The course's routing was changed slightly for the championship, with play starting on the club's 17th hole and concluding at the par-5 16th hole.

Due to the two mountain ranges that must be crossed between Badwater and Whitney, the course's cumulative elevation gain exceeds 19, 000 feet ( 5, 800 m ).

The course's academic committee is headed by Professor Denis Oswald ; a member of the International Olympic Committee Executive Board and Head of the Co-ordination Commission for the 2012 London Olympic Games.

It is intended to be a harmless gathering to let off steam from the long hours of studying for the intense course's final exam, and is completely unsanctioned.

While winning the Open Championship is a crowning achievement for any golfer, a win at St Andrews is considered particularly important due to the course's long tradition.

The course's main function is to serve those members with additional skills and training.

However, Geoffrey Evans has argued that the Oxford course's success is a self-perpetuating feature of the class system.

Wild Dunes is working with the golf course designer Tom Fazio to restore the course's final hole to the Par 5 it used to be.

The obstacle course's flag color depend on which team is playing: if blue, the flags are blue, and if red, the flags aree red.

Although the summit is on the Lewes golf course, a public footpath runs along the southern flank of the hill, from which the golf course can readily be reached by any one of several stiles which are located on the course's southern boundary.

The fourth hole, La Cascada, is the course's signature hole.

The ninth hole at the Yale golf course is the course's signature hole, world famous due to an unusual deep green with an depression separating front and back and a difficult tee shot requiring both distance and precision.

Usually overcast and often coupled with fog, the result is " flat " lighting, compounding the course's difficulty.

The first Open was held in October 1860, with three trips in one day over the course's 12 holes to make for 36 holes ; the field consisted of eight leading professionals.

" Long " Jim Barnes was resident professional of the course at the time ( James Kelly Thomson was the course's first pro ), and every major golfer of the day competed in the event except for Bobby Jones.

Befitting the course's siting next to Shober's Run, there are water features apparent at nearly every hole.

For example, when children with the worst reading scores are selected to participate in a reading course, improvements at the end of the course might be due to regression toward the mean and not the course's effectiveness.

Most often materials are put on course reserve by library staff at the request of the course's instructor.

Tour players complained about the number of dogleg holes at Poppy Hills, and the course's poor drainage during the common winter rainstorms.

This course's pits are at two locations, similar to Death Drop-one after the first loop, the second after the second loop and the 270 degree turn.

In fact, until regrading was performed during the 1970s, the outline of one of the course's sandtraps was still visible near the base of Flood's Hill, a spot that has historically been one of the favorite sleigh riding spots in Essex County.

He wanted to include training in " banking, railroading, merchandising, manufacturing and other similar branches " and expand the course's length to four years from the initial three.

After the 1956 season, the construction of a wider bus road beyond the main course's final turn forced the turn to be shortened.

Oxford PPE graduate Nick Cohen and former tutor Iain McLean consider the course's breadth important to its appeal, especially because British society values generalists over specialists.

From 1968 to 1970 the course's late summer meeting was shown on ITV, and from the early 2000s some races from the course occasionally appeared on Channel 4, but otherwise the course had been covered exclusively by the BBC for 50 years from 1956 ( when it first appeared on television ) to 2006.

In a similar vein, The Burkiss Way was based on fictional correspondence courses by " Professor Emil Burkiss " entitled The Burkiss way to Dynamic Living, and each episode or " lesson " had a number and a title based on one of the course's subjects: " Lesson 1: Peel Bananas the Burkiss Way ", " Lesson 2: Pass Examinations the Burkiss Way ", and so on.

The University of Cambridge believes that their course's generalization, rather than specialization, gives their students an advantage.

The course's tight turns and short straights allowed the non-turbo cars to be more competitive than usual, with Michele Alboreto's Tyrrell and Eddie Cheever's Talbot Ligier fastest among them.

In 1976, the owners of the course had not made a payment on their $ 5 million mortgage in five years, leading to the course's closure.

The event was marred by the death of J. Olivari who was burned to death when his Maserati hit the a wall in one of the course's 11, 000 curves.

The legendary golf writer Bernard Darwin's quote: " Hoylake, blown upon by mighty winds, breeder of mighty champions " highlights one of the course's key defences.

An appendix section in the book contains a chronology of events starting at 1833, a 70-page index, a list of the 100 or so main stories, and a plan of the elevation of the block as the 10x10 grid.

The elevation of Charles of Spain to Holy Roman Emperor, a position that Francis had desired, led to a collapse of relations between France and the Habsburgs and provided Francis I of France with a pretext for starting a general war.

The upper Cuyahoga River, starting at over from its mouth, drops in elevation fairly steeply, creating falls and rapids in some places ; the lower Cuyahoga River only drops several feet along the last several miles of the lower river to at the mouth on Lake Erie, resulting in relatively slow moving waters that can take a while to drain compared to the upper Cuyahoga River.

The longest route is the Northeastern and it takes two whole days to reach the summit starting from downhill village of Nāndal and a night stay at Takht-e Fereydoun ( elevation 4300 m-about 13, 000 ft ), a two-story shelter.

After the summit, the highway turns briefly southerly and then southwesterly starting its slow descent as it continues along Cienaga Seca Creek until it is just west of the forest road to Heart Bar Campground and to one of the many trails to San Gorgonio Mountain, the highest land elevation in southern California.

It is usual practice to perform either a complete loop back to the starting point or else close the traverse on a second point whose elevation is already known.

This was the highest starting elevation for a BASE jump on record.

The Guinness World Record for a BASE jump starting elevation is held by Singleman himself and partner Heather Swan for a jump from 6604 meters ( 21, 667 ft ) from Meru Peak in northern India on 23 May 2006.

The hike starting from la Plaine des Cafres is about 8 hours up and 5 hours down with a change in elevation of 1700m ( 5, 577 ft ).

The easiest route to the summit of Anamudi is a technically easy hike on grass slopes, starting from a rolling hill plateau with a base elevation of about.

It is a course starting at below sea level in the Badwater Basin, in California's Death Valley, and ending at an elevation of 8360 feet ( 2548 m ) at Whitney Portal, the trailhead to Mount Whitney.

* The starting gate is at an elevation of above sea level ; the Streif vertically descends to the finish at.

The round trip is approximately and involves of elevation gain when starting from the Tuolumne Wilderness Office.

* The Old Emigrant Road was a long loop around the Silver Lake basin, starting from Caples Lake and reaching an elevation of < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 9, 640 feet ( 2, 938 m )</ span > at one place.