The Masters golf tournament proved last Monday what it can do to the strongest men and the staunchest nerves.

`` Just when you think you have it licked, this golf course can get up and bite you '', Player had said one afternoon midway through the tournament.

The lean and leathery Oklahoma amateur, who has been playing topnotch tournament golf for many years, refused to let the Masters jitters overtake him and closed the tournament with his second straight 69.

Even so, it was still not clear to many in the enormous horde of spectators -- unquestionably the largest golf crowd ever -- that this tournament was to be, essentially, a match between Palmer and Player.

The British Open is the Open Championship men's golf tournament.

Since 1995, Costas has also hosted NBC's coverage of the U. S. Open golf tournament.

** Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, a PGA golf tournament at the club sometimes referred to as " The Colonial "

George introduced the game to many adults by planning a disc golf tournament as part of a recreation project.

The concept of picking players and running a contest based on their year-to-date stats has been around since shortly after World War II, Wilfred Winkenbach devised fantasy golf in the latter part of the 1950s, in which each player selected a team of professional golfers and the person with the lowest combined total of strokes at the end of the tournament would win.

* The home of the Dutch open golf tournament KLM Open.

Following his victory in The Masters golf tournament in 1988, Scottish golfer Sandy Lyle chose to serve haggis at the annual Champions Dinner before the 1989 Masters.

Examples would include offering prizes to contestants who can make a half-court shot at a basketball game, or a hole-in-one at a golf tournament.

According to David Wallechinsky's Complete Book of the Olympics, while playing in a celebrity golf tournament in Cuba in 1958, Weissmuller's golf cart was suddenly captured by rebel soldiers.

* Kirin Open, a Japanese golf tournament from 1974 to 2001

As a result of the Mitchell Report, Clemens has been asked to end his involvement with the Giff Nielsen Day of Golf for Kids charity golf tournament in Houston that he has hosted for four years.

Shriners hold the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, a PGA Golf Tour golf tournament held in Las Vegas, NV.

* SAS Championship, a golf tournament on the Champions Tour.

* Western Open, a professional golf tournament

* Roma Masters, a golf tournament in Italy

In Houston, Texas, the Cypresswood Golf Club hosts an annual golf tournament in April.

Meanwhile, the Gower Golf Club at Three Crosses hosts the West Wales Open, a two-day tournament on Wales ' professional golf tour, the Dragon Tour.

* Transitions Championship, a men's professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour

A Calcutta auction is an open auction held in conjunction with a golf tournament, horse race or similar contest with multiple entrants.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

It is almost axiomatic that golfers who dominate the game of golf for any period of time attack their shots with a vehemence bordering on violence.

Hazards to life and limb on the golf course, while existent, are actuarially insignificant.

A player can send the jack anywhere on the green in this game and the green itself is more akin to a golf green, with lots of undulation.

Some early sources refer to pall mall being played over a large distance ( as in golf ), however an image in Strutt's 1801 book clearly shows a croquet-like ground billiards game ( balls on ground, hoop, bats and peg ) being played over a, garden-sized distance.

Once on the green the caddie will read greens ( if asked per proper golf etiquette ), clean golf balls ( if asked ), fix ball marks, and attend the flag if asked.

Caddies are most frequently employed at clubs on weekends, when the majority of country club golf takes place.

He had a small, basic golf facility installed at Camp David, and became close friends with the Augusta National Chairman Clifford Roberts, inviting Roberts to stay at the White House on several occasions ; Roberts, an investment broker, also handled the Eisenhower family's investments.

While playing golf one afternoon he realized that it might be fun for the kids on his playground if they played " golf " with frisbees.

Headrick coined and trademarked the term " Disc Golf " when formalizing the sport and patented the Disc Pole Hole, the first disc golf target to incorporate chains and a basket on a pole.

Headrick abandoned his trademark on the term " Disc Golf ", and turned over control and administration of the PDGA to the growing body of disc golf players in order to focus on his passion for building and inventing equipment for the sport.

Because the physics of a disc require " snap " or " flick ", which means putting spin on the disc, new players generally find that throwing a distance driver accurately can be somewhat difficult and will require experience with disc golf disc response.

A red disc sailing towards a " Tonal Pole " style target at the disc golf course on Pender Island

A golf course named for Sodom and Gomorrah was built by the British at Kalia on the northern shore.

He is Mike's major antagonist on the team, often baiting him about sensitive topics, such as the supposedly anti-Semitic golf club of which Mike is a member ( A Hole in the Heart ), or whenever Mike's public appearances end in disaster.

The chicken would sit on items, such as a ringside bell ; a man's bald head ; a billiard ball ; a football ; a golf ball, and even a bomb, with various disastrous results.

He enjoyed playing golf and going on picnics with his family.

Zahir Shah lived in exile in Italy for twenty-nine years in a modest four-bedroom villa in the affluent community of Olgiata on Via Cassia, north of the city of Rome where he spent his time playing golf and chess, as well as tending to his garden.

Bletch is later shown on a golf course consummating a deal with Cedric.