Once a player turned pro he or she could not compete in the major ( amateur ) tournaments.

At the age of seven, he began caddying at The Homestead in Hot Springs ; he worked as an assistant pro at The Homestead at 19, and turned professional in 1934.

When the pro Soviet Afghan Communists seized power in Afghanistan in 1978, relations between China and the Afghan communists quickly turned hostile.

He attended Clemson University on a golf scholarship and turned pro in 2008.

Benitez turned pro at 15, a young prodigy who was managed by his father Gregorio Benitez, was a member of one of Puerto Rico's most famous boxing families, his brothers Frankie and Gregory Benitez having also been top contenders in the 1970s.

He turned pro in 1980 at the Oasis Skatepark, Southern California during the Gold Cup series.

Mullen later turned pro as a member of the Bones Brigade sponsored by Powell Peralta.

In 1976, Norman turned pro as a tournament player, and that year earned his first victory at the West Lakes Classic at The Grange in Adelaide, South Australia.

He turned pro while in college, eventually earning an 10-1 record as a pro.

They met first on the senior amateur tour in 1958 and dominated the amateur circuit until 1962, before Laver turned pro.

He turned pro shortly after.

Michelle Wie participated that year as a professional, having turned pro the previous October upon signing multi-million dollar endorsement contracts with Nike, Sony, and other sponsors.

Many professional players emerged from South Miami Amateur, including " RANDY " # 44 at World Jai-Alai, regarded as the first American pelotari, who turned pro in 1968 and enjoyed a lengthy career.

Of the new recruits, Bristow, Owen, and Miller were still in the line-up, and Mulligan added another new man in end Grattan O ' Connell, a Bristol, Connecticut, native who had just finished his senior season at Boston College and turned pro immediately.

Tricky Dick Thornton turned in perhaps the finest individual performance in CFL history and one that was among the best in all of pro football.

Arce turned pro at the age of 16, winning his first four fights.

His first pro win, the Galveston Open in 1923, came before he turned twenty years of age.

Margarito compiled a record of 18 – 3 in his relatively brief amateur career, indicating that he may have turned pro quickly due to financial concerns.

Jean's family turned down an offer of a minor-league pro contract for Jean at age fifteen.

When the pro Soviet Afghan Communists seized power in Afghanistan in 1978, relations between China and the Afghan communists quickly turned hostile.

She left college after her sophomore year and turned pro in 1977.

Two years later, he turned pro with the Leafs ' farm team, the Pittsburgh Hornets of the American Hockey League, and most of his first three seasons were spent with Pittsburgh.

He turned pro later in 1945.

Zimonjić turned pro in 1995 and remained relatively unknown outside his native country until a surprise victory in the Mixed Doubles at the 2004 Australian Open.

Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.

In 1602, George Waymouth, in the same little Discovery that Hudson now commanded, had sailed 300 miles up the strait before his frightened men turned the ship back.

He turned his head to the source of the disturbance and instantly back to the window and his rifle sight, dismissing Hoag for the moment with the same contempt he had shown in their encounter at Hoag's apartment.

Just as thousands that day in Portugal had seen the sun dancing in the sky, he had seen the same thing later in his own garden, and she turned to Agnese for confirmation.

The display of potency from Aaron's rod had already been demonstrated in the presence of Pharaoh's magicians ; when Aaron's rod was thrown down to the ground it had turned into a snake, so Pharaoh's magicians performed the same act with their own rods.

A man with the same name as those given by the FBI turned up alive in Saudi Arabia, saying that he had studied at the University of Denver and his passport was stolen there in 1995.

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

He was cast as a stable boy turned swashbuckler Westley in Rob Reiner's fantasy-comedy The Princess Bride, based on the novel of the same name by William Goldman.

At the same meeting, Grishin was asked to chair the commission responsible for Chernenko's funeral ; Grishin turned down the offer, claiming that Gorbachev was closer to Chernenko than he was.

They were at first only ideological constructs, but the tides of time turned them into reality in that same century.

If it's not found, the key's hash is turned into another number in the same range, and the request is routed to the node whose location is closest to the key.

That same year, while giving an interview to US journalist Richard Stengel, de Klerk was asked whether South Africa had turned out the way he envisioned it back in 1990.

# A certain means of wiring an alternating current electrical generator, and AC electric motors, so that when the generator is made to turn at a given speed, or even turned to a certain angle, each motor connected to it will also turn at that speed, or at the same angle.

Freud pointed out that " as a rule the ego carries out repressions in the service and at the behest of its superego ; but this is a case in which it has turned the same weapon against its harsh taskmaster.

Fickman also worked on the musical Reefer Madness, a parody of the anti-marijuana propaganda film of the same name which was turned into a feature film on Showtime.

Skeptics can give new skeptical cases that wouldn't be subject to the same response ( e. g., one where the person was very recently turned into a brain in a vat, so that their words " brain " and " vat " still pick out real brains and vats, rather than simulated ones ).

Lincoln's sister-in-law, sitting with him in the same presidential box where he would later be slain, turned to him and said, " Mr. Lincoln, he looks as if he meant that for you.

Prior to translating Averroes ' commentaries, Anatoli had occupied himself with the translation of astronomical treatises by the same writer and others ; but at the instance of friends he turned his attention to logic and the speculative works, realizing and recommending theimportance of logic, in particular, in view of the contemporary religious controversies.

The same year, both men attracted the attention of Saudi intelligence, who believed they were involved in arms smuggling, and the following year they were eyed as possible collaborators in the 1998 United States embassy bombings in East Africa after it emerged that Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-Owhali had given the FBI the phone number of Mihdhar's father-in-law ; 967-1-200578, which turned out to be a key communications hub for al-Qaeda militants, and eventually tipped off the Americans about the upcoming Kuala Lumpur al-Qaeda Summit.

Although the Mongols killed Henry and destroyed his forces, their advance into Europe was halted when they turned back to attend to the election of a new Khagan ( Grand Khan ) following the death in the same year of Ögedei Khan.

At the same time, Masoch turned to the folklore and culture of his homeland, Galicia.

When he turned it into a snake, the pharaoh made his soothsayers and magicians create the same effect.

This was not the same style used in the British Isles, where the membrane would be folded so that it turned out an eight leaf quire, with single leaves in the third and sixth positions.

Given printing practices at the time ( which included type-setting from dictation ), no two editions turned out to be identical, and it is relatively rare to find even two copies that are exactly the same.

Irregular sharpshooters ( Sekban ) were also recruited for the same reasons and on demobilization turned to brigandage in the Jelali revolts ( 1595 – 1610 ), which engendered widespread anarchy in Anatolia in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.