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Harrison, New York
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Harrison is a village and town located in Westchester County, New York, approximately 22 miles northeast of Manhattan. The population was 27,472 at the 2010 census, Harrison was ranked sixth in the list of the top 10 places to live in New York State for 2014 according to the national online real estate brokerage Movoto. According to Forbes, Harrison is the 326th wealthiest place in the United States with a sale price of $1,230,625. Fundera ranked Harrison the best place in New York for small business, local custom holds that Harrison was given 24 hours to ride his horse around the area he could claim, and the horse couldnt swim or didnt want to get its feet wet, but this is folklore. In fact, the land below Westchester Path and along Long Island Sound had already purchased and partly developed by the settlers of Rye. The area that became Harrison had also sold in 1661 or 1662, and again in 1666, to Peter Disbrow, John Budd. Disbrow and Budd evidently lost their paperwork and the land was granted to Harrison. So upset were the people or Rye that they seceded to the Colony of Connecticut until 1700, harrisons Purchase was administered jointly by the settlers of Rye until it was incorporated as a town on March 7,1788, by an act of the New York State legislature. Merritts Hill in West Harrison was the site of the Battle of White Plains during the Revolutionary War, Regiment 182 of the Continental Army, of the 367 regiments there, was the Harrison Regiment, composed solely of people from Harrison. During the 1830s, David Haviland settled in Harrison where he produced Haviland China which he sold in his store in New York City before returning to his native France, in 1867 Benjamin Holladay purchased the land that is now Manhattanville College in Purchase. On the property is a Norman-style Roman Catholic chapel built for his wife, there is also Reid Castle, once called the Ophir House, before being renamed for a later purchaser. The castle hosted the King and Queen of Siam in the early 1930s, before that time, Harrisonites had to flag down the train to get a ride. Harrison remained generally free of factories through the Industrial Revolution, while large factory districts grew in the towns of White Plains, Port Chester. In 1929, the Hutchinson River Parkway was extended to Harrison, in 1967,200 residents stated support for a plan to incorporate Purchase, a community in Harrison, so that corporations could not build in the community. In response, officials from the Town of Harrison put forward plans to try to become a city to try to stop Purchase from seceding from Harrison, the resolution was for the Town became a hybrid Town / Village, which it remains today. John A. Passidomo was first elected Mayor in 1965 by only 67 votes, re-elected eight times, he served until 1983 when he resigned to become Commissioner of the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles. In his two and a half years at that job, he helped one of the nations first seat-belt laws despite the laws unpopularity. Harrisons Platinum Mile, a string of corporate office parks along I-287 in the Purchase section of Harrison, the mayor played an instrumental role in attracting large corporations such as PepsiCo, MasterCard and Texaco
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Ben Hogan
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William Ben Hogan was an American professional golfer, generally considered one of the greatest players in the history of the game. His nine career professional major championships tie him with Gary Player for fourth all-time, trailing only Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and he is one of only five golfers to have won all four major championships currently open to professionals. The other four are Nicklaus, Woods, Player, and Gene Sarazen, born in Stephenville, Texas, he was the third and youngest child of Chester and Clara Hogan. His father was a blacksmith and the family lived ten miles southwest in Dublin until 1921, in 1922, when Hogan was nine, his father Chester committed suicide by self-inflicted gunshot at the family home. By some accounts, Chester committed suicide in front of him, following his fathers suicide, the family incurred financial difficulty and the children took jobs to help their seamstress mother make ends meet. Older brother Royal quit school at age 14 to deliver supplies by bicycle. A tip from a friend led him to caddying at the age of 11 at Glen Garden Country Club, one of his fellow caddies at Glen Garden was Byron Nelson, later a tour rival. The two would tie for the lead at the annual Christmas caddy tournament in December 1927, when both were 15, Nelson sank a 30-foot putt to tie on the ninth and final hole. Instead of sudden death, they played another nine holes, Nelson sank another substantial putt on the green to win by a stroke. The following spring, Nelson was granted the only junior membership offered by the members of Glen Garden. Club rules did not allow caddies age 16 and older, so after August 1928, Hogan met Valerie Fox in Sunday school in Fort Worth in the mid-1920s, and they reacquainted in 1932 when he landed a low-paying club pro job in Cleburne, where her family had moved. They married in April 1935 at her parents home and his early years as a pro were very difficult, and Hogan went broke more than once. He did not win his first pro tournament as an individual until March 1940, when he won three consecutive tournaments in North Carolina. Although it took a decade to secure his first victory, Hogans wife Valerie believed in him, and this helped see him through the years when he battled a hook. Despite finishing 13th on the money list in 1938, Hogan had to take an assistant pro job at Century Country Club in Purchase, New York. He worked at Century as an assistant and then as the head pro until 1941, between the years of 1938 through 1959, Hogan won 63 professional golf tournaments despite his career being interrupted in its prime by World War II and a near-fatal car accident. Hogan served in the U. S. Army Air Forces from March 1943 to June 1945, becoming a utility pilot with the rank of lieutenant stationed at Fort Worth, Texas. Hogan and his wife, Valerie, survived a collision with a Greyhound bus on a fog-shrouded bridge, early in the morning, east of Van Horn
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Jack Nicklaus
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Jack William Nicklaus, nicknamed The Golden Bear, is a retired American professional golfer. He is widely regarded as the greatest golfer of all time, winning a record 18 career major championships, while producing 19 second-place and 9 third-place finishes, over a span of 25 years. After winning the U. S. Amateur in 1959 and 1961 and his first professional win came in a major championship, the 1962 U. S. Open, when he defeated Palmer by three shots in a next day 18-hole playoff. This win over Palmer began the rivalry between the two golf superstars. At age 26, he became the youngest to do so at the time, in 1968 and 1969, Nicklaus did not win a major tournament. He then won another Open Championship in 1970, at the age of 46, Nicklaus claimed his 18th and final major championship at the 1986 Masters Tournament, becoming the championships oldest winner. He continued to play at least some of the four regular Tour majors until 2005, Nicklaus has also taken part in various other activities, including golf course design, charity work and book writing. Nicklaus is a member of the American Society of Golf Course Architects and has helped design such as Harbour Town Golf Links. Nicklaus also runs his own tournament on the PGA Tour, the Memorial Tournament and his golf course design company is one of the largest in the world. Nicklaus was born on the east side of Columbus, grew up in the suburb of Upper Arlington, Ohio and is of German descent, Charlie had also been a scratch golfer and local tennis champion in his youth. Nicklaus was raised in Upper Arlington, and attended Upper Arlington High School, whose nickname and he also competed successfully during his youth in football, baseball, tennis, and track and field. Nicklaus took up golf at the age of 10, scoring a 51 at Scioto Country Club for his first nine holes ever played, Charlie Nicklaus had joined Scioto that same year, returning to golf to help heal a volleyball injury. Nicklaus overcame a mild case of polio as a 13-year-old, Nicklaus won the first of five straight Ohio State Junior titles at the age of 12. At 13, he broke 70 at Scioto Country Club for the first time, Junior Amateur, where he survived three match-play rounds. He had earned a handicap of +3 at age 13, the lowest in the Columbus area, Nicklaus won the Tri-State High School Championship at the age of 14 with a round of 68, and also recorded his first hole-in-one in tournament play the same year. At 15, Nicklaus shot a 66 at Scioto Country Club, which was the course record. He won the Ohio Open in 1956 at age 16, highlighted by a third round of 64. In all, Nicklaus won 27 events in the Ohio area from age 10 to age 17, in 1957, Nicklaus won the International Jaycee Junior Golf Tournament, having lost the previous year in a playoff
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Tiger Woods
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Eldrick Tont Tiger Woods is an American professional golfer who is among the most successful golfers of all time. He has been one of the athletes in the world for several years. Following an outstanding amateur and two-year college golf career, Woods turned professional at age 20 in late summer 1996. By April 1997 he had won his first major, the 1997 Masters, in a record-breaking performance, winning the tournament by 12 strokes. He first reached the one position in the world rankings in June 1997. Through the 2000s, Woods was the dominant force in golf, from December 2009 to early April 2010, Woods took leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage after he admitted infidelity, but he and his wife Elin Nordegren eventually divorced. His many alleged extramarital indiscretions were revealed by several different women and this was followed by a loss of golf form, and his ranking gradually fell to a low of No.58 in November 2011. He ended a winless streak of 107 weeks when he triumphed in the Chevron World Challenge in December 2011. After winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational on March 25,2013, he ascended to the No.1 ranking once again, Woods had back surgery in April 2014 and September 2015 and has struggled since to regain his dominant form. By March 29,2015, Woods had fallen to #104, in May 2016, Woods dropped out of the world top 500 for the first time in his professional career. Woods has broken numerous golf records and he has been World Number One for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks of any golfer. He has won 14 professional major golf championships, the second-highest of any player, and 79 PGA Tour events, second all time behind Sam Snead and he has more career major wins and career PGA Tour wins than any other active golfer. He is the youngest player to achieve the career Grand Slam, additionally, Woods is only the second golfer to have achieved a career Grand Slam three times. Woods has won 18 World Golf Championships, and won at least one of those events in each of the first 11 years after they began in 1999, Woods and Rory McIlroy are the only golfers to win both The Silver Medal and The Gold Medal at The Open Championship. Woods was born in Cypress, California, to Earl and Kultida Woods, Kultida, originally from Thailand, is of mixed Thai, Chinese, and Dutch ancestry. Earl, a lieutenant colonel and Vietnam War veteran, was of mostly African American. Earls mother Maude Carter was of light skin, some suggest possible Native American and Chinese ancestry. Tiger refers to his ethnic make-up as Cablinasian, Woods first name, Eldrick, was coined by his mother because it began with E and ended with K
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Great Britain
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Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of 209,331 km2, Great Britain is the largest European island, in 2011 the island had a population of about 61 million people, making it the worlds third-most populous island after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan. The island of Ireland is situated to the west of it, the island is dominated by a maritime climate with quite narrow temperature differences between seasons. Politically, the island is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, most of England, Scotland, and Wales are on the island. The term Great Britain often extends to surrounding islands that form part of England, Scotland, and Wales. A single Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the union of the Kingdom of England, the archipelago has been referred to by a single name for over 2000 years, the term British Isles derives from terms used by classical geographers to describe this island group. By 50 BC Greek geographers were using equivalents of Prettanikē as a name for the British Isles. However, with the Roman conquest of Britain the Latin term Britannia was used for the island of Great Britain, the oldest mention of terms related to Great Britain was by Aristotle, or possibly by Pseudo-Aristotle, in his text On the Universe, Vol. III. To quote his works, There are two large islands in it, called the British Isles, Albion and Ierne. The name Britain descends from the Latin name for Britain, Britannia or Brittānia, Old French Bretaigne and Middle English Bretayne, Breteyne. The French form replaced the Old English Breoton, Breoten, Bryten, Breten, Britannia was used by the Romans from the 1st century BC for the British Isles taken together. It is derived from the writings of the Pytheas around 320 BC. Marcian of Heraclea, in his Periplus maris exteri, described the group as αἱ Πρεττανικαὶ νῆσοι. The peoples of these islands of Prettanike were called the Πρεττανοί, Priteni is the source of the Welsh language term Prydain, Britain, which has the same source as the Goidelic term Cruithne used to refer to the early Brythonic-speaking inhabitants of Ireland. The latter were later called Picts or Caledonians by the Romans, the Greco-Egyptian scientist Ptolemy referred to the larger island as great Britain and to Ireland as little Britain in his work Almagest. The name Albion appears to have out of use sometime after the Roman conquest of Britain. After the Anglo-Saxon period, Britain was used as a term only. It was used again in 1604, when King James VI and I styled himself King of Great Brittaine, France, Great Britain refers geographically to the island of Great Britain, politically to England, Scotland and Wales in combination
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Prince's Golf Club, Sandwich
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Princes Golf Club, Sandwich is a links golf course located in Sandwich in Kent in South East England. Princes is immediately adjacent to the more famous Royal St Georges golf club and it is notable for hosting the 1932 Open Championship. Princes was financed by Sir Harry Mallaby-Deeley, Bt and designed by Charles Hutchings and it was completed late in 1906 as an 18-hole course, and was the first course designed to counter the significantly longer Haskell ball. Balfour, a former British Prime Minister, drove the first ball in the Founder’s Vase in June 1907, the present-day 27-hole layout is the result of a 1950 re-design following war-time damage to the original course. World War II was very hard on Princes, but Australian entrepreneur Sir Aynsley Bridgland intervened, engaging Sir Guy Campbell and John Morrison to re-design, the new layout incorporated 17 of the original greens, and eliminated any blind tee or approach shots. The original clubhouse still stands at the entrance to the course and it no longer serves as the clubhouse but instead has been completely renovated, called the Lodge, it opened in May 2012, with two adjoining buildings, which house 38 bedrooms, a brasserie and lodge. Princes is notable for hosting the 1932 Open Championship, which was won by the American Gene Sarazen, Sarazen debuted his newly invented sand iron at the Championship, and his original club was on display at Princes for many years, until insurance costs became prohibitively expensive. The greenside bunker beside the 9th green on the Himalayas course, Princes is one of only two clubs to host The Open just once, the other being Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland. The late WWII ace, Member of Parliament and 1949 Walker Cup captain Percy Belgrave Laddie Lucas was born in the old clubhouse at Princes, during WWII, Lucas used his knowledge of the course to make an emergency landing after his Spitfire was crippled over northern France. Today, a plaque by the 4th tee on the Himalayas course marks the spot where he landed. In memory of Lucas, Princes hosts a golf tournament. Phil Mickelson and Gary Player are both honorary life members of Princes Golf Club, ladies European Tour player Helen Wadsworth is a former member and played at Princes as a junior. In August 2009 Troon Golf announced an agreement to take over management at Princes. Princes Golf Club hosted The Open Championship in 1932, note, Superscript number besides the players name is the number of the Open Championship in their respective careers. Media related to Princes Golf Club at Wikimedia Commons Official site The Open Championship 1932
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Byron Nelson
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John Byron Nelson, Jr. was an American professional golfer between 1935 and 1946, one of the greats not only in his day but over the history of the sport. Nelson and two other champions of the time, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead, were born within seven months of each other in 1912. Although he won tournaments in the course of his relatively brief career. As a former Masters champion he continued to play in that annual tournament, in 1974, Byron Nelson received the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. Nelson became the recipient of the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. He received the 1994 Old Tom Morris Award from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, Nelson was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2006. Born near Waxahachie, Texas, Byron Nelson was the son of Madge Allen Nelson and John Byron Nelson, Sr. His parents set a precedent for him not only in their long lives — Madge Nelson lived to age 98, and her husband to age 77 — but also in their religious commitment. Madge, who had grown up Baptist, was baptized in the Church of Christ at age 18, soon after his baptism at age 12, he started caddying at Glen Garden Country Club. On his caddying days, Nelson said, I knew nothing about caddying at first, the other caddies, though, didnt like to see any new ones, because that might mean they wouldnt get a job sometime. In 1934, Nelson was working as a pro in Texarkana, Arkansas. After turning professional in 1932, Nelson served as a professional in Texas. Money was tight, as Texas was hit hard by the Great Depression. A pair of top-three finishes in important Texas events encouraged him and he then took a club professionals job at the Ridgewood Country Club in New Jersey in 1935. Nelson is sometimes credited as being the father of the golf swing. He refined the changes for a couple of years, and then took his game to the highest level of competition, Nelson waited until 1935 to post his first significant victory, at the New Jersey State Open. He followed this up with a win at the Metropolitan Open the following year and he reportedly won this tournament with $5 in my pocket. Nelson won his first major title at The Masters in 1937, during this tournament he shot a first-round 66, which was the lowest first round score at the Masters until 1976, when Raymond Floyd had 65 en route to his victory
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Naples, Florida
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Naples is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States. As of 2015, the population was about 20,600. Naples is a city of the Naples-Marco Island, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Naples is one of the wealthiest cities in the United States, with the sixth highest per capita income in America, real estate is among the most expensive in the country, with houses for sale in excess of $40 million. The city of Naples was founded during the late 1880s by former Confederate general, senator John Stuart Williams and his partner, Louisville businessman Walter N. Haldeman, the publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Throughout the 1870s and 80s, magazine and newspaper stories telling of the mild climate and abundant fish. The name Naples caught on when promoters described the bay as surpassing the bay in Naples, during the war the U. S. Army Air Forces built a small airfield and used it for training purposes, it is now the Naples Municipal Airport. Fill was required to damage from a 1945 hurricane. A local dredging company, Forrest Walker & Sons, created a north of 16th Avenue S. In 1949, Forrest Walker asked Mr. Rust to sell him the 296 acres from Jamaica Channel to todays 14th Avenue S. The Jamaica Channel was widened, one canal was dredged, and 14th Avenue S was created by March 1950, additional channels were eventually added to the south of 14th Avenue S and are named alphabetically for local water birds. From the channels there are coves named Flamingo, Gull, Heron and these initial channels, canals, and coves were dredged and bulldozed from the mangrove swamps. Where shallow rock precluded digging, land was filled to create lots with navigable water, the Aqualane Shores Association was incorporated as a non-profit corporation on February 3,1966. The numerous canals and waterfront homes add a feature to the south portion of Naples. As of the census of 2010, there were 19,537 people,9,710 households, the population density was 1,744.3 per square mile. There were 16,957 housing units at a density of 1,410.0 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 94. 1% White,4. 5% Black,0. 12% Native American,0. 33% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,0. 30% from other races, and 1. 0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4. 5% of the population,34. 0% of all households were made up of individuals and 20. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older
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The Open Championship
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The Open Championship, often referred to as The Open or the British Open, is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. Held in the United Kingdom, it is administered by The R&A and is the only major outside the United States, the Open is currently the third major of the year, between the U. S. Open and the PGA Championship, and is played in mid-July. The current champion is Henrik Stenson, who won the 145th Open at Royal Troon in 2016 with a score of −20. The Open was first played on 17 October 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland, the inaugural tournament was restricted to professionals and attracted a field of eight golfers who played three rounds of Prestwicks twelve-hole course in a single day. Willie Park Sr. won with a score of 174, beating Old Tom Morris, the following year the tournament was opened to amateurs, eight of them joined ten professionals in the field. James Ogilvie Fairlie was the organiser of the first Open Championship held at Prestwick in 1860. With the untimely death of Allan Robertson, aged 43 in 1859, originally, the trophy presented to the events winner was the Challenge Belt, a red leather belt with a silver buckle. The Challenge Belt was retired in 1870, when Young Tom Morris was allowed to keep it for winning the tournament three consecutive times, because no trophy was available, the tournament was cancelled in 1871. In 1872, after Young Tom Morris won again for a time in a row. The present trophy, The Golf Champion Trophy, better known by its name of the Claret Jug, was then created. Prestwick administered The Open from 1860 to 1870, in 1871, it agreed to organise it jointly with The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. In 1892 the event was doubled in length from 36 to 72 holes, the 1894 Open was the first held outside Scotland, at the Royal St Georges Golf Club in England. Because of a number of entrants, a cut was introduced after two rounds in 1898. In 1920 full responsibility for The Open Championship was handed over to The Royal & Ancient Golf Club, the early winners were all Scottish professionals, who in those days worked as greenkeepers, clubmakers, and caddies to supplement their modest winnings from championships and challenge matches. The Open has always dominated by professionals, with only six victories by amateurs. The last of these was Bobby Jones third Open and part of his celebrated Grand Slam, Jones was one of six Americans who won The Open between the First and Second World Wars, the first of whom had been Walter Hagen in 1922. These Americans and the French winner of the 1907 Open, Arnaud Massy, were the winners from outside Scotland and England up to 1939. The first post-World War II winner was the American Sam Snead, in 1947, Northern Irelands Fred Daly was victorious
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Walter Hagen
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Walter Charles Hagen was an American professional golfer and a major figure in golf in the first half of the 20th century. His tally of 11 professional majors is third behind Jack Nicklaus, Hagen won the U. S. Open twice, and in 1922 he became the first native-born American to win the British Open, and won the Claret Jug three more times. He also won the PGA Championship a record-tying five times, Hagen totaled 45 PGA wins in his career, and was a six-time Ryder Cup captain. The Masters Tournament, the newest major, was established in 1934, born in Rochester, New York, Hagen came from a working-class family of German descent. His parents were William and Louisa Hagen, his father worked as a millwright, Walter was the second of William and Louisas five children and the only son. Hagen developed his game at the Country Club of Rochester, beginning as a caddy. He earned ten cents per round and was occasionally tipped another five cents, Hagen played golf at every chance he got, caddy access to the course was limited to off-peak times, as it was elsewhere in the U. S. during that era. He made his top-class professional debut at age 19 at the 1912 Canadian Open, placing 11th, a good showing. Hagen followed up with a surprise 4th place showing at the 1913 U. S. Open at Brookline where he stated that he was treated badly by the professionals who knew nothing about him. Hagen said they pushed me off the tee and told me I could practice when they were through and he vowed to play in the 1914 U. S. Open and win it, and he did exactly that. Hagen was also skilled at baseball, primarily as a pitcher. He canceled a 1914 tryout for the Philadelphia Phillies in order to play in a golf tournament, later that week, Hagen was the U. S. Open Champion, and his career was changed forever. Hagen was a key figure in the development of professional golf and he emerged in an era when the division between amateurs and professionals was often stark, with the amateurs having the upper hand in some sports, golf among them. This was especially true in the United Kingdom, which was the country in competitive golf when Hagen began his career. Golf professionals were not allowed to partake of the facilities of the clubhouse, on one occasion, at the 1920 British Open in Deal, Kent, Hagen hired a Pierce-Arrow car to serve as his private dressing room, because he was refused entrance to the clubhouse dressing room. He hired a chauffeur, and parked the car in the clubs driveway. On another occasion, he refused to enter a clubhouse to claim his prize because he had earlier been denied entrance. The 1920 U. S. Hagen represented the Country Club of Rochester early in his competitive career, he was well supported by its members
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Bobby Jones (golfer)
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Robert Tyre Bobby Jones Jr. was an American amateur golfer, and a lawyer by profession, who was one of the most influential figures in the history of the sport. Jones founded and helped design the Augusta National Golf Club, the innovations that he introduced at the Masters have been copied by virtually every professional golf tournament in the world. Jones was the most successful amateur golfer ever to compete at a national and international level, during his peak from 1923 to 1930, he dominated top-level amateur competition, and competed very successfully against the worlds best professional golfers. Jones often beat stars such as Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen, explaining his decision to retire, Jones said, It is something like a cage. First you are expected to get into it and then you are expected to stay there, but of course, nobody can stay there. Jones is most famous for his unique Grand Slam, consisting of his victory in all four major tournaments of his era in a single calendar year. In all Jones played in 31 majors, winning 13 and placing among the top ten finishers 27 times, after retiring from competitive golf in 1930, Jones founded and helped design the Augusta National Golf Club soon afterwards in 1933. He also co-founded the Masters Tournament, which has annually staged by the club since 1934. The Masters evolved into one of four major championships. Jones came out of retirement in 1934 to play in the Masters on a basis through 1948. Jones played his last round of golf at East Lake Golf Club, his course in Atlanta. A picture commemorating the event now sits in the clubhouse at East Lake, citing health reasons, he quit golf permanently thereafter. Bobby Jones was often confused with the golf course designer, Robert Trent Jones. People always used to get confused, so when they met, they decided each be called something different. To help avoid confusion, the golfer was called Bobby, born in Atlanta, Georgia, Jones battled health issues as a young boy, and golf was prescribed to strengthen him. Encouraged by his father, Colonel Robert Purmedus Jones, an Atlanta lawyer and he developed quickly into a child prodigy, who won his first childrens tournament at the age of six at his home course at East Lake Golf Club. His victory at this event put him in the spotlight for the first time. The Georgia Amateur win caught the eye of the United States Golf Association which awarded Jones his first invitation to the U. S. Amateur at Merion near Philadelphia, Jones advanced to the quarterfinals in his first playing in the event
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