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Maurice Gerald Flitcroft (23 November 1929 – 24 March 2007) was a British golfer.. Flitcroft received widespread attention after shooting a score of 121 in the qualifying competition for the 1976 Open Championship – the worst score recorded at the Open Championship by a self-professed "professional golfer", having been an inexperienced golfer.
Within a month of hitting his first golf shot, Travis earned his first trophy by winning the Oakland Golf Club handicap competition. Travis became, in his words, "an infatuated devotee" of the game. He dedicated himself to the study of instructional books written by Horace Hutchinson , Willie Park, Jr. , and others.
Tom Coyne is an American writer, professor, and editor. Coyne has published five books, A Gentleman's Game (2002), Paper Tiger (2007), A Course Called Ireland (2009), A Course Called Scotland (2019), and A Course Called America (2021).
“The Long Game” is based on the true story of five Mexican American high school students who were banned from playing golf at an all-white Texas country club in the 1950s.
Hill finished runner-up at the 1970 U.S. Open.What gained him the most notoriety, though, was not his excellent play but his criticisms of the golf course. In the middle of the championship, before the third round, Hill was fined $150 by Joe Dey Jr., commissioner of the Tournament Players Division of the PGA of America, for "criticism that tends to ridicule and demean the club".
The Permanent Galleries in the USGA Museum tell the story of golf in America, from the late 19th century to the present. Each gallery focuses on an era and iconic moment – champions and events in the game's history that are pivotal for understanding the growth, evolution, and significance of the game in U.S. history.
FILE - Kathy Whitworth of San Antonio, blast out of sand trap on 18th green and then sinks a 6-foot putt to go into the lead of the Women Titleholders Golf Tournament at Augusta, Ga., Nov. 25, 1966.
The Phantom of the Open is a 2021 British biographical comedy-drama film directed by Craig Roberts, about the exploits of Maurice Flitcroft.The screenplay by Simon Farnaby was based upon the biography The Phantom of the Open: Maurice Flitcroft, The World's Worst Golfer by Farnaby and Scott Murray.