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  2. The Golf Specialist - Wikipedia

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    The Golf Specialist is a 1930 pre-Code comedy short subject from RKO Pictures, starring W. C. Fields. It was his first talkie . The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey when many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there in the early part of the 20th century.

  3. Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius - Wikipedia

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    Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is a 2004 biographical sports drama film directed and co-written by Rowdy Herrington.The film is based on the life of golfer Bobby Jones, the only player in the sport to win all four of the men's major golf championships in a single season (1930, an era when the majors were The Amateur Championship in Britain, the U.S. Amateur, The Open Championship, and the U.S ...

  4. George C. Thomas Jr. - Wikipedia

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    George Clifford Thomas Jr. (October 3, 1873 – February 23, 1932) was an American golf course architect, botanist, and writer. He designed the original course at Whitemarsh Valley Country Club, outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and more than twenty courses in California, including Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades and Red Hill Country Club in Rancho Cucamonga.

  5. Pine Valley Golf Club - Wikipedia

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    The second hole in 1921, featuring a carry over wasteland to the green. Pine Valley was founded in 1913 by a group of amateur golfers from Philadelphia.They purchased 184 acres (0.7 km²) of rolling, sandy ground deep in the pinelands of southern New Jersey, and gave George Arthur Crump, who knew the area from hunting expeditions, the opportunity to design the course.

  6. TPC at Sawgrass - Wikipedia

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    The Stadium Course was designed by noted golf course architects Pete and Alice Dye, and is known as one of the most difficult golf courses in the world. Constructed specifically to host The Players Championship, it employs a distinctive "stadium" concept: like in other sports, fans at the TPC sit in "stands" made of raised mounds of grass.

  7. Alister MacKenzie - Wikipedia

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    Alister MacKenzie (30 August 1870 – 6 January 1934) was an English golf course architect whose course designs span four continents. Originally trained as a surgeon, MacKenzie served as a civilian physician with the British Army during the Boer War where he first became aware of the principles of camouflage.

  8. I've been to over 200 high-end golf courses around the globe ...

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    I've played golf for decades and have visited many famous golf courses around the world.. I often see first-timers at high-end courses forget to check the dress code or choose the wrong tee.

  9. Gil Hanse - Wikipedia

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    Gil Hanse. Gilbert Hanse (born August 12, 1963) is an American golf course designer. Hanse, along with his business partner Jim Wagner, was selected to design the Rio 2016 Olympic Golf Course, the first Olympic venue to host golf since 1904.