Sparks was once a great player with much promise, though it was never completely fulfilled, and Caviezel had never picked up a golf club in his life.


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2005 Presidents Cup

They were played at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia, USA.

2011 CME Group Titleholders

It was played November 17–20, 2011 at the Grand Cypress Golf Club in Orlando, Florida.

Alfred Dunhill Championship

In addition, the event was moved to the Leopard Creek Golf Club, just south of the Kruger National Park in Malalane, Mpumalanga.

Alverstoke

Several of Palmerston's Follies were sited within the parish, including Fort Gilkicker, a 19th-century coastal battery fort, which located at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, where it sits across a wide curved natural headland (promontory) taken up by Gosport & Stokes Bay Golf Club.

Blainville, Quebec

In July 2010, Le Fontainebleau Golf Club hosted the Montreal Championship, a PGA Tour event.

Bob Rosburg

The 1959 PGA Championship was played at the Minneapolis Golf Club in St. Louis Park, Minnesota.

Brazil São Paulo 500 Years Open

The tournament was held at the São Paulo Golf Club in São Paulo.

Charles Coe

When he died, the Rocky Mountain News quoted a Castle Pines golf club member saying, "Charlie Coe was an amateur at everything except life."

Christopher Rawson

In 1999, he wrote Where Stone Walls Meet the Sea, a 600-page centennial history of the Donald Ross-designed Sakonnet Golf Club in Little Compton, Rhode Island and of the summer colony of which it is a part.

Disc golf

In a 2006 episode of the TV show The Office ("The Convict") the character of Andy Bernard talks of having started a Frisbee golf club in his college years and says "I live to frolf!"

Eagle Creek Golf Club

Eagle Creek Golf Club was the first golf course in Florida to use Mini Verde Grass on its greens, and the first course in central Florida to offer PrecedentGolf Cars made by Club Car.

Eddie Bullock

In 1971, Eddie began his Professional career as apprentice golf professional to Hedley Muscroft at Roundhay Golf Club, Leeds.

Eddie Pearce

Pearce was born in Fort Myers, Florida and grew up in Temple Terrace, Florida, where, as an infant, his first golf club was placed in his hands by the legendary Babe Didrikson Zaharias.

Equestrian at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Originally Oaxtepoc was chosen as the site for the cross-country course, but between the footing (very rocky) and the climate (hot and humid), the organizers decided to move the course to the golf club of Avandaro in the Valle de Bravo.

Farm Neck Golf Club

Farm Neck Golf Club is a semi-private golf club located in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard.

Guilford Tramway

The St. George's Golf Club was founded in 1887 near the Kent resort town of Sandwich.

Imperial Open

It was played at the Seve Ballesteros Golf Club in Chiba from 1990 to 1992 and at the Caledonian Golf Club in Ibaraki in 1993.

Jim Jamieson

Other stints in Jamieson's career as a teaching and club pro have included lead instructor at the John Jacobs Golf School, head pro at The Pines Golf Club, head pro at the Pete Dye Golf Club, Director of Golf at Whitewater Golf Club in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and as operator of the Jim Jamieson School of Golf at the Resort at Glade Springs in Daniels, West Virginia.

John Hollowbread

He ran the Manor House Inn at Bursledon from 1966 and later worked as bar manager of the New Forest Golf Club at Bramshaw.

Josiah Collins

He was one of the cofounders of the first golf club in Seattle at Laurelhurst in 1895.

Joyce Wethered

She played most of her golf at (and was a member of) Worplesdon Golf Club in Surrey.

Kay McMahon

In 2002, McMahon and business partner, Eloise Trainor, Founder of the LPGA Futures Tour (now the Symetra Tour), rebranded into eduKaytion Golf, an exclusive golf education company located at the Cranwell Resort, Spa and Golf Club in Lenox, Massachusetts, since January 2012.

Laurie Auchterlonie

In 1902, representing the Chicago Golf Club, he won the eighth U.S. Open at Garden City Golf Club in Garden City, New York.

Lester George

Kinloch Golf Club in Manakin-Sabot, Virginia was awarded the honor of Best New Private Golf Course of 2001 by Golf Digest Magazine.

Luodian, Shanghai

The new town's Lake Malaren Golf Club hosts the BMW Masters, a golf tournament which in 2012 became an event on the PGA European Tour.

Mahanayak Uttam Kumar metro station

The Tollygunge Golf Club is on the west side of the station, the Royal Calcutta Golf Club lies less than a kilometre to the east and ITC Sangeet Research Academy is a short distance south along Deshapran Sashmal Road at Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Road.

Meadow Brook Club

Meadow Brook Golf Club, a private golf club in Jericho, Long Island, New York

Metropolitan Golf Club

The Metropolitan Golf Club, tucked quietly in Melbourne's south eastern suburbs is one of the renowned sandbelt courses and widely recognised as one of the finest championship courses in Australia.

Misiones Open

First held in 1999, it has always been held at the Tacurú Golf Club, in Posadas, Misiones Province.

Othman Almulla

The child of a Saudi Aramco employee, Almulla was raised inside the Aramco residential camp at Dhahran and learned to play golf at Aramco's Rolling Hills Golf Club.

Ottery, Cape Town

The Youngsfield Military Base, Royal Cape Golf Club and Cape Town's 'official' China Town are located in the suburb.

Parco di Monza Challenge

The Parco di Monza Challenge was a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour that was played in 2006 at Golf Club Milano in Monza near Milan, Italy.

Pittsburgh Senior Classic

It was played in the greater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area; first in Midway, Pennsylvania at the Quicksilver Golf Club (1993-1997) and then in Sewickley Heights, Pennsylvania at the Sewickley Heights Golf Club.

Privacy concerns with social networking services

In 2002, a Canadian teenager became known as the Star Wars Kid after a video of him using a golf club as a light sabre was posted on the internet without his consent.

Rahway Valley Railroad

Louis Keller, a founder of Baltusrol Golf Club, was dissatisfied with the transportation to his golf club over the rough dirt roads that existed in Union County, New Jersey in the early 1900s.

Riversdale Cup

The event has been played since 1896 and is organized by and played at the Riversdale Golf Club in Mount Waverley, Victoria.

Ronnie Shade

Shade was born in Edinburgh and grew up playing golf at Dudddingston Golf Club in that city.

Royal Malta Golf Club

The Royal Malta Golf Club was founded in 1888 by Lieutenant-General Sir Henry D’Oyley Torrens KCB KCMG.

Seniors International Golf Championship

It was played in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina at the Shipyard Golf Club (1982-1984), at the Planters Row Golf Club (1985), and at the Harbour Town GL (1986-1987).

Somerset County, New Jersey

Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster is an exclusive golf club owned by Donald Trump.

Sybase Match Play Championship

The Sybase Match Play Championship was a women's professional golf tournament for three seasons on the LPGA Tour, held at Hamilton Farm Golf Club in Gladstone, New Jersey.

Telenet Trophy

It was first played in 2006, with the host course being alternated between Limburg Golf & Country Club in Houthalen-Helchteren, Royal Waterloo in Lasne, Rinkven Golf Club in Anvers, and Ravenstein Royal GC in Tervuren.

The Members Club at Four Streams

The Members Club at Four Streams is a private golf club located in Beallsville, Maryland.

Tillicum, Lakewood

Tillicum is a neighborhood located in Lakewood, Pierce County, Washington bordered by the Tacoma Country and Golf Club to the north, Camp Murray to the south, Fort Lewis to the East, and American Lake to the west.

Toshin Golf Tournament

It was played at the Toshin Lake Wood Golf Club in Tsu, Mie in 2010 and 2011.

Walter Travis

The Schenectady Putter was invented by Arthur F. Knight, a General Electric engineer, who created a model reflecting his ideas in the summer of 1902 at his home course, Mohawk Golf Club in Schenectady, NY.

William F. Brown

He had the privilege to caddy for Sammy Snead and other golf legends during his years at the golf club.

Woodbrook House

In 1946, over fifty acres was sold to the local Carrick on Shannon Golf Club while the Land Commission subsequently divided the remainder.

Woodbury Country Club

The Woodbury Country Club (WCC) was a private golf club in Woodbury, New Jersey, United States.