It is known for hosting six major USGA events, including the U. S. Senior Open in 2003 and 2011.

* U. S. Women's Open – JoAnne Carner – this win made her the first person ever to win three different USGA individual championship events.

He received $ 150 cash out of a prize fund of $ 335, plus a $ 50 gold medal ; his club received the Open Championship Cup trophy, which was presented by the USGA.

The U. S. Open is open to any professional, or to any amateur with an up-to-date men's USGA Handicap Index not exceeding 1. 4.

# June-U. S. Open ( weekend ending with the 3rd Sunday in June )-hosted by the USGA and played at various locations in the USA

The USGA also conducts the U. S. Senior Open for competitors 50 and over.

Although a women's senior tour ( with a lower age limit of 45 instead of 50 ), now known as the Legends Tour, has existed since 2001, the USGA has not yet created a Senior Women's Open.

On 21 March 2005, the United States Golf Association announced it has adopted a new ' gender policy ' that allows transitioned athletes to compete in USGA golf championships, including the upcoming U. S. Women's Open.

It also offers a tennis facility rated # 3 by Tennis magazine and three 18-hole golf courses ; the East Course has hosted numerous USGA championships, most recently the 2008 U. S. Senior Open.

According to the USGA, as January 1, 2010, professional golfers on one of the top tours, or those attempting to qualify for one of the three Open Championships, will need to use new conforming wedges ( those without square grooves ).

The East Course, a Donald Ross design opened in 1918, has hosted several USGA championships since 1959, most recently the 2011 U. S. Women's Open, won by So Yeon Ryu.

The United States Women's Open Golf Championship, one of thirteen national championships conducted by the United States Golf Association ( USGA ), is one of the LPGA Tour's four major championships along with the LPGA Championship, the Women's British Open, and the Kraft Nabisco Championship.

* June – U. S. Open Championship ( weekend ending with the 3rd Sunday in June ) – hosted by the USGA and played at various locations in the United States.

In contrast, The Masters is owned by the Augusta National Golf Club ; the U. S. Open by the United States Golf Association ( USGA ); The Open Championship by The R & A, an offshoot of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews ; and the PGA Championship by the Professional Golfers ' Association of America ( PGA of America ).

The other three senior majors are operated by the same bodies that organize their mainstream counterparts — the PGA of America for the Senior PGA, The R & A for the Senior British Open, and the USGA for the U. S. Senior Open.

She is the only woman to have won the U. S. Girls ' Junior, U. S. Women's Amateur, and U. S. Women's Open titles, and was the first person ever to win three different USGA championship events.

The Yale course has been the site of every significant state championship, two USGA Junior National events, the 1991 and 2004 NCAA Eastern Regional championships ( in 2004 only 3 players in the field finished below par after 54 holes of play ), the 1991 ECAC Men's Championship, and the 1992 ECAC Women's Championship, as well as the Nike Connecticut Open.

A total of 11 USGA championships have been contested at Pebble Beach Golf Links, five of which were U. S. Open championships held in 1972, 1982, 1992, 2000 and 2010.

Future Hall Of Fame golfer Tom Watson hit his tee shot on 17 into the rough which had been grown very thick as per USGA Open playing conditions.

Perhaps looking for a special place to host the 2000 U. S. Open, the USGA bumped Pebble Beach up a couple of years in the rotation to host the last U. S. Open of the millennium.

The United States Golf Association ( USGA ) cites three stories explaining that the term derived from the name of a Canadian golfer, David Mulligan, one time manager of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, who played at the Country Club of Montreal golf course, in Saint-Lambert near Montreal during the 1920s.

As of 1 January 2008, the USGA and R & A have settled on a regulation that limits the acceptable " trampoline effect " to a coefficient of restitution ( COR )— a measurement of the efficiency of the transfer of energy from the club head to the ball — of. 830.

The USGA increases the minimum size of the golf ball from 1. 62 inches to 1. 68 inches, and decreases the maximum weight from 1. 62 ounces to 1. 55.

The event is the championship of the United States Golf Association, and in having a very strict exempt qualifiers list-made up of recent major champions, professionals currently ranked high in the world rankings or on the previous year's money lists around the world, and leading amateurs from recent USGA events-about half of the 156-person field still enters the tournament through two rounds of open qualification events, mostly held in the U. S. but also in Europe and Japan.

The stymie was finally removed from the rules effective in 1952, when the USGA and R & A established a joint set of rules.

The United States Golf Association ( USGA ) barred it from being sold at the event, deeming it inappropriate.

Recently, a ruling by the USGA and R & A to ban the sale of wedges with backspin-increasing ' square ' grooves ( but grandfathered certain existing designs ) accelerated revenues from wedge sales as golfers rushed to acquire designs incorporating these grooves before the ban took effect.

* Entries are accepted from golfers with a USGA men's handicap of 4. 4 or lower, as opposed to 2. 4 for the U. S. Amateur.

In February 2007, the USGA selected Sahalee to host the 2010 U. S. Senior Open, held from July 29 to August 1.

The controversy led to the formation of the United States Golf Association later in 1894 ; the USGA became the first formal golf organization in the country.

The woods may also have very large heads, up to 460 cm³ in volume ( the maximum allowed by the USGA in sanctioned events ; drivers with even larger clubhead volumes are available for long-drive competitions and informal games ).

The " traditional and customary " rule was originally used to ban the introduction of steel club shafts ( patented in 1910 ), as that material was not traditional for shafts ; that specific ban was rescinded in 1924 by the USGA ( the R & A would continue to ban steel shafts until 1929 ), and steel would become universal until the development of graphite shafts whose introduction was less controversial.

The calendar was sold openly at Golf Canada ; the USGA was criticized for overreacting.

* Birmingham Open Guides

Thus, she became the second-oldest player in the Open era to win a singles title on the WTA Tour, after Billie Jean King, who won Birmingham in 1983, aged 39 years, 7 months and 23 days.

In 1888 the Birmingham Society for the Preservation of Open Spaces purchased Rednal Hill and handed it to the city in trust.

His commissions have included The Marshes of Glynn for the Royal opening of the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham in 1986 ; Centenary Fire Dances for the City of Birmingham ’ s Centenary Festival of Fireworks and Music ; an Overture for the Three Choirs Festival ; songs for the Cantamus Girls Choir ; song cycles for mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker and tenor John Mitchinson for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 ; anthems for the BBC Radio 4 Daily Service ; Sonata for 8 Horns for the Horn Octet of the University of New Mexico ; Suite for 6 Horns for the Vienna Horn Society ; Song of the Eagle for the James Madison University Flute Choir of Virginia ; Concerto for Two Pianos for the Duo Scaramouche ; Sonata for 8 Pianists for soloists from France, Italy and Britain ; Mela Kamavardhani for performances by Indo-Jazz Fusions in Calcutta, Delhi and Bombay ; Fanfare for Madam Speaker, for the Installation of the Rt Hon Betty Boothroyd MP as Chancellor of the Open University in 1994 ; Concerto for Two Guitars for Simon Dinnigan and Fred T. Baker with Strings from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; Concert Overture ' Towards a New Age ' for the 150th anniversary of the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, premiered in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; and Suite for Brass Sextet for the Czech Philharmonic Brass Sextet.

Middleton previously taught at the University of Birmingham and the Open University.

The park exists in its current form only through the activities and generosity of the early 20th century philanthropic Birmingham Society for the Preservation of Open Spaces who purchased Rednal Hill and later arranged for Pinfield Wood and Bilberry Hill to be permanently leased on a nominal peppercorn rent.

In 1888 the Birmingham Society for the Preservation of Open Spaces purchased Rednal Hill and handed it to the City in trust.

One recent composition to fit this description is Vienna Nights, which was commissioned as the test piece for the 2006 British Open Brass Band Championship held in Symphony Hall, Birmingham.

His solo exhibitions include Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin ( 2010 ), Sala Diaz Gallery, San Antonio, Texas ( 2010 ), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham ( 2006 ), Kunstmuseum Magdeburg ( 2005 ), Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool ( 2003 ) and Pearl Gallery, London ( 2003 ).

Noted graduates and associates of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and the Department of Cultural Studies include: Paul Gilroy ( LSE ) theorist of culture and race, Angela McRobbie ( Goldsmiths ) theorist of consumption, femininity and popular culture, Celia Lurie ( Goldsmiths ) feminist theory and consumption, Jackie Stacey ( University of Manchester, film, cancer culture and science in culture ', Sarah Franklin ( LSE ) science as culture, Debbie Epstein ( University of Cardiff education, childhood and youth studies, sexuality and popular culture, Peter Redman ( The Open University ) masculinities, psychoanalytic theor, Mary Jane Kehily ( The Open University ) childhood and youth studies, Joyce Canaan ( City University, Birmingham ) cultures of higher education, Anoop Nayak ( Newcastle University ) geographies of race, Deborah Lynn Steinberg ( Warwick University ) science cultures, sexuality and popular culture, Hilary Pilkington ( Warwick University ) Russia and youth subcultures, Sue Wright ( Danish Pedagogic University ) cultures of higher education, Hazel Carby ( Yale ) race and literature, David Parker ( Nottingham University ), Mica Nava ( University of East London ) media studies, Chris Griffin ( Bath University ) girls and youth cultures, and Adrian Kear ( Aberystwith University ) performance studies and psychoanalysis, Kevin J. Brehony ( Roehampton University ) historical studies of educational ideologies ..

* Anon, ' Some appreciations of Richard Bissell Prosser ', 1918, privately printed, 18 pp ( Reprints obituaries from: Engineering, The Engineer, Notes and Queries, The Birmingham Daily Post, The Guardian, The Church Times, Free and Open Church Association, The Church Union Gazette, Kentish Town Parish Magazine )

With the return to the field in 1980, the corps was competitive in Class A competitions but only managed a thirty-eighth place finish of the forty-four corps performing in Open Class at the DCI World Championships in Birmingham, Alabama.

Free public open access began in 1888 when Rednal Hill was bought by the Birmingham Society for the Preservation of Open Space.

The series is a collaboration between the Open University and BBC Productions, Birmingham.