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[edit] July 22, 2007 to August 31, 2007; September 3, 2007 to September 30, 2007
Although it is best known for its number two course, designed in 1907 by Scottish architect Donald Ross, which has hosted three men's major championships, two THE TOUR Championship events, and an iteration of the Ryder Cup Matches, the Pinehurst Resort, situated in Pinehurst, North Carolina, comprises eight full golf courses, and through 2004 was listed by Guinness World Records as the world's largest golf resort. Its first eighteen-hole course, completed in 1898 on land procured by Boston soda fountain magnate James Walker Tufts, featured square-shaped putting greens composed of oiled sand (pictured) and was home for a time to the North and South Open, during the former half of the twentieth century CE one of the most prestigious golf tournaments in the United States, and to the United North and South Amateur Championship, organized by the United States Golf Association, which was won in 1904 (pictured) by American Walter Travis, who became the first The Amateur Championship winner to capture the North and South title.
[edit] April 22, 2007 to April 30, 2007; June 2, 2007 to June 30, 2007
A golf cart, known also as a golf car, is a small four-wheeled electric- or gas-powered vehicle designed originally to carry two golfers and their clubs, bags, and attendant accessories around a golf course; as a replacement for walking, riding in a golf cart permits players to traverse a golf course more quickly and with less physical exertion. Carts designed principally for golf-related uses are most often four feet wide, eight feet long, and six feet high and weigh between 900 and 1000 pounds. The use of carts is proscribed on most major men's and women's professional golf tours, although the Champions Tour allows carts in many events, and is restricted to non-disruptive purposes under the principles of golf etiquette. American Casey Martin, afflicted in his right leg with Klippel Trenaunay syndrome, a degenerative birth defect, sued the PGA Tour to win the right to use a cart on course; his case eventually reached the United States Supreme Court, where he prevailed. In many small communities, golf carts serve as neighborhood electric vehicles and are specially designed for non-golf usage; prominent manufacturers of the latter include Ingersoll Rand's Club Car division and Lamborghini (fabrication pictured).
[edit] December 17, 2006 to April 22, 2007
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is the one of the oldest golf clubs in the world, the oldest being the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers at Muirfield. It is based in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, regarded as the worldwide "Home of Golf".[1] Formerly it was also one of the governing authorities of the game, but in 2004 this role was handed over to a newly formed group of companies collectively known as The R&A.
The organisation was founded in 1754 as the Society of St Andrews Golfers, a local golf club playing at St Andrews Links but quickly grew in importance. In 1834 King William IV became its patron and the club became known under its present name. In 1897 the Society codified the rules of golf, and was gradually over the next 30 years invited to take control of the running of golf tournaments at other courses.
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews itself is now simply a golf club. It has 2,400 members from all over the world. Although the clubhouse is situated just before the first tee of the Old Course of the St Andrews Links, the R&A members enjoy the privilege of using a significant part of the tee times there but do not own the course, which is run by the St Andrews Links Trust, a charitable organisation that owns and runs all the St Andrews Links golf courses at St Andrews.
[edit] July 27 to December 17, 2006
The Old Course at St Andrews, one of the six courses comprised by St Andrews Links in Fife, the oldest golf club in Scotland, dating at least to the 15th century CE, and, through the assent of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, the ruling body for the sport in all nations save the United States and Mexico, 27 times the host of The Open Championship and 17 times the host of The Amateur Championship, is a links-style course, known for giving difficulty to professionals seeking to score better than par, in view of its large putting greens, often windy conditions, long and thick rough, and deep sand traps, known as pot bunkers.
A bunker peripheral to the fairway and directly before much of the putting green of the course's par-four seventeenth hole, referred to as the road hole bunker, is considered to be especially challenging, having, notably, consumed three strokes by Italian Costantino Rocca at the 1995 The Open Championship, a tournament Rocca would ultimately lose the Claret Jug in a playoff to American John Daly, and four strokes by American David Duval during the tournament's 2000 iteration, costing Duval equal second with Dane Thomas Bjørn and South African Ernie Els behind American Tiger Woods, and, concomitantly, nearly $300,000USD.
In 2002, the bunker was moved back from the putting surface and was made more shallow, but the British newspaper The Guardian, inter al., raised concerns, and after much public outcry and a month-long inspection by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, the bunker was moved closer to the putting green and returned to within a few inches of its previous depth, with additional alterations made after that year's Dunhill Links Championship such that the depth and position of the bunker were returned to their positions of approximately twenty-five years thither (with accounting made for the effects of weather), such that a six-foot (1.83-metre) golfer will, if at the edge of the bunker most proximate to the putting green, be eclipsed by the rim of the bunker.
[edit] July 1 to July 26, 2006
The 17th hole of the Stadium course of the TPC at Sawgrass course located in Ponte Verda Beach, Florida, United States, often referred to as simply the island green is a par-three, 132-yard hole that, despite its relatively short distance, is known, when played during THE PLAYERS Championship, contested annually since 1977 at the Sawgrass course, as one of the most difficult on the PGA Tour, principally because the 78-foot putting green is surrounded by water and, in the absence of any playable fairway, must be hit directly with the tee shot, notwithstanding the winds that often swirl around the hole in view of its canyon location. It is estimated that professional and amateur players combine to lose more than 100,000 golf balls annually on the Pete and Alice Dye-designed hole, and even professional players struggle to select an appropriate club with which to play the hole. In part because of the caprice of the 17th hole, THE PLAYERS Championship has seen just two two-time winners–American Fred Couples (1984 and 1996) and Australian Steve Elkington (1991 and 1997)–during its 25-year TPC history. The TPC course has also become well-known for its having been the first of the 27 extant Tournament Players Club golf courses and for its housing the headquarters of the PGA Tour.
[edit] June 3 to July 1, 2006
The Presidents Cup, reflecting the Seal of the President of the United States from the floor of the Oval Office, is awarded to the team winning the eponymous series of international professional matches. The Cup, ostensibly named for American President Bill Clinton, during the term of whom the competition was introduced, pits a team of players representing the United States of America against one representing the world, comprising players from nations not eligible to participate in the Ryder Cup, namely those from non-European countries; each team is composed of 12 golfers and one non-playing captain. Begun in 1994, the Cup consists of 34 matches: 12 played on a Friday, six alternate shot or foursome matches in the morning and six better ball or four ball matches in the afternoon; 10 played on a Saturday, five alternate shot and then five better ball matches (two players from each team sit out play in either Saturday session, although no player may sit out both sessions)' and 12 played on a Sunday, all singles matches. The next iteration will be played at the Royal Montréal Golf Club in Île-Bizard, Québec, Canada; the United States having, under captain Jack Nicklaus won by three points in 2005, will be defending champion.
