Most provincial level competitions consist of events for 6 different age groups ( Groups A, B, C, D, E, and Open ) for both genders on each of the three board levels.

The age group Open is so called because divers of any age, including those over 18, may compete in these events, so long as their dives meet a minimum standard of difficulty.

Once again, qualification is based on achieving minimum scores at earlier competitions ( in this case, within the 12 months preceding the national championships, and in an Open age group event ), or high placements in previous national championships or international competitions.

It is no longer the case that divers may use results from age group events to qualify for senior nationals, or results from Open events to qualify for age group nationals.

In 1973, Snead became the oldest player to make a cut in a U. S. Open at age 61.

In 1979, he was the youngest PGA Tour golfer to shoot his age ( 67 ) in the second round of the 1979 Quad Cities Open.

* Oldest player to win a PGA Tour event: age 52 years, 10 months, 8 days at the 1965 Greater Greensboro Open

* First PGA Tour player to shoot his age: 67 in the second round of the 1979 Quad Cities Open

* Michael Chang, former French Open singles champion at age 17

Open Door produces one large musical each year which features a large number of performers ranging in age from 9 to adult including people with special needs.

* Ed Furgol, winner of 1954 US Open at Baltusrol, champion golfer who overcame an unbending left arm from a broken elbow at age 12

Junior curling teams from Dumfries, consisting of curlers under the age of 21, regularly compete in the Dutch Junior Open based in Zoetemeer, Holland.

*# US Open-Tracy Austin, youngest US Open Champion at the age of 16 years, 8 months and 28 days defeating 4-time defending champion Chris Evert 6-4, 6-3 in the final after defeating 2nd seeded Martina Navratilova in the semifinal making Evert lose for the first time in 32 matches.

Additionally, students are admitted to the Hellenic Open University upon the completion of the 22 year of age by drawing lots.

He would continue to compete against much younger players and had one of the most remarkable comebacks for any athlete when he reached the semifinals of the 1991 US Open at the age of 39.

The defining moment of Connors ' later career came when he made an improbable run to the 1991 US Open semifinals at the age of 39.

At age 34, Navratilova defeated Graf the last time they played in a Grand Slam event in the semifinals of the 1991 US Open 7 – 6 ( 2 ), 6 – 7 ( 6 ), 6 – 4.

There are championships for every age group, ranging from the Under 10s to the Open ( Under 18s ).

Evert beat Navratilova en route to her last grand slam final in the Australian Open in 1988, at the age of 33.

Sarazen won his first major championships – the 1922 U. S. Open and PGA Championship – at age 20.

At the age of 71, Sarazen made a hole-in-one at the 1973 British Open Championship.

Following this game, he had a meteoric rise, winning the 1957 U. S. Open on tiebreaks, winning the 1957 – 58 U. S. ( Closed ) Championship ( and all seven later championships he played in ), qualifying for the Candidates Tournament and becoming in 1958 the world's youngest grandmaster at age 15.

His first shot in the Open last year landed in a brook that flowed along the right side of the fairway.

They also started the All England Open Badminton Championships, the first badminton competition in the world, in 1899.

In February 1962, the United States launched an embargo against Cuba, and Lansdale presented a 26-page, top-secret timetable for implementation of the overthrow of the Cuban Government, mandating that guerrilla operations begin in August and September, and in the first two weeks of October: " Open revolt and overthrow of the Communist regime ".

The Open University of the United Kingdom ( UKOU ), established in 1969 as the first educational institution in the world wholly dedicated to open and distance learning, still relies heavily on print-based materials supplemented by radio, television and, in recent years, online programming.

Other uses of Forth include the Open Firmware boot ROMs used by Apple, IBM, Sun, and OLPC XO-1 ; and the FICL-based first stage boot controller of the FreeBSD operating system.

As part of the mass-education campaign of the 1970s, he founded five universities, each at different sites, in North Rhine-Westphalia and initiated Germany ’ s first distance learning university at Hagen ( modelled on the Open University ).

She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U. S. Open 1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Siegman 1999, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.

In April 1986, nine-year-old Judit played in her first rated tournament in the U. S., finishing first in the unrated section of the New York Open, winning $ 1, 000.

In 1988, she made her first International Norm in the International B section of the New York Open and by November 1988 she was awarded the International Master title, at the time the youngest ever to have achieved the distinction.

In August 1998, Polgár became the first woman to ever win the U. S. Open held at the Kona Surf Resort in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

As of version 9. 0 ( starting with the first test release after Alpha. 09 ), C-Kermit has an Open Source license, the Revised 3-Clause BSD License.

He achieved his first country award winning for Best Wide Open Country Video for " All Summer Long " at the 2009 CMT Awards.

Hewitt later won his first Grand Slam title at the US Open when he along with Max Mirnyi claimed the men's doubles championship ; thus becoming the youngest male ( at 19 years, 6 months ) to win a Grand Slam doubles crown in the open era.

He captured his first Grand Slam singles title at the US Open in 2001, when he beat former world no.

Hewitt was only the third defending Grand Slam champion in the open era to lose in the first round, after Boris Becker at the 1997 Australian Open and Patrick Rafter at the 1999 US Open.

2 Andy Roddick, 3 – 6, 7 – 6, 7 – 6, 6 – 1, to reach his first Australian Open final.

* 1914 – The first ever Lamar Hunt U. S. Open Cup final is played.

When the term OpenContent was first used by Wiley, it described works licensed under the Open Content License ( a non-free share-alike license, see ' Free content ' below ) and perhaps other works licensed under similar terms.

* 1895 – The first U. S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.

The United States successfully flew its first Open Skies mission over Russia in December 2002.

The U. S. National Men's Singles Championship, now the US Open, was first held in 1881 at the Newport Casino, Newport, Rhode Island.

** Mies Bouwman starts presenting the first live TV-marathon fundraising show ( Open Het Dorp ), which lasts 23 hours non-stop.

* October 17 – The Open Championship, also known as the British Open, is played for the first time at Prestwick Golf Club in Ayrshire, Scotland.