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- ...that Vincent Tshabalala, having, in view of his colour classification—Coloured—long been denied entry to the Southern African Tour but having subsequently joined the European Seniors Tour, in the top twenty of the Order of Merit standings of which he finished four times, is the only player ever to have twice won the professional better ball event contested annually at the Nelson Mandela Invitational, a charity tournament endorsed by the eponymous former South African president and hosted by South African Gary Player, having captured the 2004 title with Ernie Els and the 2005 title with Tim Clark?
- ...that, over the 101 seasons during which both the United States Women's and British Ladies Amateur Golf Championships have been contested, only four players have claimed the championship trophy of each—respectively, Robert Cox Cup and Pam Barton Memorial Salver—in the same season—American Kelli Kuehne (1996), Frenchwoman Catherine Lacoste (1969), Englishwoman Barton (1936), and Scotswoman Dorothy Campbell (1909), the player with the most career victories–five–across the two tournaments and also a three-time champion of the North and South Women's Amateur Golf Championship?
- ...that Australian (né American) Aaron Baddeley, a three-time PGA Tour of Australasia tournament champion, won the 1999 Australian Open whilst an amateur, aged just 18 years, defeating by two strokes countrymates Nick O'Hern and Greg Norman, and captured the tournament's 2000 edition as a professional, defeating by ten strokes juniors rival Adam Scott, who would subsequently garner four PGA Tour tournament titles and enter the top ten in the World Golf Rankings prior to Baddeley's, in 2006 at the Verizon Heritage, winning his first PGA Tour tournament?
- ...that, although no woman has won in one season four LPGA Tour tournaments considered as major championships—at present, the Kraft Nabisco Championship, LPGA Championship, United States Women's Open Championship, and Women's British Open—to complete a grand slam, American Babe Zaharias, who accumulated ten major championship titles over her career, more than any other player save countrymates Mickey Wright (thirteen) and Patty Berg (fifteen), won all three majors—then the Western Open, Titleholders Championship, and United States Women's Open—in 1950, and American Sandra Haynie, who won 42 LPGA titles over career, ninth-best of all players, won the two—the LPGA Championship and United States Women's Open—contested in 1974?
- ...that Sweden finished fifteenth in the inaugural Women's World Cup of Golf, a team tournament analogous to the WGC-World Cup contested by male players on the PGA and European Tours as part of the World Golf Championships series, represented by Carin Koch and Sophie Gustafson, sixteen strokes behind Japan, comprising Ai Miyazato and Sakura Yokomine, but in 2006, fielded a squad of Annika Sörenstam, eight times a Rolex Player of the Year Award winner and the world's top-ranked player, and Liselotte Neumann, the 1994 Ladies European Tour Order of Merit winner, who defeated Scotland by three strokes and Wales by seven?
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