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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.
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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.
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The following year, he played for America on the Ryder Cup team; he scored 2.5 points as America won 14 1 ⁄ 2 to 13 1 ⁄ 2. He played on the 1985 team, which lost to Europe. In 1984, Peete won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average (70.56), albeit not without controversy. In the Heritage Classic, he withdrew after shooting a 41 on the ...
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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".