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Of golf's broadcast television partners in the U. S., NBC is the only network to provide four days of major tournament coverage ( CBS, which airs the Masters and the PGA Championship, only provides weekend coverage of its tournaments ; since 2010, the Open Championship has not been aired live on an over-the-air network, with all four rounds airing on ESPN and only edited highlights screened by ABC ).
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Nicknamed " The King ," he is one of golf's most popular stars and its most important trailblazer, because he was the first superstar of the sport's television age, which began in the 1950s.
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Tiger Woods has come closest to meeting the modern definition of golf's Grand Slam by holding all four modern major championships simultaneously — the U. S. Open, The Open Championship and the PGA Championship in 2000 and the 2001 Masters — although not in the same calendar year.
Janzen won golf's U. S. Open in 1993 & 1998 ; on the baseball side are Tim Wakefield ( Florida Tech ) and Bob Tewksbury ( St. Leo ).
Until that time, many U. S. players also considered the Western Open as one of golf's " majors ", and the British PGA Matchplay Championship was as important to British and Commonwealth professionals as the PGA Championship was to Americans.
In his first year of eligibility for senior golf, he won the 2004 U. S. Senior Open, one of senior golf's major championships.
This followed an earlier report stating that the event would pit the U. S. against a team of European swimmers, like golf's Ryder Cup.
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Palmer, golf's leading money-winner in 1960, and Snead will be saluted as the winning team in the Canada Cup matches last June in Dublin.
As the world's top sportsman -- pro or amateur -- Sports Illustrated tapped golf's confident Arnold Palmer ( Time cover, May 2 ), who staged two cliffhanging rallies to win both the Masters and U.S. Open crowns, went on to win a record $80,738 for the year.
In 2012, golf's The Big Three reunited as South African golfer Gary Player joined for the ceremonial tee shots as honorary starters for the 76th playing of the Masters Tournament.
Each year in late May or early June, the city hosts the Memorial Tournament, a stop on golf's PGA Tour.
Though he missed the cut, he said he was happy to give his ( now former ) wife and tennis legend Chris Evert an opportunity to experience " golf's Wimbledon " firsthand.
* PGA Museum of Golf ( Port St. Lucie, Florida ) — Museum traces the story of The PGA of America, holds golf's four major Championship trophies, the oldest-known written mention of golf for the Articles of Parliament in the 15th Century ; Walter Hagen's birth certificate ; Donald Ross ' 1900s-era workbench, the PGA Golf Professional Hall of Fame, and is home to the Probst Library, one of the foremost collections of golf periodicals in the world.
The Grand Slam in golf is winning all the golf's major championships in the same calendar year.
In the modern era, The Grand Slam is generally considered to be winning all four of golf's major championships in the same calendar year.
Only five golfers have won all four of golf's modern Majors at any time during their career, an achievement which is often referred to as a Career Grand Slam: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods.
Between 1971 and 1980, he would win a further nine major championships, overtake Bobby Jones ' record of 13 majors, and become the first player to complete double and triple career slams of golf's four professional major championships.
The Western Open was like any other regular PGA Tour stop -- although it was once considered to be one of golf's majors.
Some claim this classification is erroneous because Cooper won the 1934 Western Open, which many considered one of golf's major championships at that time.
This is in part because the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, founded in 1754, exercises legislative authority over the game worldwide ( except in the United States and Mexico ), and also because the famous links ( acquired by the town in 1894 ) is the most frequent venue for The Open Championship, the oldest of golf's four major championships.
He achieved a level of popularity similar to that formerly held by boxer John L. Sullivan and harness racehorse Dan Patch, and enjoyed later by such sports heroes of the Golden Age of Sports as boxing's Jack Dempsey, baseball's Babe Ruth, tennis's Bill Tilden and golf's Bobby Jones.
Resisting golf tourism and golf's expansion has become an objective of some land-reform movements, especially in the Philippines and Indonesia.
The Masters evolved into one of golf's four major championships.
Other sports organizations considered to be minor leagues are golf's Web. com Tour and Symetra Tour, respectively affiliated with the PGA Tour and LPGA ; NASCAR's Nationwide Series, Camping World Truck Series and Whelen All-American Series ; and various other affiliated satellite tours of other individual sports, including the Challengers Tour of Professional Tennis.
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Before World War II it was regarded as one of golf's major championships, but given the modern dominance of the sport by professional golfers, this is no longer the case.
The Senior Players Championship is one of the five major championships on golf's Champions Tour.
Shaun Carl Micheel ( born January 5, 1969 ) is an American golfer who is best known for his surprise victory in 2003 in one of golf's major championships, the PGA Championship.
Prestwick is famous as the initial originator and sponsor of The Open Golf Championship, the oldest of golf's four major championships.
The Hyundai Tournament of Champions is, through 2013, the opening event of golf's PGA Tour season.
He is one of golf's most colorful personalities, which makes him one of the more popular players with fans.
The Omega European Masters is the Swiss stop on professional men's golf's European Tour, and in 2009 it became the first event in Europe to be co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour.
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He won 21 times on the European Tour ; only fellow Scot Colin Montgomerie has accumulated more European Tour titles without winning one of golf's four major championships.
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* Masters Tournament, one of golf's four major championships
Two weeks later he won the PGA Championship at Hazeltine National, one of golf's four major tournaments.
Leonard's first twelve wins on the PGA Tour included one of golf's four majors – the 1997 Open Championship ; and the 1998 Players Championship.
His most notable achievement was in 1989, when he won The Open Championship ( the " British Open "), one of golf's four major championships, by beating Wayne Grady and Greg Norman in a four-hole playoff.
His most significant win came at the PGA Championship, one of golf's four major championships, in 1947.
Through 2006, it was held on the same weekend in August as the PGA Championship, one of professional golf's four majors, which automatically made it a secondary event.
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Scott has won 18 tournaments around the world, on a number of golf's major tours.
:; Grand slam: Winning all the golf's major championships in the same calendar year.
In 1951, Royal Portrush hosted The Open Championship, the oldest of golf's major championships.
* Grand Slam ( golf ), the accomplishment of winning all of golf's major championships in the same calendar year
Already that year Nicklaus had won The Masters, making him the first golfer since Arnold Palmer in 1960 to win golf's first two major titles of the season.
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