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...that, because darkness threatened a sudden-death playoff match, American captain Jack Nicklaus and International captain South African Gary Player agreed to draw the 2003 Presidents Cup (trophy pictured)?
...that Mission Hills Golf Club, located in Guanlan, Shenzen, People's Republic of China, is listed by Guinness World Records as the world's largest golf resort and comprises twelve eighteen-hole courses, each designed by a different professional golfer, golf instructor, or course architect?
...that English amateur golfer and hoaxer Maurice Flitcroft averred that he was a professional and entered the 1976 The Open Championship but, playing with mail-order clubs, required 121 shots to complete his first round?
...that a player's stepping within one foot of a hole whilst retrieving a ball is disfavored by traditional golf etiquette, principally because footprints situated around the hole may serve to create a doughnut effect that affects the roll of balls on the putting green?
...that French professional golfer Marie-Laure de Lorenzi won twenty-three Ladies European Tour tournaments and finished in 1988 and 1989 as that tour's Order of Merit winner but did not play in an LPGA Tour-sanctioned event over her career?

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