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.

Much research has been carried out on chess, in part because many tournament players are publicly ranked in national and international lists, which makes it possible to compare their levels of expertise.

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

The World Crokinole Championship ( WCC ) tournament has been held annually since 1999 on the first Saturday of June in Tavistock, Ontario.

The sport has particularly strong followings in the UK, US, New Zealand and Australia ; every four years, these countries play the MacRobertson Shield tournament.

However, little headway has been made to institute a playoff tournament, given the entrenched vested economic interests in the various bowls.

Australia has been the most successful of the five teams to have won the tournament, taking four titles.

In subsequent years, international Test cricket has generally been organised as bilateral series: a multilateral Test tournament was not organised again until the quadrangular Asian Test Championship in 1999.

A tournament director has the option of enforcing the 2-meter Rule regardless of whether or not the course enforces the rule.

There has been a football tournament at every Summer Olympic Games since 1900, except at the 1932 games in Los Angeles.

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 championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held because of the Second World War.

Indianapolis has played host for the men's tournament on three occasions to date.

Indianapolis has hosted all but one of the women's tournaments since its inception in 1995, and Bankers Life Fieldhouse has hosted every tournament since 2002, as well as the 2000 edition.

Aside from the multitude of regional games held during the NCAA tournament, Indianapolis has hosted six men's NCAA Final Fours ( 1980, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2010 ) and two women's ( 2005, 2011 ).

She holds the title of International Master ( IM ), and has one of three tournament results ( norms ) necessary to qualify for the International Grandmaster ( GM ) title.

Comparing motherhood to playing chess, Polgár has said that a chess tournament now " feels like a vacation.

Poker has gained in popularity since the beginning of the twentieth century, and has gone from being primarily a recreational activity confined to small groups of mostly male enthusiasts, to a widely popular spectator activity with international audiences and multi-million dollar tournament prizes.

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.

Nevertheless, he was still scoring and creating freely and as the tournament was about to start, he was expected to become one of its stars and galvanise his established reputation as one of the world's best footballers.

When the Azzuri crashed out to France in the 1986 tournament and Scirea retired, the mantle was passed to Baresi who returned to the side, a responsibility that become more poignant when Scirea was killed in a car accident aged 36, only months before Italy was to host the World Cup.

In 1888, the new Governor General of Canada, Lord Stanley of Preston, whose sons and daughter had become hockey enthusiasts, attended the Montreal Winter Carnival tournament and was impressed with the hockey spectacle.

By the 15th century, the term had become mostly detached from its military origins, not least because the rise of infantry in the 14th century had essentially confined knightly horsemanship to the tournament grounds, and essentially expressed a literary ideal of moral and courteous behavior.

Hungary had become a spent force after their appearance in the final of the previous tournament.

In round 4 it defeats Joe Sentef ( 2262 ) to become the first computer to beat a master in tournament play and the first computer to gain a master rating.

Kreese orders his students to leave Daniel alone, but under the condition that if Daniel does not show up for the tournament, the harassment will resume and Miyagi himself will also become a target.

As the crowd of children grew, alongside tournament and further development ambitions, the club decided to become official and registered for the Surrey County Football Association.

The average rating of the field was 2789, surpassing the 2009 Tal Memorial to become the strongest tournament in history.

The Martins have become a state tournament regular in recent years — returning nearly every year.

Through good times and bad the tournament has persevered to become one of the oldest in Missouri.

The Annual Pennsbury Invitational Tournament is a softball fastpitch tournament, and in its 27 years has become one of the largest and fastest-growing tournaments of its kind in the nation.

Hurlingham Park hosts the annual Polo in the Park tournament, which has become a recent feature of the area.

Most recently, fields using inflatable bunkers, tethered to the ground with stakes, have become standard for most tournament formats ; the soft, yielding bunkers reduce the occurrence of injuries, the bunkers deflate to store in a compact space and anchor to the ground with tent stakes, allowing for temporary fields to be set up and torn down with less impact on the ground underneath, and the arrangement of bunkers can be easily re-configured to maintain novelty of play or to simulate a predetermined field layout for an upcoming event.

While he was far from being the first American to become Open Champion, he was the first that many Americans saw win the tournament on television, and his charismatic success is often credited with persuading leading American golfers to make The Open an integral part of their schedule, rather than an optional extra.

From the 1950s, with the creation of the Rio-São Paulo Tournament, the forerunner of what eventually would become the national championship, Fluminense established itself regionally, with the tournament title in the years of 1957 and 1960.

Tournaments are one-off events where large numbers of Blood Bowl teams gather to play against each other and try to become the tournament champion.

By the end of the year, however, with six tournament titles, Laver had become the No. 2 professional player behind Rosewall.

In the tournament final, Jimmy Ellis decisioned Quarry on a split verdict to become new WBA Heavyweight Champion Of The World.

American golfers soon began to win regularly and the tournament evolved to become one of the four majors.

As the highest-ranking under-18 pro, Akira qualifies for the tournament, but Hikaru has to compete in a series of games to become one of the three Japanese competitors.

The accident caused the Missouri Valley Conference to ban its member schools from allowing cheerleaders to be " launched or tossed and from taking part in formations higher than two levels " for one week during a women's basketball conference tournament, and also resulted in a recommendation by the NCAA that conferences and tournaments do not allow pyramids two and one half levels high or higher, and a stunt known as basket tosses, during the rest of the men's and women's basketball season.

* Open SEAT, a tennis tournament in Barcelona now known as the Torneo Godó

EYP is also known for annual playground builds in underserved neighborhoods, an annual chess tournament, and a variety of other programs and events.

The artifacts known as the " Winchester Round Table ," a large tabletop hanging in Winchester Castle bearing the names of various knights of Arthur's court, was probably created for a Round Table tournament.

This tournament is known as Youth Club Championships, or YCC's, and often features at-large teams ( different players from within a large area such as New England ), no single high school team attends.

There are a number of notable world cups in popular sports, but it is the FIFA World Cup ( an Association football tournament, first held in 1930 ) that is widely known simply as " the World Cup ".

* September 23 – The first women's only tennis tournament begins in Houston, known as the Houston Women's Invitation.

Barthez was also well known during the tournament for letting teammate and good friend Laurent Blanc kiss his shaved head before the start of every match, supposedly for good luck.

At the end of each regular season, four teams from each conference ( the division winners and two Wild Card teams ) play in the AFL Playoffs, an eight-team single-elimination tournament that culminates with the championship game, known as the ArenaBowl.

Lékó was chosen because of the many novelties he has introduced to known chess theories, as well as his previous tournament win ; in addition, Lékó has supposedly played Fischer Random Chess games with Fischer himself.

Play-offs are used to decide the premiers of the National Rugby League ( NRL ) in Australasia, where they are known as finals ( also as semi finals or semis )-as in Australian rules football, the participating teams only come from within a single division, and the tournament is staged as single matches rather than series.

In the first few years of the United States National Championship only men competed and the tournament was known as the US National Singles Championships for Men.

Staunton is known to have been working on his edition of the complete works of Shakespeare at the time, but he also competed in a chess tournament during Morphy's visit.

Indiana is known for its high school basketball, and Hartford City high schools have had their share of success in the state basketball tournament.

There is also a pool tournament held in the Empire Village Inn ( known to locals simply as " The V. I.

Easton is the birthplace of legendary college basketball coach Henry Iba, who coached Oklahoma State ( then known as Oklahoma A & M ) to consecutive NCAA titles in 1945 and 1946, becoming the first two-time winning coach in the NCAA tournament.

The city hosts an annual ice fishing tournament known as Fishapalooza.

The Crown Australian Poker Championship, also known as the Aussie Millions, is the largest tournament in the Pacific region.

That changed in 2007, when the Central League adopted the Pacific League's tournament as well and the tournament became known as the Climax Series with the two winners, one from each league, competing in the Japan Series.

In 1926, Nelson College was invited to join the annual rugby tournament between Christ's College, Wanganui Collegiate School and Wellington College, known as the " Quadrangular ".

Sa Sartiglia, otherwise known at its inception as Sartilla, is an equestrian tournament held in Oristano for the past 500 years on Carnival Sunday and Mardi Gras.

Condom is known for the production of Armagnac, an international music festival of " bandas ", an international chess tournament and an international chess marathon.